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Hi everyone
I am running simple-press 4.4.5 ( with wordpress 3.2.1) and would like to upgrade to Wp3.8 and latest of simple-press, Simple-press 5.X.
The upgrade link has mentioned upgrading from 4.5. For 4.4.5, Can I just remove the 4.4.5 folder and upload the latest folder?
I am planning to do the following after taking backup of folders and db.
1. Upgrade wp to 3.8 (using svn )
2. Remove the 'simple-forum' folder in current 4.4.5 and upload 5.4 's simple-press folder
3. Activate 5.4 (assuming 5.4 is latest).
Are these steps correct?
Any suggestions/pointers would really help before I go about this upgrade in my production setup.
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Mani.
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always tricky when coming this far back since there are wp compatibility issues... make sure to make db backups at each step...
first, upgrade to 4.5... see: http://codex.simple-press.com/.....-versions/
then upgrade wp to 3.8...
then upgrade to sp 5.4... see: http://codex.simple-press.com/.....rsion-4-5/
again, make db backups just to be safe...
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Thanks for the reply Mr Papa.
I have a question. I see in the list of previous versions, Version: 4.5.1 is closer to 4.5. So I downloaded that and in the read me file, it mentions it is for Wordpress 3.3+ only. Should I do an intermediate upgrade to 3.3 before I upgrade SP to 4.5?
My current WP is 3.2.1
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you should be able to upgrade to 4.5.1 on current wp (some stuff might not work but you just want to update the db)... then update WP to 3.8 and update SP to 5.4....
at least that is what I would try first... but again, make db backups along the way so if there is a problem, you can go back and try again like you said with interim wp...
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MrPapa,
Looks like there is a problem.
I got my wp upgraded to 3.3 (successful)
then upgraded SP to 4.5.1 ( successful)
then upgraded SP to 5.2.6 ( which also needs 3.3+) it said successful but then I visit the forum page
it says "
Then I realized that my wp-content folder was having all the files it should be with the new release 5.2.6. How do I move forward? Can I run the upgrade to 5.2.6 again to reinstall those missing files? mostly theme related?
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Mani
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So does this mean that your wp-content folder was not allowing new folders to be created? We try and create a folder called 'sp-resources' under 'wp-content'. Is that there and if so what folders are defined within it?
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thanks for the reply.
I see the following files now. The folder sp-resources that is displayed below is created me when I tried to remove the directory and did an activate again to see if the copy is attempted again.
index.php
upgrade
forum-media-uploads
forum-file-uploads
forum-badges
forum-avatar-pool
forum-policies
forum-avatars
forum-smileys
forum-image-uploads
uploads
themes
sp-resources
plugins
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Basically, when I realized that the sp-resources directory is not created, I deactivated and removed the simple-press directory and then installed it again and activated it. It didnt show the "Perform upgrade" button this time.
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