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Upgrading from 4.5 to 5 beta

DO doctorb
doctorb
Member

I downloaded SP5 beta but can’t find any guidelines how to update from 4.5 to 5 beta. Can someone tell me how to run the update?

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DO doctorb
doctorb
Member

Sorry, just found out that this is the default theme for 5 beta. Excellent work!

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

thanks!

there are several topics in the beta forum on this but since our docs are not updated yet, can run through it again…

first, you must have wp 3.3

make a db backup just to be safe

remove the simple-forum directory – take care to save any custom icons

upload the new simple-press directory and contents to plugins folder

activate the plugin (name changed so you will have to activate again)

run the sp plugin upgrade

all set…

DO doctorb
doctorb
Member

Alright. Found out that I need to install Tinymce as a plugin now.

 

But still cant find the option to increase the base font size.

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

let’s take one thing at a time.
TinyMCE is now a plugin so did you also download any of the SP plugins and upload them to the new forum-plugins folder? Once uploaded you will also need to activate whatever ones you want.

DO doctorb
doctorb
Member

Yes, I uploaded and activated and made it the default editor but it shows some conflict. Doesn’t load and now the emoticons also don’t work after enabling tinymce. 🙁

DO doctorb
doctorb
Member

I was able to resolve these issues. They were being caused by JS compression.

 

Thank you for the wonderful forum software and very helpful team here.

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

Good to know. It’s a personal view but in my opinion compression tools that work on the scripts being loaded are a waste of space and time. Most of the scripts that WP uses are compressed anyway and when SP comes out of beta all SP scripts capable of being compressed will be.