You need to initially install SP plugins using ftp just like you had to with core WordPress. Once installed they will be updated via the Wp update tools.

Hi I’ve just downloaded simple-press-5.0.0-7960 . I’m running WordPress 3.3.1.

I first tried to up-load and activate thbe plug-in – but got the “Invalid Header” error (as above).

After reading this thread I unpacked the zip file and ftp’d it onto my site and then tried to activate it – I then get the folowing error

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare sp_get_option() (previously declared in /problem-with-post-edit-buttonome/umcollab/public_html/walk/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/lib/template-tags-deprecated.php:236) in /problem-with-post-edit-buttonome/umcollab/public_html/walk/wp-content/plugins/simple-press/sp-api/sp-api-primitives.php on line 91

any sugestions appreciated.

Kirby

thank you, Yellow Swordfish

np. glad we could help.

… tried removing all Simple Press files and re-installing – get same error on activation … 

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare sp_get_option() (previously declared in /problem-with-post-edit-buttonome/umcollab/public_html/walk/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/lib/template-tags-deprecated.php:236) in /problem-with-post-edit-buttonome/umcollab/public_html/walk/wp-content/plugins/simple-press/sp-api/sp-api-primitives.php on line 91

presumably this is some conflict with “the events calendar” plugin – is there a way of preventing this?

I’ve jjust discovered anotherf thread which confirms my suspicions …

http://support.makedesignnotwar.com/discussion/30/fatal-error%3A-sp_get_option

two plugins are using the same function name – sp_get_option()  – presumably I can rename this in one of the plugin’s code – but is there a more elegant solution?

it is rare but it can happen of course.
What is aid on the other thread – and nobody seemed to take any notice – was that the message says the file in question is ‘template-tags-deprecated.php’ which means old and should no longer be used. So if you are not using the can they not be removed or renamed?

Hello I get following error in wp

Simple:Press can not create sub-folders under wp-content. Please assign correct permissions and re-run the install

what do I need to do?
please help

You will need to set the correct permissions on and under the WP wp-content folder on your server. if you do not know how to do that then ti would be best to ask your host support to do it for you.

If it helps anyone else – i.e. the conflict between “Simple Press” and “The Events Calendar” I commented out the folowing lines in the file   …./the-events-calendar/lib/template-tags-deprecated.php  and it works fine!

//            function sp_get_option($optionName, $default = ”) {

//                            _deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, ‘2.0’, ‘tribe_get_option()’ );

//                            return tribe_get_option($optionName, $default);

//            }

thanks for the tip!