better to open a new thread than hijack a resolved topic for something different…  have moved to its own topic…

can you explain further? what version of wp, sp and pm plugin??

WP:4.6.4 

SP:5.7.4 Build: 14760

PM:2.4.3

so first, SP 5.7+ requires WP version 4.7+…  so you could be having some issues from that incompatibility…  also possible you dont use the WP/SP code where the incompatibility lies and wont notice…  thanks for versions..

as asked in post #2, could you please expand on the problem?  not sure what you meant by update permalink trick…

I have updated WP and SP to latest version
error log: file: /simple-press/sp-startup/site/sp-site-deprecated.php
line: 54
function: trigger_error
User Warning | The function sp_forum_api_support() has been deprecated and will be removed in a future update. Use the new function sp_forum_ajax_support() instead.

When I made the recommended switch, the site crashed

this what the current file says at line 54:

# ———————————————-

# sp_forum_api_support()

# Deprecated 5.7

# User sp_forum_ajax_support()

# ———————————————-

function sp_forum_ajax_support() {
     trigger_error(‘The function sp_forum_api_support() has been deprecated and will be removed in      a future update. Use the new function sp_forum_ajax_support() instead.’, E_USER_WARNING);
    return sp_forum_ajax_support();

}

Firsr tou should show php errors like that on a production site.

Looks likw you might have an SP plugin that is not up to date. Please check and see.

All SP plugins are up to date, still not working. This is only other error I’m seeing, could this be the issue?

If everything is now up to date then there should be no more depracated function messages.

so what is that third party script that is not loading? Might not be the cause but we need to clear up errors in scripts to enable a ‘clean’ diagnostic to take place…