You can not add plugins via the WP add plugin from zip option. You can update them once they are installed but not install them. Please see here for details: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/using-plugins/

Oh… well that would explain a lot. So I did plenty of reading and after downloading filezilla, accessing the site through the FTP connection, copying all of the plugins to the correct directory (I followed this step by step http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/using-plugins/) and getting all the way to the end I’m still not seeing any plugins in the simplepress plugin section. Does it just take a while for the files to appear or am I missing something? I swear I’ve got everything looking exactly as the link above shows.

I’m having the same problem as you. I have everything set up, plug-ins uploaded to the identified folder, but can’t find out where to “activate” them from.

I also have the plugins loaded into the correct folder – via FTP – but when I go to SP Available Plugins, they do not appear. ?? Thank you in advance for any advice you have for us. Joe.

Nevermind. I figured it out. (I had uploaded them to the correct folder, etc. as a zipped file. But I had not unzipped them. Once I unzipped them, they appeared as available plugins in SP.)

okay cool – good hunting… thanks for the update.

joebfrank1 said
Nevermind. I figured it out. (I had uploaded them to the correct folder, etc. as a zipped file. But I had not unzipped them. Once I unzipped them, they appeared as available plugins in SP.)

OMG YOU ARE A GENIOUS!!!! I hadn’t done that yet.. and once I did everything worked perfectly. Thank you guys for the support 🙂

One last quick question… which plugin is it that allows the display of (Bold, Italic, Underline , Bulletin, Numbered Bulletin, Block Quote, Indent, etc… etc… etc… ) That I see when I’m writing this? I thought it was the Image and File Uploader Plugin but I’ve got that uploaded and I still don’t have that bar above.

Ok that’s not my problem, i have them unzipped .. I can’t seem to find the Simple:Press setup program. I don’t have the ability to activate / de-activate plugins or install / uninstall them.

Curtis B: you need the tinyMCE SP plugin.

rcarrollct: Are you saying you have no ‘Plugins’ menu item in the SP forum admin menu?

No plugins menu to be found.. 

Which sub-section would it be found under? I have:

Forums

Options

Components

Profiles

User Groups

Permissions

Admins

Users

Toolbox

Integration

and confirmed im in Simple:Press 5

From environment / toolbox

Version 5.0.1

Build 8048

WP – 3.3.1

it would be its own section… are you the sp admin you upgraded to or installed 5.0?  if not, you may need to go to forum – admins – manage admins and add the manage plugins and manage themes capability to your user…

AH HA !!! That was the problem.. resolved now.. thank you.. for some reason I had full admin priveledges just not those two.

okay, cool… thanks for the update…