Installing a Simple Press forum on WordPress
3 February 2009
Today I was asked by a client to add a forum to their website.
They currently have their website running on the WordPress CMS platform, so I started searching the WordPress plugins.
The only WordPress forum I came across was Simple Press, so I downloaded it all and installed it on the current website's web server.
I activated the plugin in the WordPress admin area and a "Forum" tab appeared in the navigation area
This I was really pleased about as I've never installed a plugin on WordPress before and didn't realise it was quite that easy.
Smile on my face I click on the tab to finish the setup process and the error comes up:
Your version of WordPress is not supported by Simple:Press Forum 4.0.1. WordPress version 2.5 or above is required
Agghhhhhh!
So I go searching through support forums, looking at how to upgrade WordPress, looked for other forum plugins for WordPress... And I was unsuccessful :(
In the end I left a thread on the Simple Press developers forum asking if there was a way around this problem, or whether there was an earlier version of the forum that would work on this version of WordPress.
Now I'm just awaiting the reply, which I'm hoping to be good news, otherwise that was a good 3 hours wasted.
Help me people!!!
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