Holmey1

Sorted it, it was in the forum Integration menu, un-tick allow multiple loading of forum content if anybody else has the same problem.

Holmey

Didn’t quite come out right that, if you click on the highest regards you will see the look I’m looking for.

Holmey

It’s not just Chrome, both IE & Firefox lock you out too and the only way to get back in is by deleting your plugin via FTP and the problem that leaves you with is that every time you try to re-install it, it picks up your last settings and leaves you locked out so that you can’t change the settings to not force SSL on the admin panel.

How do I resolve this? Is the plugin totally broke now and I can’t use it on my site?

Regards,

Holmey

Hi Kyle,

Mingle uses the same database as your WordPress installation and you will find the details of this, (to complete the fields in the importer script), in your WP-config file, (in the root of your WP installation).

Hope that helps.

I’m currently managing 2 Simple Press installations, (https://socialwarriors.co.uk/forum/ & https://dwpexamination.org/ and have to say that I still find it one of the best forum plugins available for WordPress, (better than many stand alone forum platforms in fact), but like others have said, I just can’t get my teeth round now having to pay for support when, when I first started using the platform, it was free, I feel I was conned, especially when my original account on their support forum was deleted when they started charging.

Highest regards,

Holmey

It was and wasn’t straight forward, with me having to run the import scrip more than once, (and delete the installation each time and reinstall before I could try another import), as it missed some of the forums initially, but once it did it right it was fine.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the Simple Press forum platform, I think it’s one of the best available for not only WordPress, but as a forum platform in general, unparalleled for looks, ease of management, features and choice of themes, it was just maddening and to me goes against the whole principle of open source software that WordPress embraces not to give even basic or non prioritised support unless you pay, with my initial free membership of their support forum being blocked unless I paid a $29 fee for 2 months support and then to find that a rough update messed everything up, (which is what the problem was), and no support for this was available unless I paid, which had the odour of blackmail to me.

It was sorted out the following day though by a new update with a fix to the problem.

I’d understand it if I was managing the website that it affected for profit, if I was making an income from designing and managing websites I would not mind paying a reasonable amount either for the initial software or for support if I knew that is was going to be that way at the beginning, but the site is one that I administer for a disability group, with many of the members relying on the forum for both moral and practical support and due to being disabled not having the money to contribute to it’s income ??

Another thing, it appears that now you can now only get the basic forum platform free, with you having to pay for a support account before you can download any of the forum plugins that give it most of it’s brilliant functionality, (although these plugins will update through the WordPress depository), so the way it seems, unless you pay for the support, you are stuck with a basic forum with a lot of functionality missing.

Apart from the above, I don’t know of any converters that will convert your forum back to another platform if you do have problems that you can’t resolve, so you’ve had it, lost everything that has been posted on your new Simple Press forum if you decide to move on to another platform for any reason.

Regards,

Holmey

I’ve downloaded my current .HTACCESS file and when it happens again I’ll check to see if it’s changed.

Can you tell me what would be causing the .HTACCESS file to get corrupted please.

Best wishes,

Holmey1