Database Errors on Install/Upgrade:

A few people have had problems installing or upgrading Simple Forum version 2 and have seen it fail to create and alter tables. I shall explain!

As from WordPress 2.2, the WP team decided that in future, the WP database would be created with a default ‘charset’ of utf-8. if you don’t know what that is no matter - but consider it a good thing! In keeping with this new standard, I set the new tables required for Simple Forum to also be utf-8. However, it appears that some older version of MySQL, still out there on hosts unwilling to upgrade, do not like this instruction and fail to create the tables. My apologies for this - I had no idea this was the case.

To remedy this, I have added to the plugin page a separate download of the install and upgrade scripts. if you see this problem then please download the zip and overwrite the two files in your simple-forum plugin folder with these replacements. All should then be well.

Other Bugs and Problems:

As errors come to light that are important enough to warrant a fix, I will do two things. I will update the main zip download with the fix so that anyone taking the plugin after discovery will not be effected. I will also add to the error patch that is available for download so that existing users can also take the patch and error fix. I will also add a topic to the Simple Forum V2 announcement thread detailing the nature of the found error.

Hopefully that will keep users up to date.