Hi all,

I am running wordpress 2.9.2 with some custom content types and a few other plugins.  I am running on a linux, apache, mysql, php webhost. I desired to upgrade to the latest legacy version, 1.2.13, but Wordpress does not have the upgrade link in the Plugins section. 

First of all, I backed up the plugins folder, just in case I overwrote something and broke my plugins.  That way, I could restore to a known good working plugin.

I attempted to use the Plugin > Add New, upload the ZIP file and click install.  Unfortunately, the upload failed with an error of "Destination folder already exists" blah, blah, blah….

So, I followed the readme.txt instructions to manually install by extracting the file role-scoper_1.2.13.zip to my 'wp-content\plugins' folder.  It automatically extracted to the 'role-scoper' folder.  I started to examine the changed options and features, but when I clicked 'Role Groups' from left panel, I received a PHP error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')' in /home2/knottlab/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/role-scoper/admin/groups-support.php on line 271

I tried to get this to work with v 1.2.11, then 1.2.9, and finally it worked with v 1.2

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

Michael

After backing up my "role-scoper folder" within "wp-content\plugins" folder,  I downloaded the corrected version 1.2.15 you mentioned.  After manually installing by extracting  , I tested it out.  It looks like the Edit Form for both Posts & Pages loses the following Role Selection Boxes: "Readers", "Contributors" & "Editors".

At first I thought I upgraded incorrectly, so I restored v 1.1.7.  I verified that I could use the 3Role Selection Boxes for Posts and Pages

Then I deactivated role scoper, manually extracted v 1.2.15, reactivated Role scoper, verified the version listed in the PLUGINS menu, then edited a Post and a Page.  The 3 Role Selection Boxes were gone.

I tested the following versions, 1.2.15, 1.2.16, 1.2-beta1, all of which broke the Role Selection Boxes.  When I tried version 1.1.8-devD, it worked, but I'd rather not use an older development version.  I did all tests under an Administrator account, so most of the Role Scoper features would not restrict the Wordpress capabilities.

So, I am stuck using 1.1.7 until I can find an upgrade path that works.