Forum Upgrade
13 posts by 8 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: June 16, 2016 (RSS)
Hi All,
We're planning to release our forum plugin soon, and we've upgraded this forum as part of our testing. Here is a breakdown of the new features:
- A Complete redesign. The forum now uses Bootstrap 3, which is responsive.
- Refactoring PHP code.
- Users can follow entire forums as well as threads.
- You can make users admins for particular threads.
- A setting that allows all admins to be emailed whenever a new post is created.
- A setting in the plugin to enable / disable signatures quickly.
- The original file name is displayed for files attached to posts.
Please let us know any feedback or suggestions you might have for our forum or a forum plugin.
Thanks!!
Greg
PHP Programmer - interactivetools.com
By Toledoh - February 24, 2016
Can we get a "Mark all as read" or similar? Maybe even a check-box selection to quickly mark a bunch of items?
Tim (toledoh.com.au)
Can't wait for this. Is there a more firm ETA on when it will arrive?
The new cleaner styling is so much better!
It would be great to have features like the ability to tag members, and members being able to upload links to videos on say you tube or vimeo and they would be embedded in the post
By depdesign - March 8, 2016
Any ETA for the forum to be available? I would like to begin offering it to my clients ASAP.
By Damon - March 9, 2016
Hi,
We are just doing final review and testing of the forum plugin. Expect to release it near the end of next week.
We will post an update to this thread when it is ready. Thanks!
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I, too, am very interested in this - we have a prospect right now that wants a forum, so I told my partner I'd check the status. Any updates would be great!!
By Damon - March 24, 2016 - edited: March 25, 2016
Hi,
The Simple Forum plugin has been released. See the feature list and screenshots here:
http://www.interactivetools.com/add-ons/simple-forum/
This is the same forum plugin we use for our site but with responsive Bootstrap templates.
Lots of behind the scene feature including:
SETTING UP THE SIMPLE FORUM:
- Upload Simple Forum plugin and activate from Admin > Plugins
- Includes Bootrap responsive templates. Edit the CSS to customize.
- Works with Membership add on manager user registration, login, reset password, customizable forum signature line.
- Set forum signatures to be updated via textbox or WYSIWYG editor.
- Signed in users can create new posts, reply to posts, edit previous posts and delete their own posts.
- Posts are Previewed before Postings or Updating.
- Editing posts includes an Edit History.
- Admin can Lock posts to prevent any further replies.
- Admin can make posts Stick to have them stay at the top of a forum.
TEMPLATES:
- Customizable responsive templates included based on Bootstrap.
- Built in Forum search engine. Search by keyword or search for posts by user.
- Forum automatically adds rel="nofollow" to all links added in posts to reduce spam and reduce user linking to sites that could negatively effect SEO.
- RSS feed for all forum content as well as separate RSS feeds for both forum sections and post threads.
- RSS feed for search results. Search in the forum, then click the RSS link to get the RSS feed for that search query.
SETTINGS:
- Setting to require users must login to view forum (login is always required to post).
- Setting to allow users to add polls to posts which users can vote on and display results.
- Setting to allow users to attach uploads to their posts.
- Setting to Auto-archive topics after set number of days. Archived topics can not be replied to.
- Setting to emails to admins when posts are created.
- Checkbox in CMS Builder to hide a forum and all posts within it.
- Users in CMS Builder can be assigned to Admin to any forum created. Admin for Forums checkbox appears in the User Accounts.
- Admin only visible link to view a list of any unchecked topics. Then mark topics as checked when replied to or resolved.
EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS:
- Email notification options: email replies to users, email all posts to admins, subscribe to topics and/or forums.
- Users can unsubscribe from email notification.
- Email templates can be customized from within CMS Builder.
See more here:
http://www.interactivetools.com/add-ons/simple-forum/
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By Damon - March 25, 2016
Hi,
Thanks for catching and reporting that.
Passed that along to Greg to update.
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I would love to start implementing this for my clients websites. I currently use proboards however so users are used to being able to tag members and embed video links from sites such as youtube.
If the forum software can't do this out of the box, is it possible to upgrade the forum so that it could, and if so how hard would it be?