May 07, 2015

WP Forum Server Plugin

This Wordpress plugin is a complete forum system for your wordpress blog.

WP Forum Server : A complete forum system for your wordpress blog.
The forum is a plugin, so no additional work is needed to integrate it into your site.

WP Forum Server is a an advanced, stable fork of WP Forum.

If there are any problems installing this plugin
please visit the site at http://forumpress.org/
and download the plugin from there.

If you want to show off your forum please
visit: http://forumpress.org/support/forumpress-g5/forum-server-1.4-and-previous-archive-f19
and leave a link to your site.

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

Upload forum-server folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Make a new page to place your forum into. Make sure you have it on the HTML editor.
Simply place the tag  or [forumServer] in the new page content area.

Please visit http://forumpress.org/ for usage instructions.

Complete Installation Instructions: http://forumpress.org/installation-setup

For a complete demo visit http://forumpress.org/support/

Screenshots

Choose a forum skin.
The home page for the forum options.
About the forum page.

FAQ

Do you have a demo?

Yes- it’s located here: http://forumpress.org/support

The file from WordPress.org does not work

Go to http://forumpress.org/
and download from there.

Is there a gallery i can see other people using the plugin?

http://forumpress.org/support/forumpress-g5/forum-server-1.4-and-previous-archive-f19

How do I translate interface in another language?

To make a translation of any wp plugin use this plugin
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codestyling-localization/

When the .mo file is ready:

Prefix the .mo file with “vasthtml-“, for example: vasthtml-en_EN.mo.
Copy this file to /wp-content/plugins/forum-server/languages/
Go to Admin > WP Forum Server > General Options and choose your language

Also you can add description to your translate file: create file vasthtml-en_EN.txt with short description and put it info language directory.

May I recommend some new features?

Yes please do. http://vasthtml.com/support/?vasthtmlaction=viewtopic&t=20.0

Where can I get support?

In the support forums on Vast HTML: http://forumpress.org/support

Changelog

1.8.2

updating version number

1.8

SEO-friendly clean URLs added

1.7.5

fixing harmless “exploits”

1.7.4

fixing harmless “exploits”

1.7.3

minor changes to fix version

1.7.2

restored missing files from SVN

1.7.1

wpf-insert.php injection vulnerability fixed

1.7

Added automatically create forum page and example content

1.6.9

Fixed bug: modules loading errors

1.6.8

Fixed bug: SEO-friendly URLs in PRO-version
Fixed bug: dropdown select in admin moderators and users
Fixed bug: subject encoding in topic reply
Added “Upgrade to Pro” links

1.6.7

Fixed bug with wordpress html editor in admin

1.6.6

Fixed major security bug with RSS feed
Fixed BBCodes php errors on some of installation
Names of users on forum now displays the same as throughout wordpress ( using ‘Display name’ instead of ‘user name’ )
Improved usabiity of changing languages. Now available through wordpress admin panel in a simple way

1.6.5

Fixed bug: warning php message

1.6.4

Fixed bug: duplicate topic forms
Fixed bug: default encoding in database tables changed to UTF-8
Fixed bug: parsing ‘$’ character
Fixed bug: width for posts with embedded video or code listings
Fixed bug: login form when wordpress is installed in it’s own directory (not in root folder)
Fixed bug: ‘show new posts since last visit’ feature
Fixed bug: links to posts in RSS feed
Fixed bug: database error when deleting forum
Fixed bug: interface of adding users to users’ groups

1.6.3

Fixed bug: Fix icon for my hot topics
Fixed bug: Fix minimize forum header button
Fixed bug: Fix deleting single post in topic
Fixed bug: Fix deleting category when there’s some topics in it
Fixed bug: Fix redirect after posting in topic on non first page
Fixed bug: Fix checking user_level for sticky post function
Fixed forum related errors (undefined variables) with debug-mode enabled

1.6.2

Fixed bug: Incorrect formatting in replies subject for topics and posts containing apostrophes
Fixed bug: Disallow ability to modify guest posts by other guests
Fixed bug: Fix the topic links in the rss feed and email-notifications
Added line breaks in post/answer body for better text formatting

1.6

Fixed bug: Duplicate launch of plugin with sfc-like plugin
Fixed bug: Fix youtube video insertion (allow html embed object)
Was added support SEO-frendly URLs

1.5.2

Fixed bug: Duplicate launch of plugin on certain themes and WordPress installations
Fixed bug: Localization support on WordPress 3.0+
Fixed bug: Javascript error when using “Show or hide header” feature on certain Forum Server skins

1.5.1

Fixed bug: Path problems if wordpress is in subdirectory

1.5

Fixed bug: Incompatibility with FireStats plugin and possibly certain other plugins, the bug also could cause a lot of database errors
Fixed bug: Duplicating topics due to plugin incompatibility with certain plugins
Fixed bug: No post body inside the topic due to plugin incompatibility with certain plugins
Fixed bug: BBCode content inside e-mail notifications
Fixed bug: Closing a topic didn’t work as expected
Fixed bug: sending e-mail notifications of your own replies when subscribed on topic
Fixed bug: When subscribing to replies on topic, a blank screen was showing up
“Unmake sticky” renamed to “Unstick” (for sticky topics)
Fixed bug: Unstick function now works
Fixed bug: search system now works
Improved search system, now it searches in topic titles and can search in both titles and content
Fixed bug: Email notifications were not sent in some cases
New placeholder for inserting forum into WordPress page: [forumServer] can be used instead of

1.4

Added admin ability to close a topic
Added admin ability to move a topic
Fixed bug with message width on narrow theme column
Fixed bug with Google Analytics hiding message textarea
Fixed bug when user manually changes url parameters

1.3

The link to edit categories now works.
Made a work around for those having trouble deleting categories.

1.2

Link to FORUM in Breadcrumb
Group Link and Group Page
Fixed the blank page redirection stuff

1.1

Fixed database errors

1.0

Code clean up
Changed menu style to match WordPress 2.7+
Changed all images to a more updated look