Menu link in the forum work fine, but links to boards and messages all have "http://" hard coded, should be changed to just "//" to adopt sites protocol or use WP's root url value.

I'm sorry but I have no clue how this theme header cover an element with more z-index. You should ask this question to the theme developers. As an alternative you can use this CSS code to move pop-up messages to bottom to footer. Please navigate to Dashboard > Forums > Settings > Styles admin page and put one of these CSS codes in Custom CSS Code textarea, save it, delete all caches and do Ctrl+F5 forum front: 1. Move a little to bottom #wpf-msg-box { top: 90px!important;} 2. Move it to footer #wpf-msg-box { top:auto; bottom: 40px;}.wpf-msg-box-triangle-right.top:after { top:auto; bottom: -20px; right: 50px; left: auto; border-width: 0 20px 20px 0;}

Hi tokegameart, please specify which menu bar do you mean? The top/main menu or the subMenu of Profile page? The top main menu can be managed in Dashboard > Appearance > Menu admin page "wpForo Navigation" Menu. You can disable the top/main menu bar using according options in Forums > Settings > Features admin page:

Hi @tessashepperson, 1. In Forums > Usergroups admin page edit all Usergroups and enable/check the "Can pass moderation" permission. 2. In Forums > Tools > Antispam admin page set low suspicion level for topic and posts: Spam Suspicion Level for Topics - 10 Spam Suspicion Level for Posts - 10 Also, I'd recommend setting 1 or 2 the "User is New (under hard spam control) during first X posts" option in the same Forums > Tools > Antispam admin page. More information about wpForo spam control you can find here: Here is wpForo documentation, it is very easy and contains lots of screenshots. You can start here: You can find many Youtube videos as a tutorial too: The changelogs of a new release you can find here:

We've just released wpForo 1.9.4 version then 1.9.5. Lots of bugs are fixed. The core and AJAX functions are optimized. Important update notes Almost all JS files are changed, so it's important to delete all caches, purge optimizer plugin caches and CDN. Then you should reset your browser cache on forum front-end by pressing CTRL+F5. If your browser is Safari/Mac press [CMD] + [ALT] + [E] on forum frontend. If you have Minifier/Optimizer plugins please delete all caches after wpForo update. In case you have customized forum template files and found some issues, you should update them with the new 1.9.4 version of template files. Main Changes Option to locate editor toolbar When you write a long text in the topic editor you're getting far from the editor toolbar located on the top of the editor. So, each time you need to use it, you have to scroll up and click on the formatting buttons. We've added an option to move the editor toolbar from the top to bottom. Thus, it's always close to your writing area and makes it easy to use any formatting button without scrolling up and down. The option is located in Dashboard > Forums > Settings > Topics & Posts Tab. You can manage the toolbar location for topic and post editor separately. New permissions "Can enter..." for Forum Accesses The newly added "Can enter forum" and "Can enter topic" permissions don't allow entering users in forums or topics while letting them see the titles based on "Can view forum" and "Can view topic" permissions. In other words, you can show topic titles but don't let them enter and see posts. When a user clicks a topic link he/she see a message like "The level of your Usergroup is not appropriate" or "You need a higher level of permission to see the content". You can read this FAQ topic to see how wpForo Forum Accesses control user accesses to certain forum based on the user Usergroup: New Addon: wpForo Topic Prefix & Tag Manager This addon is actually designed to make going through the forums and finding threads with the similar content a lot easier. Topic prefixes can be used to filter forums and can be combined with a keyword search to help users find what they are looking for. In addition to lots of features, this addon allows you to add, edit, delete topic tags and convert them to prefixes. Addon page: New Addon: wpForo Syntax Highlighter This addon was released a bit earlier. We've adapted the code [</>] button for inserting codes in post editor without losing indents and tabs. So, this addon will work better with wpForo 1.9.4 version for sure. wpForo Syntax Highlighter addon displays formatted source code using the highlight.js JavaScript library in content of forum posts. This addon supports almost all programming languages including Apache, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, XML, JSON, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL, Basic, TypeScript, VB.NET with dozens of different syntax highlighting styles. Addon Page: Changelog: Added: Option to control toolbar location on topic/post editor (top/bottom) Added: Hook to enable multi-site signup functions for forum registration Added: Hook to control image auto-embedding in posts Added: New permissions in forum accesses `Can enter forum` and `Can enter topic` Added: Missing phrases to wpForo phrase system Added: Slovak(SK) and Arabic (AR) language translation files Updated: CZ, DK, ES, HU, JA, NL, TR language translation files Fixed Bug: Line-break issue with user Signature and About fields Fixed Bug: Redirect back after login on non-forum login pages Fixed Bug: Problem with AJAX powered buttons, concurrent requests are enabled Fixed Bug: Issue with Topic Starter label when guest posting is enabled Fixed Bug: Post likes problem in threaded layout when the Object Cache disabled Fixed Bug: Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: fclose() Fixed Bug: Google reCAPTCHA problem on native WordPress login / register pages Fixed Bug: Lots of small bugs are fixed and all AJAX functions are optimized

I have suggestions for better UI of threaded layout. 1. Modifying UI of threaded layout - Adding "Likes" row besides "Replies" row "Likes" row can let users know how much topics are popular and it can be extended to widget like WPdiscuz's widget does. 2. Widget Like Wpdiscuz widget, Tab1 - Most Liked Topic(except replies)-time frame-(1day, 1week, 1month) Tab2 - Most Commented Topic based on the number of replies-time frame-(1day, 1week, 1month) Tab3 - Most Trending Topic based on the view counts-time frame-(1day, 1week, 1month) Tab4- Most Liked Replies-time frame-(1day, 1week, 1month) 3. Modifying Replies UI: 1) Adding filters and search bar before replies so that users can search with ease when there are a lot of replies. Wpdiscuz does: 2) Remove reply's title - It does not helpful at all, and it prevents from exact search results. Like other forum plugins, reply's title is not necessary. Please remove reply's title entirely. 4. Modifying Search Features: 1) Advanced search option: - Add option to filter: "Search Topics' Title Only", "Search Topics' Body Only", "Search Topics Entire", "Search Replies' Only" and it would be great "Search Topics' Title Only" or "Search Topics Entire" as a default option. 2) Please select the current forum automatically, while searching, not entire forums: 3) "Sort Search Results by: Date" as a default option please, not relevancy first: 5. Move "Add topic" on the front page: In the front page, "Add topic" exists on the thread layout forum only. Move this button to the above forum category so that users can add a topic at any category, not only in the thread layout forum. 6. Make category have various layouts: Layout which inherit from parent category limit the style of forums. 7. Trivia things to fix 1) <div class="wpf-topic-visitors"> HTML block under the <div class="wpf-topic-navi"> is left even I turn off the "Current viewing" option. 2) When the main category has only one forum, "Forums" navigation is not required. 3) Like previous case, if there's one forum only, there's no necessary to select forum while adding a topic in the category layout. 4) I turned off the Subscription option from members, however, Subscription is left under the "My profile" tab and Buddypress tab. 5) There's no option to remove "Unread Posts": 6) Buddypress notification is not cleared(removed) after I clicked the notification regarding new replies on my topic. I hope you support those things for better UI and UX. Many many thanks for your great plugin. I cannot thank you enough. 5 stars just isn't enough 😀

Hello, I want to duplicate my major board into several others, (it has several forums underneath, I want to have these same forums underneath into the new Boards without creating each afresh), e.g: EXAMPLE:Main Board - General (with Forums: Shirt, Top, Shoe, Others) Duplicate - Men (with Forums: Shirt, Top, Shoe, Others) Duplicate - Women (with Forums: Shirt, Top, Shoe, Others) Duplicate - Teen (with Forums: Shirt, Top, Shoe, Others)   QUESTION: How do I duplicate the Main Board into other Boards?

Version that uses database and not rss, with Pagination / „Load More“ and avatars. Paste this at the end of your Theme "functions.php" The following code works only if you have "title url structure" activated. add_action('wp_ajax_get_latest_wpforo_posts', 'get_latest_wpforo_posts');add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_get_latest_wpforo_posts', 'get_latest_wpforo_posts'); function get_latest_wpforo_posts() {ob_clean();header('Content-Type: application/json'); if (!function_exists('WPF')) {echo json_encode(['error' => 'wpForo is not available.']);wp_die();} $offset = isset($_GET['offset']) ? intval($_GET['offset']) : 0;$limit = 10; $posts = WPF()->post->get_posts(['orderby' => 'created','order' => 'DESC','row_count' => $limit,'offset' => $offset,'status' => 0,]); if (!$posts || !is_array($posts)) {echo json_encode([]);wp_die();} $output = [];foreach ($posts as $post) {$author = wpforo_member($post['userid'] ?? 0)['display_name'] ?? 'Guest';$avatar = WPF()->member->get_avatar_url($post['userid'] ?? 0); $forum = WPF()->forum->get_forum($post['forumid']);$topic = WPF()->topic->get_topic($post['topicid']); $forum_slug = $forum['slug'] ?? '';$topic_slug = $topic['slug'] ?? ''; $link = home_url("/community/{$forum_slug}/{$topic_slug}/#post-{$post['postid']}"); $created = strtotime($post['created']);$now = time();$diff = $now - $created; if ($diff < 60) {$timeago = $diff . ' sec';} elseif ($diff < 3600) {$timeago = floor($diff / 60) . ' min';} elseif ($diff < 86400) {$timeago = floor($diff / 3600) . ' hours';} else {$timeago = floor($diff / 86400) . ' days';} $text = preg_replace('/\[quote.*?\](.*?)\[\/quote\]/is', '', $post['body'] ?? '');$excerpt = wp_trim_words(strip_tags($text), 25, '...'); $output[] = ['author' => $author,'avatar' => $avatar,'forum' => $forum['title'] ?? '','topic' => $topic['title'] ?? '','timeago' => $timeago,'excerpt' => $excerpt,'link' => $link,];} echo json_encode($output);wp_die();} Paste the following code in html widget where it should appear: <div id="wpforo-output-wrapper" style="text-align:center; margin: 40px auto; max-width: 800px;"><button id="load-wpforo-posts" style="padding: 12px 25px;font-size: 18px;cursor: pointer;background: linear-gradient(135deg, #4CAF50, #81C784);color: white;border: none;border-radius: 25px;transition: 0.3s;box-shadow: 0px 3px 8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);font-weight: bold;">🌿 Show Latest 10 Posts</button> <div id="wpforo-output" style="margin-top: 30px;"></div> <button id="load-more-wpforo-posts" style="display: none;padding: 10px 20px;margin-top: 15px;font-size: 16px;background: #4CAF50;color: white;border: none;border-radius: 20px;cursor: pointer;">⬇️ Load More Posts</button></div> <script>let offset = 0;const limit = 10; document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {const loadBtn = document.getElementById("load-wpforo-posts");const moreBtn = document.getElementById("load-more-wpforo-posts");const container = document.getElementById("wpforo-output"); loadBtn.addEventListener("click", function () {loadPosts();loadBtn.style.display = "none";moreBtn.style.display = "inline-block";}); moreBtn.addEventListener("click", function () {loadPosts();}); async function loadPosts() {try {const res = await fetch(`/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=get_latest_wpforo_posts&offset=${offset}`);const data = await res.json(); if (!Array.isArray(data) || data.length === 0) {moreBtn.style.display = "none";return;} data.forEach(post => {const postHtml = `<div style="display: flex;align-items: flex-start;gap: 15px;background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 20px;border-radius: 10px;box-shadow: 0px 4px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);border-left: 5px solid #4CAF50;"><img src="${post.avatar}" alt="Avatar" style="width: 48px;height: 48px;border-radius: 50%;object-fit: cover;flex-shrink: 0;"><div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; color: #333;">${post.author} <span style="font-size: 13px; color: #777;">– ${post.timeago} ago</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; color: #555; margin-top: 2px;">Forum: <strong>${post.forum}</strong> · Topic: <strong>${post.topic}</strong></div><div style="margin-top: 8px;"><a href="${post.link}" style="font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.5;color: #2E7D32;text-decoration: none;font-weight: 500;">${post.excerpt}</a></div></div></div>`;container.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', postHtml);}); offset += limit; if (data.length < limit) {moreBtn.style.display = "none";}} catch (err) {container.innerHTML += "<p style='color:red;'>❌ Error loading posts.</p>";console.error(err);}}});</script>

Hi there, I'm wondering if anyone has come up with a solution for some better forum stat reporting? I'm not seeing an add-on that will provide website admins with deeper statistics. I'd like to see some key things: Subscriber Count by Board Monthly New Subscriber Count Monthly Unsubscribe Count Monthly New Post Count by Board Top 10 Most Active Posts by View Count Top 10 Most Active Posts by Comment Count Top 10 Users by New Post Count Top 10 Users by Reply/Comment Count Topic Tag Frequency and Trending This is an internal board for our business, and using these stats it would help guide us internally toward areas of improvement by gauging where general interest and conversation is. Does something like this have to be custom-developed? Does the forum allow for a developer to get at numbers like these? Thanks,

Hi, I am getting a big 404 on the forum section of my WP site. Since I just moved the site from one domain to another and I also get the below quoted error in regards to REST API, I am wondering if this could be related to something in WPForo that I need to fix... TBH it also gives the same for all my pages and posts, but I am WAY more concerned about the forum. In the admin interface everything seems to be in place, in the database all posts are available. The root path on server was changed, but edited and corrected. This is the message I get from Site Health: The REST API is one way WordPress, and other applications, communicate with the server. One example is the block editor screen, which relies on this to display, and save, your posts and pages. The REST API call gave the following unexpected result: (404) <!DOCTYPE html> <html style="height:100%"> <head> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" > <title> 404 Not Found </title></head> <body style="color: #444; margin:0;font: normal 14px/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; height:100%; background-color: #fff;"> <div style="height:auto; min-height:100%; "> <div style="text-align: center; width:800px; margin-left: -400px; position:absolute; top: 30%; left:50%;"> <h1 style="margin:0; font-size:150px; line-height:150px; font-weight:bold;">404</h1> <h2 style="margin-top:20px;font-size: 30px;">Not Found </h2> <p>The resource requested could not be found on this server!</p> </div></div><div style="color:#f0f0f0; font-size:12px;margin:auto;padding:0px 30px 0px 30px;position:relative;clear:both;height:100px;margin-top:-101px;background-color:#474747;border-top: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.15);box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) inset;"> <br>Proudly powered by <a style="color:#fff;" href="http://www.litespeedtech.com/error-page">LiteSpeed Web Server</a><p>Please be advised that LiteSpeed Technologies Inc. is not a web hosting company and, as such, has no control over content found on this site.</p></div></body></html> .

Yes, its easy 🙂 For example: Wordpress theme: sparklingAnd CSS code that you need to paste in Wpforo dashboard #wpforo #wpforo-wrap { font-size: 13px; width: 100%; margin:0px;} */ Wordpress theme/*.post-inner-content {padding: 0;border: none;background-color: transparent;}body.archive .post-inner-content, body.blog .post-inner-content, .post-inner-content:first-child {border-top: none;} */ End Wordpress theme/* */WPforo styling/* #wpforo #wpforo-wrap {background: transparent;}#wpforo #wpforo-wrap .wpfl-2 .wpforo-forum {background-color: #ffffff;margin-top: 5px;border-radius: 5px;} #wpforo #wpforo-wrap .wpfl-2 .forum-wrap { border-top: none;}#wpforo #wpforo-wrap .wpfl-2 .wpforo-category {margin-top: 20px;} Sorry for my english 🙂

@sofy i know, this was just a soultion to the problem 😉 I updated the output a bit, here is the new version in english. Styling can be done at the beginning of the code via CSS. Make sure you change the 2 URLs to your forum ones:1. 2. <div id="rss-container-wrapper" style="display: none;"> <style> /* General styling for the container design */ #rss-container { display: none; margin-top: 20px; padding: 15px; background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); border-radius: 10px; color: #333; box-shadow: 0px 4px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border: 1px solid #ddd; } /* Button styling */ #load-button, .create-topic-button { display: block; margin: 15px auto; padding: 12px 25px; font-size: 18px; cursor: pointer; background: linear-gradient(135deg, #4CAF50, #81C784); color: white; border: none; border-radius: 25px; transition: 0.3s; box-shadow: 0px 3px 8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); text-align: center; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; } #load-button:hover, .create-topic-button:hover { background: linear-gradient(135deg, #43A047, #66BB6A); transform: scale(1.05); } /* Styling for posts */ #rss-feed { list-style: none; padding: 0; } #rss-feed li { background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); padding: 15px; margin-bottom: 12px; border-radius: 8px; transition: 0.3s; border-left: 5px solid #4CAF50; } #rss-feed li:hover { background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); transform: scale(1.02); } #rss-feed li a { font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; color: #388E3C; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s; } #rss-feed li a:hover { color: #2E7D32; } /* Post description */ .excerpt { font-size: 14px; color: #555; margin-top: 5px; } /* Additional info like author & time */ .meta { font-size: 12px; color: #777; margin-top: 5px; } </style> <button id="load-button">🌿 Show the 10 latest posts</button> <div class="container" id="rss-container"> <a href="https://YOURURL.TLD/community/add-topic/" class="create-topic-button">➕ Create a new topic</a> <ul id="rss-feed"></ul> </div> <script> document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () { const isLoggedIn = document.body.classList.contains("logged-in"); if (isLoggedIn) { document.getElementById("rss-container-wrapper").style.display = "block"; document.getElementById("load-button").addEventListener("click", function () { const rssContainer = document.getElementById("rss-container"); if (rssContainer.style.display === "none" || rssContainer.style.display === "") { this.textContent = "🌿 Hide posts"; rssContainer.style.display = "block"; fetchRSS(); } else { this.textContent = "🌿 Show the 10 latest posts"; rssContainer.style.display = "none"; } }); } }); async function fetchRSS() { const url = 'https://YOURURL.TLD/?type=rss2&forum=g&topic=g'; try { const response = await fetch(url); const text = await response.text(); const parser = new DOMParser(); const xml = parser.parseFromString(text, "text/xml"); const items = xml.querySelectorAll("item"); let html = ""; items.forEach((item, index) => { if (index < 10) { const title = item.querySelector("title").textContent; const link = item.querySelector("link").textContent; const date = new Date(item.querySelector("pubDate").textContent); const description = item.querySelector("description")?.textContent || "No preview available."; const author = item.querySelector("creator") ? item.querySelector("creator").textContent : "Unknown"; const now = Date.now(); const diffInSeconds = Math.floor((now - date) / 1000); let timeAgo = ""; if (diffInSeconds < 60) { timeAgo = `${diffInSeconds} sec.`; } else if (diffInSeconds < 3600) { const diffInMinutes = Math.floor(diffInSeconds / 60); timeAgo = `${diffInMinutes} min.`; } else if (diffInSeconds < 86400) { const diffInHours = Math.floor(diffInSeconds / 3600); timeAgo = `${diffInHours} hrs.`; } else { const diffInDays = Math.floor(diffInSeconds / 86400); timeAgo = `${diffInDays} d.`; } html += ` <li> <a href="${link}">${title}</a> <div class="meta">👤 By: <b>${author}</b> posted ${timeAgo} ago</div> <p class="excerpt">${description}</p> </li>`; } }); document.getElementById("rss-feed").innerHTML = html; } catch (error) { console.error("Error loading the RSS feed", error); document.getElementById("rss-feed").innerHTML = "❌ Error loading data."; } } </script> </div> Screenshots:

Hi, Please see: I've tried to make the UI as simple as possible & I've disabled the top menu bar in WpForo. Please see screenshot. I want to retain the search facility. But I'm finding that the only way to have "search" is to enable "Top Menu". Any way around this? Thanks. < span style="color: #666;"> Attachment : Screenshot-2018-11-23-at-2.32.30-pm.png

@Robert i have installed wpForo in my dev system, an empty Wordpress. Not a single change or plugin (apart from The Shield). See the problem clearly for guests.

@camilla, For some reason this option was set low priority in the out to-do list. We have more than a hundred things to do with this plugin. I'll move it up in top 10 for upcoming versions.