Hello, To start off, im an extremely green newb when it comes to WP. Been a sys admin for over thirty years and built a couple of web sites but im really on a sever learning curve with this. Im trying to insert the wpforo latest posts on my frontpage but I cant seem to make it work with the NewsMash theme. No matter what way I try to insert into the home page, it keeps coming up in a column and not the page width. Ive tried making it a widget and then inserting it, I tried to edit a new template, I even got desperate that I tried using an ad inserter to put the code in and each time I end up making the site a mess. Can someone give me some pointers on doing this and make no assumptions I will know how to do everything so I can make this work? I would really appreciate it. Screen shot of the site attached. < span style="color: #666;"> Attachment :  utvspot.png

Here is what I envision. A developer, or one of the people here who are very familiar with the database structure here, would compose an SQL query that would do the following: Join the appropriate tables that would contain all the fields in the members list. Select all the users Display the fields that are in the members list, the sort doesn't matter, I'll do that in the csv or a spreadsheet. Execute that query and let me export that list to a csv. As a bonus, select all users more than 2 years since last login (or never) AND who have zero posts. For those users add them to the usergroup "Flagged". Execute that query and let me export that list to a csv. Then I can modify that query to delete all those users after I review in a spreadsheet. I would test this query in my mirror website before doing this in my main production website. For someone familiar with the database tables, and with SQL, this shouldn't be that difficult or even time-consuming. I understand SQL and phpmyadmin I just don't have a mind to write code. There is some implied context and knowledge, for example, there is no 'users' table with the 'wpforo' table prefix, so I assume it uses the Wordpress users tables (users and meta). But how is the wpforo ID related? IDK. How do you display the "Display Name", "Login", "Email"? And then display the wpforo info (I think) such as "Group", "Status", "Last Login", and "Forum Posts"? You have to 'join' the appropriate tables and I don't know all the relationships and contents (fields within the tables). This is the secret sauce that I need someone to figure out and build the SQL query. It should be relatively easy for someone familiar but impossible for a mere mortal like me. With tons of respect, Jerry in Houston, Texas

I don't see any option to export the members list. Can someone build an SQL query I can run in phpmyadmin to export the entire members list to a csv file? My goal is to review that list and modify the query to change the usergroup to "flagged" for any member who has not logged in within 2 years and has never posted. Once I have those in that usergroup, and do a final review, I would like to delete them all. Is this a reasonable approach to cleaning out old members?

I could not find a way to automatically close topics after a certain time period, so I'm suggesting the idea here. One way to help initiate discussions in a community forum is by encouraging new topics to be created by the users. New topics get more attention, especially if you are sharing new topics in various social media channels. In my experience running a forum since 2010, if a user adds a post to an old topic from years ago, it doesn't get the attention that a brand new topic on the same subject would generate. My suggestion would be to have settings for allowing topics to close after a specified time period. Even better, it would be great if that time period could be based upon the date of the last reply in the topic, rather than the original topic date. Perhaps there would be a secondary setting that would allow the admin to set the time period from the original topic date or the latest reply date. For example: let's say a topic is started today, 2025-08-01 and is followed by several replies over the course of a week or so. The last reply is posted on 2025-08-09. A couple of example scenarios could be: Set the auto-close date to 1 year after the original topic date. This would mean that the topic closes on 2026-08-01. Set the auto-close date to 1 year after the last reply date. This would mean that the topic closes on 2026-08-09. Using example scenario #2 above would allow the topic to prove its staleness for one year after the last reply, thus making it feasible to close it permanently. Thank you for your consideration! 😊

I have been using the standard Kadence Theme header on my site for a few years now. The wpForo links within the menu work great. But now I am wanting to use the Kadence Block Header that is build a bit different. I have it built on my staging site, but I am having problems with wpForo menu shortcodes for menu links. For instance on my current site using the old school theme menu, the login link (and other wpForo dynamic links) will properly populate the /%wpforo-login%/ dynamic link. So that link will look like this on the live site. But on my staging site in my attempt to use the Kadence Header Block instead of the standard menu, the /%wpforo-login%/ dynamic link does not populate and the link ends up looking like this. This obviously bring a user to a page that gives a 404 Bad Request error. So I thought I would start here and see if there is anything I can do on the wpForo side. Has anyone troubleshooted a Block Header vs a standard WP header? The Kadence Block Header allows much more customization vs the standard one which is why I would love to use it. Thoughts? Main site link: Stanging site link: More info on the Kadence Header Block

I am trying to create 2 separate forums for two completely separate membership levels. I need to embed each forum inside the page for each level as each one has it's own style and navigation menu. I have created the 2 forums and 2 different usergroups. I can get each forum to display for each level. BUT when you click any, and I do mean anything, from profile links to posts, you leave the member level styled page layout and go to the plain default forum style page (which in this case is pretty blank with minimal navigation). I tried using boards instead of forums but when you click on anything that way you go to a totally blank screen. Is what I am trying to do not possible with WPforo? If it is walk me through it like I am 5 years old. I have been fighting with this for a week. Do you need more info? Just ask. I am begging here. Please help me or tell me it can't be done.

Hello. I have a question, can anyone advise me what the problem could be. Something has changed on my forum, which I have been using for years, in the last 2 months. My opinion is that it must be something related to the update. I have the current version of Wpforo, and also WordPress (I think the WP Embeds addon is out of date, my license has expired, but that probably won't be the problem). The thing is that in the last 2 months, when creating a topic or adding a reply, it often happens that the post is doubled and the reply and topic are created twice. Also, after adding a reply, the forum takes a very long time to load, and I usually have to refresh the page to get it to load at all. At the same time, email notifications after adding replies to me, the administrator, and also to members, because some of them wrote to me. Thanks in advance for any tips or ideas.

Hi WPForo, Users are unable to attach PDFs in WPForo on my site even though they are part of the Registered usergroup, which, through Standard access, has the ability to upload files checked. I have searched through all of WPForo's settings, accesses, and usergroups without seeing anything about allowing PDF uploads. I ran into this problem a couple of years ago and had it solved through WPForo's Accesses and Usergroups pages, but those seem to have changed and now there is nowhere to see which file types are permitted for the usergroups. I have already tried checking the global setting on WP with the User Role Editor plugin, but there was no section for WPForo specifically. Can you please direct me on how to allow users to upload PDFs in WPForo specifically? The documentation on User Role Editor is not helpful in this regard as I need to allow for WPForo in particular. When I corrected this in the past, I did NOT have to change any global settings, only WPForo ones. Thanks!

Currently I am running a website that is only hosting a Simple Machines Forum. I want to migrate this to a Wordpress site with a forum attached to it. One of the main downsides of the SMF (and a highly requested feature to add!) is the lack of user friendliness in adding pictures to a post! The users have to add a picture as attachment and then other users can click on it to open it. In the best case a user knows how to upload a picture to some image website, get the URL from that and add the URL to the post. That way embedding the picture in the post. It would be really nice to have forum in which I can directly upload pictures, so they get inserted in the forum post. Or even better: drag and drop a picture from another app (in Android/iOS) or from Windows Explorer (in Windows) directly to the post. Yesterday, I did a search here on the forum and found posts of about round 2016. I cannot imagine this has not been added in almost 10 years of requesting it. What are my options here?