I'm looking at wpForo as an option to add a private, invite-only forum to our website and I can see it does most of what we'd need, but there are some things that I either can't seem to control or find the options for. Please could someone help me out with my list of questions?
- I turned off "Page Title" which successfully turned off the title of the forum showing. A bug to note, it can't be turned back on again for some reason even after definitely saving and flushing all caches.
The problem, though, is there were two titles, and the second one is still there, underneath the breadcrumbs. This is the text that becomes the post title (simple view) and needs to be there, but I don't want it on the home page.
In summary: I want to turn off the board title, I only have one board, and even categories are now redundant as I only need a very simple board. - Can we automatically subscribe people to forum activity summaries? I know we can subscribe people to their own posts by default, but the issue is we expect a very low activity board, and because it's a private board, people won't check it on a regular basis. I would like to be able to notify users periodically if there are new posts they haven't seen - otherwise they will forget to check and miss advertised opportunities. Not spammy instant notifications, just a weekly summary.
- Can we turn off member profiles? Or minimise their contents? Private messages would be useful and I can see there is an add-on for it, but I don't like the fact the profile page is full of the user's stats. We want a very subtle and private board, all these stats are unnecessary and even show information we don't want to have shared about people (for example it shows how many blog posts my account has, which is nothing to do with the forum anyway). I don't just mean the navigation item, I know it can be removed from the menu, but you can still click onto a profile through a post and see all this stuff.
- I know I can amend items on the menu, but how can I change the alignment so the items are aligned to the right? Also, why does the menu disappear when you visit a user profile?
- In the member profile settings I can change the default profile cover image, why is there no option to change the default avatar?
- When you turn off topic statistics and overview, it leaves too much white space between the title and the first post.
- Is it possible to configure separate SMTP information from the rest of WordPress? Our forum emails are being handled by the same email handler that does our marketing contact form and we need separation for the email address and mailbox from name, otherwise it will cause confusion. The email settings "From name" and "From email address" are not currently being respected.
Hi,
In summary: I want to turn off the board title, I only have one board, and even categories are now redundant as I only need a very simple board.
Please check out this documentation: https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/settings/display-components/#show-forum-page-title
Additionally, check out this support topic the same question is discussed there: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-title-43/
Can we automatically subscribe people to forum activity summaries? I know we can subscribe people to their own posts by default, but the issue is we expect a very low activity board, and because it's a private board, people won't check it on a regular basis. I would like to be able to notify users periodically if there are new posts they haven't seen - otherwise they will forget to check and miss advertised opportunities. Not spammy instant notifications, just a weekly summary.
Please read my answer here: https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/user-automatically-subscribes/#post-116260
Can we turn off member profiles? Or minimise their contents? Private messages would be useful and I can see there is an add-on for it, but I don't like the fact the profile page is full of the user's stats. We want a very subtle and private board, all these stats are unnecessary and even show information we don't want to have shared about people (for example it shows how many blog posts my account has, which is nothing to do with the forum anyway). I don't just mean the navigation item, I know it can be removed from the menu, but you can still click onto a profile through a post and see all this stuff.
Use the permissions shown on the screenshot bellow. This method can be used to hide members for certain usergroups. In that example you can hide members for Guest Usergroup.
Also, you can hide all members of certain usergroup for all users, and remove from the members page using the "Display on Members List" option in edit Usergroup screen.
And the last way, is just removing the Members Menu from the forum menu. Forum menu is a simple WordPress menu. Here is the doc: https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/getting-started/wpforo-menu/
I know I can amend items on the menu, but how can I change the alignment so the items are aligned to the right? Also, why does the menu disappear when you visit a user profile?
Please provide the URL where we can see the issue.
In the member profile settings I can change the default profile cover image, why is there no option to change the default avatar?
You can choose one of WordPress avatars for users in the Dashboard > Settings > Discussions admin page.
When you turn off topic statistics and overview, it leaves too much white space between the title and the first post.
If you provide us the URL we'll provide the CSS solution for you,
Is it possible to configure separate SMTP information from the rest of WordPress? Our forum emails are being handled by the same email handler that does our marketing contact form and we need separation for the email address and mailbox from name, otherwise it will cause confusion. The email settings "From name" and "From email address" are not currently being respected.
wpForo emails is based on WordPress email sending functions, so you just need to install and configure WP Mail SMTP for your WordPress website.
