wpForo 3.1 comes with better performance and posting speed. Lots of bugs have been fixed along with security issues. Added new tabs in wpForo > Tools admin page for Email Queue and Cron Job monitoring.

3.1.1 Changes

• Security: Fixed Broken Authentication vulnerability allowing administrator email mutation
• Security: Fixed PHP Object Injection vulnerability via widget AJAX handlers

3.1.0 Changes

• Compatibility: WordPress 7.0
• Security: Fixed vulnerability issue in the Revisions module
• Security: Fixed vulnerability issue in Gutenberg block renderers
• New: Tools – Email Queue Tab, email notifications now sent asynchronously with automatic fallback to direct sending when WP-Cron is broken or disabled, dramatically reducing post-submission delays on busy forums
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• New: Tools – Cron Jobs Tab, listing every WordPress scheduled event with per-row Run Now / Delete / Details, wpForo events sorted to the top
  
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• Fixed: Duplicate email notifications could be sent for posts that pass moderation
• Fixed: Duplicate topic view counts could be recorded for the same user
• Fixed: Processing spinner could remain visible after indexing completed
• Fixed: Email Queue admin tab now shows “Cron idle” instead of “unknown” when there are no emails to send
• AI New: Custom Knowledge – upload TXT, MD, JSON, and PDF files (Business+ plan) to enhance AI Chatbot and Bot Reply with your own documentation
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• AI New: Custom Knowledge – scanned/image-only PDFs auto-fall back to OCR when native text is sparse
• AI New: Custom Knowledge integrated into AI Chatbot, and AI Topic Suggestions
• AI Improved: AI cron jobs are now only registered when a tenant is connected to the AI service, preventing stale wp_cron entries on installs that do not use AI features

The first Stable Version 3.0.0 is released!

We are excited to announce wpForo 3.0 AI Edition - a major new version that represents a complete reimagining of the wpForo forum plugin. This is the biggest update we have ever released, introducing 360-degree AI-powered features, a well refreshed modern theme with five forum layouts, and dozens of improvements across the board.

What's New in wpForo 3.0

"What's New" Page

Timeline-based activity feed showing all forum actions: new topics, replies, likes, dislikes, votes, reactions, favorites, solved/closed topics, and more.

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New Theme with 5 Modern Layouts

wpForo 3.0 introduces a redesigned forum theme with a modern 2026 design. All layouts have been refreshed:

1. Extended Layout — The traditional forum layout with rich topic previews, latest post snippets, and comprehensive metadata.
2. Simplified Layout — Streamlined, modern layout with clean aesthetics, prominent user avatars, and focused content.
3. Q&A Layout — Professional question-and-answer format with voting system, accepted answers, and reputation points.
4. Threaded Layout — Hierarchical discussion format for in-depth conversations with nested replies.
5. Boxed Layout (NEW) — A brand new card-based forum experience with a clean, modern look.

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https://wpforo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wpForo-3-Members-Page-small.png

https://wpforo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wpForo-Members-Profile-Page.png

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360° AI-Powered Features with gVectors AI

wpForo 3.0 comes with a full suite of AI features powered by gVectors AI infrastructure.

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AI Semantic Solutions

• AI Semantic Search — Understands what users mean, not just what they type. Finds relevant discussions even with different wording, typos, or synonyms. Includes AI-powered search result summaries.
• AI Topic Summarization — Instant AI-generated summaries of long forum discussions. Helps members quickly understand key points without reading hundreds of replies.
• AI Topic Suggestions — Analyzes what members type in real-time and recommends similar existing discussions and potential answers. Significantly reduces duplicate posts.
• AI Multi-Language Translation — Automatic real-time translation supporting 100+ languages. Each user sees and posts content in their own language.
• AI Chat Assistant — 24/7 intelligent assistant that provides instant answers based on indexed forum discussions. Learns from your forum's knowledge base.
• AI Bot Reply & Suggest Reply — Generate AI-powered replies with a single click. Moderators can trigger bot replies from any post, or use Suggest Reply to get drafts directly in the editor.

AI Content Moderation

• Spam Detection — AI-powered spam protection with very high detection rate.
• Toxic Content Detection — Automatically identifies and flags toxic behavior, harassment, and inappropriate content.
• Policy & Rule Compliance — AI checks all new content against your forum's custom rules and policies.

AI Tasks — Automated Forum Management

• Automated Topic Generation — AI searches for trending news related to your community and creates timely, relevant topics with configurable frequency and content rules.
• Automated Reply Generation — AI monitors unanswered topics and automatically posts helpful responses through bot users. Configurable reply frequency and tone.
• Automated Topic Tag Moderation — Complete AI-powered tag management: auto-generates relevant tags, removes outdated ones, and maintains consistent vocabulary.

AI Analytics & Insights

• Forum Activity metrics and Content Performance tracking
• User Engagement and member retention insights
• AI Usage Statistics to monitor feature adoption
• AI-generated growth recommendations and insights
• AI Service and Credits management dashboard

AI Knowledge Generation (RAG)

• Content Indexing of forum discussions, posts, images, and WordPress content
• Vector Storage with cloud and local options on AWS infrastructure
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) enabling AI that truly understands your forum's domain

Important update notes

• After the update, please delete all caches and purge CDN if you have.
• After the update, please flush Redis Object Cache if you have this cache enabled

2.4.17 Changes

• Security: Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Deletion

2.4.16 Changes

• Security: Added permission checks for post approve/unapprove actions
• Security: Added permission checks for topic close/open actions
• Security: Added permission checks for topic move, merge, and split actions
• Security: Added capability check for role synchronization
• Security: Fixed RSS feed exposing private and unapproved content
• Security: Fixed stored XSS via forum description output
• Security: Blocked SVG file uploads in avatar to prevent XSS
• Security: Replaced json_encode with wp_json_encode to prevent script injection

2.4.15 Changes

• Security: Vulnerability – Unauthenticated Time-Based SQL Injection

2.4.14 Changes

• Security: Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection

2.4.13 Changes

• Security: Vulnerability Unauthenticated SQL Injection

2.4.12 Changes

• Compatibility: PHP 8.5
• Compatibility: WordPress 6.9
• Security: Vulnerability Unauthenticated SQL Injection
• Fixed Bug: Multi-language integration issues with Polylang

2.4.11 Changes

• Security: Vulnerability Unauthenticated Attacker to Post Revisions

2.4.10 Changes

• Security: Vulnerability Authenticated (Susbscriber+) SQL Injection
• Fixed Bug: PHP Error: array_filter(): Argument #1 ($array) must be of type array, string given in classes/Members.php:2032

2.4.9 Changes

• Security: Unauthenticated SQL Injection
• Security: Object unserialize code injection

2.4.8 Changes

• Added: New option in widgets to sort topics/posts randomly
• Fixed Bug: Post editor text/object alignment issue

2.4.7 Changes

• Cleared: Unnecessary profile buttons of guest posters
• Cleared: HTML tags from category description
• Security: Fixed IDOR vulnerability, Insecure Direct Object References
• Addon Support: Supports displaying voters on poll result
• Addon Support: The rich editor is modified to allow aligning gif and inline attachments
• Fixed Bug: PHP Error on the activation process of a user registration.

  Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: array_intersect(): Argument #1 ($array) must be of type array, null given in /wp-content/plugins/wpforo/includes/hooks.php:37

• Fixed Bug: Missing user information in the admin email when user deletes own account

2.4.6 Changes

• Security: Fixed XSS vulnerability, Stored Cross-Site Scripting
• Hooks: Hooks to manage the email sending test and error report in the tools:

  • $send_to = apply_filters( 'wpforo_check_wp_mail_send_to', "test@example.com" );
    $check_mail = apply_filters( 'wpforo_check_wp_mail', false );

• Fixed Bug: Text domain loading issue
• Fixed Bug: Link RSS Module and RSS Settings to disable if the module is disabled
• Fixed Bug: PHP Warning: Undefined array key max-number-value when wpForo is integrated with Profile Builder plugin.

2.4.5 Changes

• Fixed Bug: Q&A forum layout threads issue on mobile devices
• Fixed Bug: Warning: Trying to access array offset on null in ../functions-template.php
• Fixed Bug: Missing field 'url' (in 'author') with DiscussionForumPosting structured data
• Fixed Bug: Missing field 'name' (in 'comment.author') with DiscussionForumPosting structured data

2.4.4 Changes

• Fixed Bug: Structured data problem with empty posts. Parsing error: Missing ‘}’ or object member name.
• Note: If you receive email from Google with "New Discussion forum structured data issues detected" title and ‘Either "text", "image", or "video" should be specified (in "comment")’, issue, please deactivate wpForo (do not Uninstall) then delete the plugin and install it again. This will not affect any data, this will install the latest changes of wpForo plugin.

2.4.3 Changes

• Added: Discussion forum (DiscussionForumPosting) structured data for Google Search
• Security: Fixed issue with manipulation and privilege escalation via hidden parameter
• Fixed Bug: BuddyPress Integration problems related to deprecated functions
• Fixed Bug: False positive spam file detection and notification in the dashboard
• Fixed Bug: Problems related to PHP 8.4
• Fixed Bug: Issues with saving antispam settings
• Fixed Bug: More robust solution for "Arbitrary File Reading" problem by changing wp_remote_get() function to wp_safe_remote_get()

2.4.2 Changes

• Security: Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read in update
• Fixed Bug: In some cases user couldn't see own private topics
• Fixed Bug: Problem with topic slugs containing negative number (-1234)
• Fixed Bug: Issue with x.com URL in users profile pages
• Fixed Bug: Forum tree displaying issue related the secondary user-groups cache

2.4.1 Changes

• Compatibility: WordPress 6.7
• Added: Request confirmation before deleting the account
• Added: Email notification to admins when users delete their account

2.4.0 Changes

• Added: Export and Import of settings. Allows you to export and import different groups of settings separately.
• Added: Automatically change a post status to unapproved when an eligible user reports it.
• Added: reCAPTCHA to the form in stand-alone topic creation page (/add-topic/)
• SEO Optimization: Prevent indexing dynamic URLs with get parameters for when page is generated after selecting options in dropdown menus.
• SEO Optimization: Added rel="nofollow" to links in the user activity and favored pages.
• Changed: Topic and post shortlinks previously showed a 404 error if the content was private or unapproved. Now, they redirect to the login page to authorize the user before displaying the content.
• New Addon: wpForo - Advanced Reactions

Important update notes

• After the update, please delete all caches and purge CDN if you have.
• After the update, please flush Redis Object Cache if you have this cache enabled

2.3.5 Changes

• Compatibility: WordPress 6.6
• Changed: Display access title instead of the key in the forum access table
• Fixed Bug: Issue with deleting own account
• Fixed Bug: Vulnerability issue (Sensitive Data Exposure)

2.3.4 Changes

• Fixed Bug: Vulnerability issue (By authenticated (Contributor+ users) SQL Injection)
• Fixed Bug: Invisible replies in private topics
• Fixed Bug: Prevent reCaptcha from being checked more than once

2.3.3 Changes

• Changed: File naming logic of profile cover images
• Changed: Ordering of forums and sub-forums in the Threaded Layout
• Changed: Using post's short URL for shortcode in email templates
• Fixed Bug: Performance issue with large number of members
• Fixed Bug: Permission issue with subscriptions and email notifications

2.3.2 Changes

• Fixed Bug: Compatibility issue with some page builders
• Fixed Bug: Dynamic Usergroup and User Role synchronization issues
• Fixed Bug: Member search ordering issue (used by User Mentioning addon)
• Fixed Bug: Custom values for max and minimum number of characters in the user password

2.3.1 Changes

• Fixed Bug: Member search issue when use profile title
• Fixed Bug: Usergroup and User Role synchronization issues
• Fixed Bug: Editor focusing issue when using stickers and emojis
• Fixed Bug: Permission issue for Authors to use Cross Posting addon
• Fixed Bug: CSS Issue with the red circle notification on the admin bar
• New Addon: wpForo – Groups Plugin Integration

2.3.0 Changes

• Added: Option to change wpForo sidebar location (left or right)
• Added: Red circle notification on the forum menu when there are unapproved posts
• Added: Extended the max rating level to 14, use wpforo_max_rating_levels hook
  • PHP code snippet example:
  • Use Code Snippets plugin or put this code in the functions.php of your current active theme to extend the rating level to 14.
    The default max level is 10.

    add_filter('wpforo_max_rating_levels', function($count){return 14;});

• Improved: Topic search and suggestion when creating a new topic
• Fixed Bug: Last login is incorrectly displaying current time in Dashboard > Members
• Fixed Bug: Database Error: Syntax error, unexpected ‘@’, when search words contain @
• Fixed Bug: Database Error on duplication key in _wpforo_visits table
• Fixed Bug: PHP Error: Trying to access array on null in /profile-subscriptions.php on line 18

wpForo 2.2 comes with lots of minor bags fixed. Some hooks have been added for wpForo developers and for managing wpForo functions.

Important update notes

• After the update, please delete all caches and purge CDN if you have.
• After the update, please flush Redis Object Cache if you have this cache enabled

2.2.10 Changes

• Added: Lots of new hooks requested by different developers
• Fixed Bug: Improved the init_current_object() function to avoid PHP errors
• Fixed Bug: Fix wpforo_urlencode() to lowcase URLs carefully
• New Addon: wpForo – User Mentioning
• Addon Update: wpForo – User Custom Field – Added shortcode with user fields filters and sorting parameters

2.2.9 Changes

• Added: Topic type classes to wrapper DIVs for better styling
• Added: Classes to all dates in topics and posts
• Fixed Bug: Vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
• Fixed Bug: PHP Fatal error when BuddyPress or Ultimate Member is deactivated
• Fixed Bug: Emoji encoding issue to be saved in utf8mb4 database tables
• Fixed Bug: rel="noindex,nofollow" to JS popup login and registration links

2.2.8 Changes

• Added: Display subforums' topics with the parent forum topics. By default the feature is disabled, you can enable it in Dashboard > wpForo > Settings > Display Topics & Posts admin page
• Added: Can post and can listen to voice posting permissions
• Fixed Bug: Fixed some font awesome icons
• Fixed Bug: PHP Fatal Errors
• Fixed Bug: Problems with options cache
• New Addon: wpForo - Voice Posting

2.2.7 Changes

• Improved: Forum search supports exact phrase search and boolean search:
  
  • Example: "search phrase" for exact phrase search
  • Example: +search +phrase for boolean search ("+" means AND)
  • Example: -"search phrase" for boolean search ("-" means NOT)
  • Example: search* for wildcard search
• Added: rel="nofollow" to share buttons and links
• Updated: Font Awesome to 6.5.1
• Updated: Replaced Twitter share buttons to X, with icons and colors
• Hooks: Added hooks to display user fields on posts and member list using wpForo User Custom Fields addon

2.2.6 Changes

• Added: Detecting the timezone from the user's browser if it's not set in the account settings
• Fixed Bug: Vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

2.2.5 Changes

• Compatibility: Adopted with old 7.x PHP version to avoid PHP errors
• Fixed Bug: Last post information on forum list
• Fixed Bug: Forum participants avatars
• Fixed Bug: Vulnerability to Content Injection
• Fixed Bug: Vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
• Fixed Bug: PHP error / Syntax error, unexpected '|', expected variable (T_VARIABLE))
• Fixed Bug: PHP error / Typed property wpforo\classes\Cache::$dir must not be accessed before initialization
• Fixed Bug: PHP error / Argument #2 ($haystack) must be of type array, null given in includes/hooks.php:1528
• Fixed Bug: PHP error / Trying to access array offset on value of type null in themes/2022/layouts/2/post.php
• Fixed Bug: Fatal error on user login and registration

2.2.4 Changes

• Compatibility: WordPress 6.4
• Added: Hook to control enabled activity types for BuddyPress integration
• Added: Better performance of Simplified forum layout
• Changed: Twitter to X, icons and labels
• Fixed Bug: XSS vulnerability issue
• Fixed Bug: User registration vulnerability
• Fixed Bug: Validating uploaded avatar files
• Fixed Bug: No way to select empty value for dropdown field
• Fixed Bug: Fatal error: array_merge() argument #2 must be of type array, null given in wpforo/classes/Activity.php:217

2.2.3 Changes

• Added: New hooks for activity editing and deleting methods
• Added: Suggesting correct page for setting forum as the home page
• Fixed Bug: Statistic issue on forum list of the Simplified Layout
• Fixed Bug: Remove auto-generation of log files
• Fixed Bug: 404 error when accessing URLs with postid in numeric permalink structure
• New Addon: wpForo - Paid Membership Pro Integration 

2.2.2 Changes

• Added: Increase max length of avatar URL field
• Added: Synchronize user roles and usergroups when roles are updated
• Fixed Bug: Issue with adding new forum access in non-latin languages
• Fixed Bug: Secondary usergroups syncing issue with multiple user roles
• New Addon: wpForo – MemberPress Integration
• New Addon: wpForo – SureMembers Integration

2.2.1 Changes

• Fixed Bug: PHP Error with Blog-Forum Cross Posting addon
• Fixed Bug: Forum board pageid shows “not found” message for Forum Admin
• Fixed Bug: Permission issue with editing of forum cover image

2.2.0 Changes

• Compatibility: WordPress 6.3
• Added: Button to copy a forum with all settings and permissions in dashboard
• Added: Filter hook to change wpForo cache directory
• Added: New email shortcodes , ,
• Added: Improved canonical URL generation and filtering unnecessary parts
• Added: Flexible tag separator, hook to change it
• Added: Shortcode for activity, account, and other profile pages
  • For example , the `id` is a user ID. Documentation: https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/getting-started/forum-page/wpforo-shortcodes/
• Added: Hooks:
  • wpforo_cache_dir
  • wpforo_tag_separator
  • wpforo_init_canonical_url
• Fixed Bug: PHP Fatal error when disable following and subscriptions modules
• Fixed Bug: Issue with arabic comma in topic tags
• Fixed Bug: RTL issues with some font-awesome icons
• Fixed Bug: RTL issues with tags

wpForo 2.1 comes with better performance and page loading speed. Lots of bugs have been fixed along with security issues. Forum widgets have been updated with new functions and features.

Important update notes

• After the update, please delete all caches and purge CDN if you have.
• After the update, please flush Redis Object Cache if you have this cache enabled

2.1.9 Changes

• Compatibility: PHP 8.2
• Fixed Bug: XSS vulnerability in the forum
• Hooks: wpforo_spam_topic and wpforo_spam_post

2.1.8 Changes

• Added: New button in wpForo > Tools > Database tables admin page to fix forum update and installation issues
• Fixed Bug: SSRF vulnerability in the forum
• Fixed Bug: Spoiler and Quotes formatting issue on forum posts
• Fixed Bug: PHP Warning in forum layout #2 when no last post information
• Fixed Bug: Issues with post reaction counting and forum cache
• Fixed Bug: Topic subscription button behavior when forum is subscribed
• Fixed Bug: Double printing of wpforo_date()
• Fixed Bug: WordPress database error Regex error ‘missing closing parenthesis
• Fixed Bug: Conflict with other plugins when BuddyPress integration is enabled
• Fixed Bug: Approved users need to be approved again after password resetting
• Fixed Bug: Forum sitemap.xml when “Turn WordPress to this forum board” is enabled
• Fixed Bug: Control issues with maximum number of attachments per forum posts
• Fixed Bug: Header processing issue with WordPress 6.2+ versions
• Fixed Bug: Bigint validation issues
• Fixed Bug: Backend user synchronization issue
• Fixed Bug: Forum template customization issue

2.1.7 Changes

• Added: Display forum admin note by secondary usergroups
• Updated: Decreased number of participants’ avatars on forum list
• Fixed Bug: Font-Awesome extra CSS file is not found for forum RTL mode
• Fixed Bug: Missing breadcrumb item on forum category page
• Fixed Bug: Incorrect number of replies on forum profile activity list
• Fixed Bug: Small style bugs

2.1.6 Changes

• Updated: New attribute boardid in wpForo shortcodes
• Fixed Bug: Missing tooltip on post-link buttons
• Fixed Bug: Different location of pagination button location for guests and users
• Fixed Bug: Pagination information in SEO title of profile activity section
• Fixed Bug: Lots of other minor bugs have been fixed.

2.1.5 Changes

• Added: Rich editor for forum description
• Added: do_shortcode() in wpForo email templates
• Fixed Bug: Problem with website URLs containing port number
• Fixed Bug: Unchangeable 10MB max uploaded file size
• Fixed Bug: Duplicated content in recent posts widget
• Fixed Bug: HTML escaping and sanitizing in the forum description and other sections
• Fixed Bug: New filter hook wpforo_check_referer to disable Error 2252 and Error 2253

2.1.4 Changes

• Fixed Bug: Topic and Post URL problems
• Fixed Bug: Scrolling issues
• Fixed Bug: Email sending issues

2.1.2 - 2.1.3 Changes

• Fixed Bug: Let users create and edit questions with empty content
• Fixed Bug: Email sending issues with internal cache
• Fixed Bug: Do not send email notification to inactive users
• Fixed Bug: Adjust “Can subscribe” permission to control users subscription tab
• Fixed Bug: Problem with Subscribe Manager form for multi-boards
• Fixed Bug: PHP property_exists() problem when settings have not initialized yet
• Fixed Bug: Reactions ordering problem
• Fixed Bug: Popup message problem on password reset page
• Fixed Bug: Issue with some email shortcides
• Fixed Bug: Problem with rendering of quotes on pop-up messages of topic overview
• Fixed Bug: Prevent creating topics with empty title.

2.1.1 Changes

• Changed: Correct location of reply editor after clicking the edit reply button
• Changed: Keep the regular loading type of widgets. AJAX is only used for multi-board forums when current board doesn’t match to the board widget.
• Fixed Bug: Conflict with SSO plugins
• Fixed Bug: Problem with importing users
• Fixed Bug: Preparation | Fatal error caused at line 231 of file Cache.php: Call to a member function reset()

2.1.0 Changes

• Added: Notification via email when the user become approved
• Added: User approval email template "subject" and "message body"
• Added: AJAX powered forum widgets
• Added: Post reactions caching (likes, dislikes)
• Added: Filter by Forums for Recent Topics widget
• Added: Filter by Forums for Recent Posts widget
• Added: Option to show only replies (skip first post) in Recent Posts widget
• Added: Option to manage post excerpt length in Recent Posts widget
• Added: Update-safe way to customize style.css of wpForo themes
• Added: Button to reset the profile cover image (delete the current one)
• Added: Insert selected quotes to the reply editor
• Added: Email shortcodes in the reset password template
• Added: Secondary usergroup in the Dashboard Members list
• Security: Strip all tags in a post reporting message
• Security: Fixed XSS vulnerability
• Security: Fixed CSRF in user deleting action
• Optimization: SQL optimization for forum statistic
• Optimization: Caching of avatar source URLs to decrease sql queries
• Filter Hook: wpforo_topic_fields_filter (allows filtering topic fields)
• Filter Hook: wpforo_avatar_cache (allows disabling avatar cache)
• Fixed Bug: PHP Warning - undefined array key "topicurl" in Actions.php
• Fixed Bug: Issue with Classic theme's "Add topic" button
• Fixed Bug: Usergroup selecting issue in Online Members widget
• Fixed Bug: Issue with Forum Tab in UM profile page
• Fixed Bug: Empty widget when recent topics are located in private forums
• Fixed Bug: Avoid "board slug duplication error" when executing db fixer SQL
• Fixed Bug: Popup message issue when unsubscribing from a forum or topic
• Fixed Bug: Banned users become active when they change their passwords
• Fixed Bug: Twitter link closing tag on profile page

It's been one year since the last update! Thank you for your huge patience. Again, we apologize for this long delay. There were lots of interruptions, we didn't work for a long period because of three COVID waves and big holidays. wpForo 2 core is fully re-developed, so we created a brand-new forum plugin with improved existing features and plus lots of new ones.

IMPORTANT!

• Please deactivate current addons or update them to 3.0.0 version before updating wpForo to 2.0.x
• This is a major update with fully changed forum theme.
• This update will remove forum template and CSS customizations.
• After the update, please delete all caches and purge CDN if you have.
• Please read the "Update to wpForo v2 Instruction" before updating the plugin.

Main Changes

Multi-Board System

Allows to create multiple separate forum boards in the same WordPress website. You can create fully separate forums in different pages. Description: https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/categories-and-forums/forum-boards/

Multi-Language Support

Using the multi-board system, you can create multiple separate forums for each language of your website. Each forum will have separate forum page, categories, forums and threads, but users will be the same for all forum boards.

New Theme (2022) with Redesigned Layouts

wpForo v2 comes with new 2022 theme and with completely redesigned forum layouts and style. It brings a modern and clean look to all 4 forum layouts (Extended, Simplified, Q&A and Threaded). Description: https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/categories-and-forums/forum-layouts/

Extended Layout

https://wpforo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/wpForo-v2-L1.png

Simplified layout

https://wpforo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/wpForo-v2-L2.png

Question & Answer Layout

https://wpforo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/wpForo-v2-L3.png

Threaded Layout

https://wpforo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/wpForo-v2-L4.png

Topic Overview and Stat Panel

This is a small panel on the top of all topics, which provides lots of quick information about the topic. Different statistic information and a quick tree of the whole topic with discussion threads and nested replies in one place. This makes it very easy and fast to find the posts you need in the topic.

https://wpforo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/wpForo-v2-topic-overview-2.png

New Member Profile System

It's fully changed with new features and modern design, becoming sitewide profile system, so in most cases you won't need to use other profile builder plugins. Description: https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/settings/member-profile/#profile-page

https://wpforo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/All-Profiles.png 

New Dashboard Settings Page

We've re-grouped and re-designed wpForo settings, now it's very easy to find the option you want, also you can search options using the live search field. So, managing of your forum has become very easy and fast. Description: https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/settings/

https://wpforo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/wpForo-v2-Dashboard-Settings.png

Spam Protection

New Registered User Approval: this feature will keep new registered users inactive until they are not activated by forum administrate. It's disabled by default, you can manage this option in the Login & Registration admin page.

Minimum number of approved posts to be able to edit own profile: This is another great spam protection feature. In most cases spammers register and do their spam in the profile page, they create spam profile pages with lots of links and spam content. They use “About”, “Website” and “Signature” profile fields. This option will stop users editing their profile information unless they have more than the minimum number of approved posts. Thus, you can prevent creating of spam profile pages.

Description: https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/settings/spam-protection/

2.0.9 Changes

• Core: SQL Optimization
• Core: More caching items (forum, topic, post URL caching)
• Core: Better built-in cache, better cache deleting control
• Core: Flush Redis Object Cache on activation
• Added: Clickable current forum link in the forums widget
• Fixed Bug: PHP Warning: trying to access key on null, line 228 / 235

2.0.8 Changes

• Added: Nickname on the profile page
  
• Added: More types of problem detection in Debug > Error & Issues Tab
  
• Added: Buttons to flush permalinks in wpForo > Overview admin page
       - Should be used if the forum page is changed
       - Should be used if the board slug is changed
       - Should be used if some pages are not accessible
       - Should be used if forum and topic links don't work
       - Should be used if forum paths are changed in General Settings
  
• Added: New color options for link colors in Colors & Styles admin page
  
• Added: Source and emoticons buttons in the signature and about editors
  
• Added: Allow auto-embed bmp, webp, svg and tiff files with URL 
  
• Changed: Like button moved to the post bottom section in Extended Layout
  
• Fixed Bug: Missing colors, make sure all css files are loaded with https
  
• Fixed Bug: CSS issues if user avatars are disabled
  
• Fixed Bug: Correct canonical URL for Q&A topics with sorting queries
  
• Fixed Bug: Stop hiding moderation buttons when topic overview is disabled
  
• Fixed Bug: Fatal error: array_merge(): Argument #2 must be of type array
  
• Fixed Bug: PHP Warning at /2/forum.php 103 line
  
• Fixed Bug: Small CSS issues

2.0.7 Changes

• • Added: Filter hooks to set minimum number of posts for Active and Hot topics
    
  • Added: Missing phrases
    
  • Added: Hook to disable topic suggestion requests:
  • add_filter('wpforo_topic_suggestion', '__return_false');

• Added: Post count information under the user avatar in the Simplified layout
  
• Changed: Search engine ping service URLs
  
• Fixed Bug: Problems with displaying login, register and profile pages
  
• Fixed Bug: Problems with displaying unapproved posts in moderation page
  
• Fixed Bug: Profile cover image saving problems
  
• Fixed Bug: Board settings saving issues
  
• Fixed Bug: Problem with remote avatar saving on the second time

2.0.6 Changes

• Added: Usergroup permission "Can upload cover profile image"
  
• Added: Display Tags link in forum footer
  
• Added: Favored button in member's profile buttons
  
• Added: Member paths in cache excluding admin notes
  
• Added: Admin notification when the default board is missing
  
• Added: Info in Errors & Issues tab when old customized template files are detected
  
• Security: Added wp_nonce and wp_send_json_error() to all AJAX requests
  
• Spam Protection: Minimum user level to display signature
  
• Spam Protection: Don't show profile fields for users who don't have content
  
• Fixed Bug: Classic theme issues (like button, search icon, profile page)
  
• Fixed Bug: Disable forum statistic using the corresponding option
  
• Fixed Bug: Duplicated information about points on profile and members page
  
• Fixed Bug: Icon issue in Member Title profile field
  
• Fixed Bug: Problem with password changing in forum profile page
  
• Fixed Bug: Using WordPress timezone for not-loggedin visitors
  
• Fixed Bug: The checkbox options of Admin Note don't work
  
• Fixed Bug: Cannot add forum cover image in non-default boards
  
• Fixed Bug: Problems with manual approval of new registered users
  
• Fixed Bug: Turn off topic suggestion when editing a topic
  
• Fixed Bug: Problem with saving the board description
  
• Fixed Bug: Stop loading UM css and other functions if UM is not installed
  
• Fixed Bug: Pagination dropdown background issue
  
• Fixed Bug: Remove nofollow links from the end of breadcrumbs
  
• Fixed Bug: Avatar overlapping issue in Simplified layout
  
• Fixed Bug: Avoid sending duplicated email on new reply and user mentioning
  
• Fixed Bug: Don't send email to the post approving moderator
  
• Fixed Bug: Email template and shortcode issues
  
• Fixed Bug: User Profile Synchronization Issue
  
• Fixed Bug: Filter by forums in Recent Posts widget
  
• Fixed Bug: PHP Note: Empty values in widget / Warning: Undefined array key Posts.php on line 655

2.0.5 Changes

• Added: Topic and Post dislike notification
• Added: ID’s to forum wrappers on forum home page
• Fixed Bug: Forum access “Can Like” doesn’t work
• Fixed Bug: Email shortcode rendering issue
• Fixed Bug: Loosing theme settings when the General Settings are updated
• Fixed Bug: WordPress author URL problem /participant/anonymous/
• Fixed Bug: Admin note “wpForo Installation Status”
• Fixed Bug: User avatar issue in “Profile & Notifications” Widget

2.0.4 Changes

• Added: Separate navigation menu and Menu Location for each board
• Added: Limit suggested topics
• Changed: Hide suggested topics when user left the title field
• Fixed Bug: Language conflict with other plugins in AJAX requests
• Fixed Bug: JS/CSS file conflict in dashboard
• Fixed Bug: 404 error when Polyglot plugin is used with single board
• Fixed Bug: PHP Notice / Trying to get property ‘roles’ of non-object in hooks.php on line 22

2.0.3 Changes

• Fixed Bug: Problem with get_locale() function
• Fixed Bug: Deactivate old addons and don’t allow activating them to avoid fatal errors
• Fixed Bug: Revert the lost sidebar after updating to v2.0

2.0.2 Changes

• Updated: Deactivate old addons before updating wpForo to avoid Fatal Errors
• Fixed bug: Problems with Topics and Posts short URLs
• Fixed bug: Hide like / dislike buttons for non-loggedin users.

2.0.1 Changes

• Added: Redesigned Members Directory
• Added: AJAX powered profile actions and sub-tabs
• Added: Point based user reputation collected on new topic, post, like, dislike
• Added: User following with corresponding (following and followers) tabs in profile
• Added: User ban and edit buttons in users profile pages
• Added: User soft and full deleting option
• Added: Mute button to disable email notifications on user mentioning in posts
• Added: Profile cover image
• Added: Last login information on the profile page
• Added: Separated sub-tabs All/Topics/Posts in Profile > Activity Tab
• Added: Favored Tab with Bookmarks/Likes/Dislikes sub-tabs
• Added: User profile page without forum header and footer
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• Topic Overview: on the top of topics with quick stat and a tree of nested replies
• Added: Topic specific statistics with participants and likes count
• Added: Topic suggestion while typing topic title in new topic creation form
• Added: Topic and Post bookmarking button allows adding them in "favored" list
• Added: Topic managing buttons are moved from the first post to the top of all pages
• Added: Topic and Posts Dislike button with new ui/ux
• Added: Topic/Post filter in Dashboard > wpForo > Moderation admin page
• Added: H1 headers in topic tags page
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• Added: Forum cover image, available for all layouts
• Added: button to all layouts on the forum home page
• Added: Forum Jump dropdown in topics footer area
• Added: Category and Forums widget with an option to display as dropdown
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• Added: Settings boxes grouping related options
• Added: Settings live search field, jumping to found setting page
• Antispam: Check links in topic custom fields and in signatures for auto moderation
• Antispam: Option to set minimum number of approved posts to be able to edit own profile. Doesn't allow spammers to create spam profile pages with lots of links and spam content.
• Added: Toggle to keep collapsed wpForo menu shortcodes in Menus admin page
• Added: New social network meta tag "og:local" in forum and topic pages
• Added: Dashboard notification to exclude forum for 7 popular cache plugins
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• Lots of options have been added in wpForo Settings
• Lots of bugs have been fixed
• The core is fully re-developed and optimized

Great job has been done by Beta Testers!

Special thank you to our Beta Testers who have worked hard during the last month and helped us find and fix lots of major and minor bugs: @dimalifragis, @verek, @tutrix, @kezeo, @wendell, @berndg, @lepalois, @fawp and others.

All the hard work we have done during the last ten months are totally free, and all these features have been added in the free wpForo core plugin. The number of changes is tremendous, so we may still have some bugs. We would like to ask our beta testers to install the beta version and report all bugs you have found.

We've already granted access to the "Beta Testers" forum to all active members. If you want to become a beta tester, and you don't see "wpForo Beta Testing" forum under the "wpForo Community" category, please let us know.

We're very close to release the first beta version of wpForo 2.

We apologize for this long delay. There were lots of interruptions, we didn't work for a long period because of three COVID waves and big holidays. wpForo 2 core is fully re-developed, so we created a brand-new forum plugin with improved same features plus lots of new ones.

The beta version will be released for beta testers this month. If we got small amount of bugs, then the stable version will be released by the end of this month as well.

What's new in wpForo 2

• Multi-board system: Allows to create multiple separate forum boards in the same WordPress website. You can create fully separate forums in different pages,
• Multi-language forums: Using the multi-board system, you can create multiple separate forums for each language of your website. Each forum will have separate forum page, categories, forums and threads, but users will be the same for all forum boards.
• New Dashboard Settings: We've re-grouped and re-designed wpForo settings, now it's very easy to find the option you want, also you can search options using the live search field. So, managing of your forum has become very easy and fast.
• Module System: We've gathered many forum features and grouped them into modules. Now you can enable disable some group of features with you don't use and keep your forum light.
• New Forum Theme: The new version comes with new 2022 theme and with completely redesigned forum layouts and style. It brings modern and clean look for all 4 forum layouts (Extended, Simplified, Q&A and Threaded),
• New Member Profile System: wpForo 2 has more powerful member profile system with awesome design, so in most cases you won't need to use other profile builder plugins,
• Points Based User Reputation System: With the new version, you can set different points for likes, dislikes, new topics and posts. The user reputation will be based on number of points,
• User Following: This is a great feature if you want to follow all activities of certain users. Now all users will be able to follow  other users and vice versa. You'll be able to see your followers and your followed users information in your profile page,
• Category Background: This makes your forum categories more attractive, and separates forum sections very well.  Each category will start with a nice background header, and you'll be able to manage the category height,
• Topic Bookmark / Favored Profile Tab: Another great feature to mark your preferred topics and posts as favored and see them in your account new tab called . In this tab, you'll also see liked and disliked topics and posts.
• Topic Overview: This is a small panel on the top of all topics, which provides lots of quick information about the topic. Different statistic information and a quick tree of the whole topic with discussion threads and nested replies in one place. This makes it very easy and fast to find the posts you need in the topic,
• And lots of more features to come very soon...

Addons

New version of all addons will be released to make them compatible with wpForo 2.0. If the license of your addons are not expired, you'll be able to get updates and install the new version of addons with the new wpForo forum. We're really sorry, but there was no way to make the old version of addons compatible with the new wpForo 2 version. As I said above, the plugin core is total changed, and it requires new functions to make addons working together. Once you installed the wpForo 2.0, all old addons will be automatically deactivated to avoid fatal errors. Once you updated the addon, you can activate them and use with wpForo 2.

Thank you for your patience, I believe the time you've spent on waiting the new major version worth it.

This version is released for WordPress 5.8 compatibility. A few bugs are fixed, and some changes have been done for most popular SEO plugin compatibility (Yoast SEO, All in One SEO, Rank Math SEO).

Important update notes

• After the update, please delete all caches.
• If you have a Minifier/Optimizer plugins, please delete all caches.
• If you use CDN and found some issues, please purge it.
• Some JS and CSS files are changed, please refresh (press Ctrl+F5) on forum front-end twice to reset browser cache, otherwise you'll see crashed design.

Changelog:

• Compatibility: WordPress 5.8
• Compatibility: All in One SEO plugin (no conflict with wpForo SEO)
• Compatibility: Yoast SEO plugin (no conflict with wpForo SEO)
• Compatibility: Rank Math SEO (no conflict with wpForo SEO)
• Compatibility: Changes to display registration errors (for CleanTalk)
• Added: New hooks for debugging
• Added: New language files, existing ones are updated
• Fixed Bug: Problem with auto-complete search of topic tags
• Fixed Bug: Fatal error - Undefined method wpdb::db_server_info()
• Fixed Bug: Fatal Error - Unsupported operand types in functions.php
• Fixed Bug: PHP Notice - Trying to access array offset on value
• Fixed Bug: wpforo_strip_shortcodes function removes http links