We just released wpForo 1.4.8 version.
Note: After the update please delete all caches and do Ctrl+F5 on forum front.
Some planned features have been moved to 1.5.0 because of making wpForo GDPR compliant. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was finally approved by the EU Parliament on 14 April 2016. Enforcement date: 25 May 2018 – at which time those organizations in non-compliance may face heavy fines. More info at GDPR Portal.
wpForo 1.4.8 comes with many tools and options to help you with GDPR compliance.
Main Changes
1. Forums > Tools > Privacy & Rules admin page with options to manage Forum Privacy Policy, Rules, GDPR aspects and Cookies:
2. Checkboxes on registration form and guest posting editors
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3. Options to Manage Share Button in Forums > Settings > API's admin page
4. Post Sharing Toggle and General Share Buttons
5.Subscription Manager in My Profile > Subscriptions page
6. BuddyPress Integration with Forums Profile Tabs
Changelog:
- Added: GDPR Compliance
- Added: GDPR | Checkbox - Accept Forum Privacy Policy
- Added: GDPR | Checkbox - Accept Website Privacy Policy
- Added: GDPR | Checkbox - Accept Email confirmation
- Added: GDPR | Checkbox - Accept Forum Rules
- Added: GDPR | Checkbox - Accept Facebook Login processing
- Added: GDPR | Forum Privacy Policy Template
- Added: GDPR | Forum Rules Template
- Added: GDPR | Manage Cookies
- Added: GDPR | Button to contact forum admin
- Added: GDPR | Checkboxes on registration page
- Added: GDPR | Checkboxes on guest posting editors
- Added: Share Buttons
- Added: Share | Post specific share buttons (3 locations)
- Added: Share | General share buttons (2 locations)
- Added: Share | Different share button style and type
- Added: BuddyPress Integration
- Added: BuddyPress | Forums Menu
- Added: BuddyPress | Profile Tab Forums > Create forum topics,
- Added: BuddyPress | Profile Tab Forums > Posted forum replies,
- Added: BuddyPress | Profile Tab Forums > Liked Posts,
- Added: BuddyPress | Profile Tab Forums > Subscriptions,
- Added: BuddyPress | Notification Integration,
- Added: BuddyPress | Update Activity on post status changing,
- Added: Forum Subscription Manager in My Profile > Subscriptions page,
- Added: Recent Topics Widget (order by updated date, posts, views),
- Added: Option to enable new HTML tags in post content,
- Added: Options to disable file scanning, exclude file extensions,
- Added: Allow /* extension in nofollow list of SEO Tools
- Added: Danish Translation ( da_DK ), many thanks to Tom
- Fixed Bug: reCAPTCHA Bug, can't login when WP forms are disabled
- Fixed Bug: Removed "iframe" tag in post content by default
- Fixed Bug: Q&A Layout, problem with counting of answers
- Fixed Bug: Simplified Layout, last posted guest avatar issue
- Fixed Bug: - Choose - option for required dropdown filed
- Fixed Bug: Database error related to users table on Multisite
- Fixed Bug: Problem with Usergroup field on Account page
- Fixed Bug: URL type of user avatar doesn't work
- Fixed Bug: Fully disable Forum RSS Feed
- Fixed Bug: Private forum last post info in forum statistic
- Fixed Bug: Subforum topic doesn't update parent forums information
- Fixed Bug: Yoast Deprecated function
UPDATE NOTES
- To load your customized colors please refresh forum front-end page twice.
- If you have a Cache Plugin, please delete all caches after wpForo update.
- If you use CDN and found some issue please purge it.
- If you have an old (1.4.2 or lower) customized copy of wpForo forum template files in your WP theme /wpforo/ folder please update them.
- If you see style issues after update, please refresh forum page twice or do Ctrl+F5 on forum front-end to load new styles.
- If you have wpForo addons, please update them right after wpForo forum update. Don’t update them before wpForo forum update.
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Before I install the update, can you advise how this will work in tandem with my plugin WP Simple Membership - currently my users sign up via this plugin, as it is a paid membership, and a forum account is automatically created for them because of their wordpress profile. Will that continue to happen or are they required to join via the wpForo sign up process and agree to all the policies?
@robert and team,
Just installed this update and will begin exploring in more detail tomorrow. This is nothing more than a big thank you for such an amazing product that's like a fine wine - it gets better with age. All that's needed now from my perspective is integration with Ultimate Member, but hey - I can wait 😊
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Hi Robert,
Just wondering as its not mentioned in the release notes for 1.4.8.
Did you not include the fix for the stopping private topic posts being listed in the footer status bar, as detailed here, or was it delayed due to the GDPR urgency?
https://wpforo.com/community/wpforo-announcements/wpforo-1-4-7-is-released/#post-14688
Before I install the update, can you advise how this will work in tandem with my plugin WP Simple Membership - currently my users sign up via this plugin, as it is a paid membership, and a forum account is automatically created for them because of their wordpress profile. Will that continue to happen or are they required to join via the wpForo sign up process and agree to all the policies?
I think there should not be any issue. All these options are related to forum part, they doesn't affect other plugins. Nothing will be changed in your website authorization and registration functions.
If you have a site-wide privacy policy you can add some text regarding to forum data usage. This is all what you need to do. There is a forum privacy policy template in Forums > Tools > Privacy and Rules admin page. This template includes all information about wpForo data usage, processing, controlling, etc..
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@robert and team,
Just installed this update and will begin exploring in more detail tomorrow. This is nothing more than a big thank you for such an amazing product that's like a fine wine - it gets better with age. All that's needed now from my perspective is integration with Ultimate Member, but hey - I can wait 😊
Thank you mcutting,
We're waiting for some stable version of UM to start investigation of integration points.
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Hi Robert,
Just wondering as its not mentioned in the release notes for 1.4.8.
Did you not include the fix for the stopping private topic posts being listed in the footer status bar, as detailed here, or was it delayed due to the GDPR urgency?
https://wpforo.com/community/wpforo-announcements/wpforo-1-4-7-is-released/#post-14688
Yes, this should also be fixed. This is included in change-log:
Fixed Bug: Private forum last post info in forum statistic
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Apologies Robert, I read through the update details and still managed to somehow miss it! I blame it on lack of coffee 😀
p.s.
Great work on the GDPR compliance inclusion big 👍 up to the team,
@robert any reason as to why LinkedIn is missing from the share buttons ?
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@robert any reason as to why LinkedIn is missing from the share buttons ?
Hi mcutting,
In near future releases we're planning to add three more buttons (LinkedIn, Reddit, WhatsApp). The only reason why you don't see any share button is the large number of options. I'm sorry, but we can't add them all, however we'll add a few more new share buttons periodically in future releases.
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Hi Olaniyan Olanrewaju,
but couldn't find the improvement on the recent topic widget to filter by amount of replies e.t.c.
We add the topic ordering logic. See screenshot. This is not the same as filter logic, we don't add the filter logic at all.
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First of all a Big thank you for this excellent plugin.
After updating to version 1.4.8 videos I've embedded from YouTube do not appear anymore.
And videos in new posts are not saved at all
We've removed iframe tag from post content by default. This is an insecure tag. However, if your sure your user will not use iframe tag to load viruses from other sites you can enable it back. Please navigate to Dashboard > Forums > Tools admin page, and in Antispam tab find the option to enable extra HTML tags. Put this in the textarea:
iframe(src width height),
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