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