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.
New Theme with 5 Modern Layouts
wpForo 3.0 introduces a redesigned forum theme with a modern 2026 design. All layouts have been refreshed:
- Extended Layout — The traditional forum layout with rich topic previews, latest post snippets, and comprehensive metadata.
- Simplified Layout — Streamlined, modern layout with clean aesthetics, prominent user avatars, and focused content.
- Q&A Layout — Professional question-and-answer format with voting system, accepted answers, and reputation points.
- Threaded Layout — Hierarchical discussion format for in-depth conversations with nested replies.
- Boxed Layout (NEW) — A brand new card-based forum experience with a clean, modern look.
Forum as Support Tickets
Turn any forum into a private support ticket system. Topics are created as private by default — only the topic owner and your support team (admins and moderators) can access them.
99.9% Spam Protection
10 layers of posting control. AI content moderation combined with wpForo built-in spam protection, enhanced time-window flood rate limiting, proper moderation logs, and reCAPTCHA v3 score-based invisible protection.
- reCAPTCHA v2 or v3 (score based)
- Flood Detection
- New User Control
- Post Similarity Control
- Links in Post Content
- Permissions to be able pass moderation
- Minimum approved posts
- AI content moderation - spam detection
- AI content moderation - toxic content detection
- AI content moderation - forum rules and compliance checking
Easier Content Moderation
Ban users or delete them with all their posts directly from the Moderation admin page. Each unapproved post displays the reason it was flagged, making moderation decisions faster
Block Widgets
All wpForo widgets converted to modern WordPress block widgets with improved functionality. Redesigned Topic Tags widget with a clean flat design and enhanced customization options.
Performance Improvements
Significant speed boost with static caching for different processes, optimized database queries, and reduced server load for faster page rendering across the entire forum.
360° AI-Powered Features with gVectors AI
wpForo 3.0 comes with a full suite of AI features powered by gVectors AI infrastructure.
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
The AI features will be enabled on your websites once you clicked the [Generate API Key & Connect] button. You'll get 500 free credits to do all kind of test.
OMG!!! This looks so good! Well done team! Well done!
Check out my Wpforo forum, lots of customisations and add ons 🙂
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@robert Congratulations! That's a fantastic update. When do you plan to officially roll it out to all users? And could we get some information about pricing? We'd like to prepare in advance.
We also did very detailed CSS work for our Wpforo site. We uploaded this to the custom CSS area in the Wpforo settings. Will this update affect the design?
@Robert this all looks very exciting indeed. Lots to read and ponder today and tomorrow.
Will "Reputation & Points" and gamification now be integrated into wpforo, it is still third party plugins?
Hi @marsm,
As you know the wpForo and wpDiscuz plugins are products of gVectors Team. gVectors has created an AI infrastructure for digital discussions and this is the backend of wpForo AI, so the wpForo AI is based on our new AI Service called gVectors AI. The prices are listed here is the same prices you'll find in wpForo > AI Features admin page once you connected to the service.
https://wpforo.com/gvectors-ai/
The service connection is free and you'll get 500 free credits to test all you need. For large forums, there are also free bonus credits to index all your topics for free. The AI indexing allows to transform your forum content into an intelligent knowledge base. wpForo indexes discussions, posts, and media to build a searchable vector database optimized for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) enabling AI that truly understands your domain and provide smart result to users with all AI features.
Wow, amazing work, man! Big congrats on the new version—trying it now.
Wow, after reading through the new v3 website, I'm very excited for this release! I may have to clone my live site and do some testing. 🙂
Thank you to the gVectors team for all your hard work!
Rockin' wpForo at RPLS.com 🤩
加油💪💪💪 Nice version!
like it
Well done team!
I have created copy of my rpls.com site to staging and am having a hard time finding any problems to report. That is a good problem to have. 😉
The only problem I have found so far is a missing icon in the profile widget when placed on a non-wpforo page. But keep in mind that it is also a bug in the current version, so nothing new.
Rockin' wpForo at RPLS.com 🤩
@wendell very nice... seems to work very well.
Will the option exist to pay for a full year in advance as opposed to mostly payments?
Will the option exist to pay for a full year in advance as opposed to mostly payments?
Not yet. Since this is a new feature, we're starting with monthly subscriptions only. After about a year, once the AI service proves stable, we plan to introduce annual subscription plans as well.