Simple:Press Features
Forum
- Completely theme and template driven
- Plugin system to add new features
- Sub-forum support to any level
- Optional post moderation (approval)
- Unread post handling for all individual users
- Forum ranks and badges
- Automatic image thumbnails and popup enlargement
- User defined Signatures
- Avatars – uploads, Gravatar support or WP
- Comprehensive search options
- A forum toolset for common topic and post tasks
- Forum Statistics – including who is online
- Custom icons for groups and forums
- RSS feeds for global, group, forum and topics
- Custom smileys including smiley uploads
- Create hidden ‘spoilers’ in posts
- Optional support for WP shortcodes
- Email notification of new posts to admins
- Store components outside of the plugin for safety
Integration
- Fully integrated with WordPress registrations and logins
- Supports WordPress standard and multisite
- Uses Cookies to track returning members and guests
- Complete uninstall/removal option
- Comprehensive Administrative Options and Settings
Security
- Powerful user group and permission system
- Can create private and/or public forums
- Optional ‘math’ spam prevention tool
- Coded to use WordPress secure routines
- Feature to prevent user access to wp admin
- Private RSS feeds for members only
SEO
- Creates pretty/seo friendly permalinks
- Support for the All In One SEO Pack and Google XML Sitemap Plugins
- Page and browser title settings
- Canonical URL’s
- Custom descriptions and keywords
Profiles
- Extended member profile options
- Each user can set their own timezone
- Full Members Listing
- Supports RPX/Janrain 3rd party login
- Social network and IM identities
API
- Extensive use of WP style action/filter hooks
- Each display element contained in a template display function
- Full access to the underlying api
- Data inspection tool
Language
- Fully localised for language support
- Separate language files for forum and admin
- Community driven translation site
- Growing number of translations available
Plugins
Available Plugins
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Admin Bar
Helps admins and moderators manage the new forum posts all in one place – allowing for instant deletion or approval as well as offering a Quick Reply feature. This plugin also optionally adds Akismet support to help detect and deal with spam
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Blog Linking
Automatically creates new forum topics from your blog posts and creates a link. Optionally creates forum posts from linked blog comments and allows for their display in the forum as well as dislaying the topic posts in the comments section of the blog
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Captcha
Adds an image drag and drop captcha for registrations and posting form
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Custom Profile Fields
Create custom profile fields
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Font Resize
Add font resizing links to the forum display which are then saved as a cookie for your users
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Google Sitemap
Automate forum site map generation in conjunction with the Google XML Sitemap plugin by Arne Brachhold
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Gravatar Cache
Cache Gravatars within the local filesystem for improved performance
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Online
Show who is online around your forum and just what topics they are visiting at any given moment
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Image and File Uploader
Upload images, media and files in forum posts
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Policy Documents
Display an optional forum policy and/or privacy document from links in the forum footer. Optionally enforce new users to accept the policy before they register
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Post Rating
Allow your users to rate forum posts with a choice of either stars or thumbs up/down mechanics
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Private Messaging
Fully featured Private Messaging System with Buddies and Enemies
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Profanity Filter
Filter profanity or other key words out of post content and optionally replace them
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Profile Display Control
Optionally remove elements from the profile edit form
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Prune Database
Prune the database of old, unwanted topics
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QuickTags bbCode Editor
Simple bbCode editor based on WordPress ‘Quicktags’
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QuickTags HTML Editor
Simple HTML editor based on WordPress ‘Quicktags’
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Report Post
Report a post with questionable content to the forum admins
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Spam Registrations
Remove spam registrations (registered users who haven’t posted)
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Subscriptions
Allow users to subscribe to topics and receive email notifications of new posts to those topics
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Syntax Code Highlighting
Add program code syntax highlighting to forum posts and, optionally, to blog posts. Requires the TinyMCE rich text editor
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Tags
Allow your users to define tags for your forum topics. Comes with a tags search capability and extensive tag management
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Template Tags
A collection of template tags and recent post widget for displaying forum data in other areas of your site
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TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor
The TinyMCE rich text editor
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Topic Status
Assign a current status to topics from a user-defined list
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Watches
Allow users to watch a topic
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