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Some Questions what i need to know before Membership!
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Mongfevned
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Oct 20, 2014 - 5:42 am
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Hello Simple Press Team!

 

I have some Questions about your Forum. At the Moment i am looking at a good Forum. Till some days i used OPN for our community website but i need it to changed. I put WP on it and configured it well. Also i installed PHPBB with the WP-United Bridge and...when we went live all messed up....

Then i was searching and searching and searching for a integrated solution (not only opensource - i am also willing to buy) and found: nothing good (vanilla, vbulletin, phpbb, mbb, SMF) and nothing working properly. So i found your site.

For that i have some Questions what is a MUST HAVE for our website:

 

- Is it possible to atomatically put blog-news into a Forum?

- connect via Facebook ?

- User Roles - is it possible to tell usergrps where they r able to go to ? Ae: i nee dforums for headquarter, officer, Founder, Administration and each is for a seperate group...

- Language Pack: German available?

- Private Messages with Inbox? and dataupload?

- if i buy the gold membership i get ALL the plugins?

- theme: how many do you have or is it hard to personalize it? i need the theme darker so it will suite our WP theme

- is SP the only one forum which is so kewl integrated into WP? without bridges aso ? who stabil is SP ?

- whos online box for WP ?

- users stabil linked with WP users? Are the SP Roles the same as the WP Roles/Groups?

- is it possible to see a full plugin´ed forum - the admin board ?

- where is the new user registereing? on WP or SP or is it the same? is there a capthca then?

- is there a user group for New registered user? where i can check that people with above 10 posts r not able to post directly only when a admin or mod allow it...

- how often are there updates and how long will this forum and the team be alive and working on that? I dont want a solution for only 1 year....

Sorry for that much Questions and sorry if i ask something which is in FAQ or plugins but then i didnt see it ;)

 

ng, Mongfevned

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Ike
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Oct 20, 2014 - 6:45 am
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Hey,

No problem asking, that's what this forum is for - however there are several links on the right hand side here that could answer most of your questions. Definitely take a look at the plugins page.

Check out the blog linking plugin - has the ability to create a blog post from a forum post, and can also create a forum post from a blog post automatically amongst other things.

Not 100% sure what you mean by 'connect via Facebook' however we do offer a share this plugin that integrates the share this service allowing you to share topics / posts on social networking sites.

Simple:Press allows you to organise users into usergroups which you have complete control over. Using permissions on forums you have created, you can limit usergroups to specific forums, allowing people to only access the forums / areas you want them to.

If you click the your language button from the tiles on the right hand side at the top of this page, it takes you to our translations page - for which you can see that for core files, plugins and themes - German is roughly 90% translated throughout.

Yes we offer a private messaging plugin with inbox, and also a file uploader plugin.

If you buy Gold or Silver membership you get access to all plugins, themes and future updates.

The themes are not hard to customise as long as you are familiar with WordPress and the way templates work (and of course have a basic understanding of CSS and some PHP) - The one theme that you get as a bonus with a membership is 'Unified' theme that is fully responsive for mobile and tablet use.

I'm not sure I fully understand the next question, although it is fully integrated into WP, and very stable!

As you can see in the stats section below, you can see several stats relating to who's online, like currently online, currently browsing this page, devices in use, see all online activity etc. These can be removed easily if unnecessary, or tweaked using the template functions with arguments.

The SP roles are different from WP roles, however you use the WP roles to determine which usergroups your SP members can fall into. Although the users are all WP users, SP just gives them labels so to speak - they are still and always will be just WP users.

We have a basic math question captcha which you can put in place using permissions, or an advanced captcha plugin which involves dragging an image into a circle.

As we demonstrate here in this very post, being a guest your post has gone into 'moderation' and in order for your post to be visible to other users, an admin or mod has to respond, or allow the post using our admin bar plugin. You can set up new usergroups for newly registered users - although this is normally controlled using a membership plugin with Simple:Press such as wishlist member, in which as long as the plugin conforms to WP's API, will work well with SP.

Simple:Press has been around for quite some time and will continue to be. Updates are regular (v5.5.1 was released a month or so ago and v5.5.2 is planned for the end of the month) Please see our latest news and developments section which is open to non-members.

Hope this answers all your questions.

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Mongfevned
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Oct 20, 2014 - 8:41 am
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Hi ike

Thx a lot for the fast Support and your professional, extended answers.

The Forum is very impressive as i see.

I installed it to our WP and checked it a little bit and it feels very good and the install is... WOW!!!!!!!!! so simple... amazing!
But some more Questions ;)   (I checked the Plugins... but something i didnt find there or maybe im to blind)

- At the Forum below Advanced search - there are arrows with where you r (Home/Forum/Taverne etc) and its not in 1 Row so it takes a lot of space when u have some Subforum - is it possible to change that into 1 row? or is it at other themes in 1 row ? or via CSS ? (im a CSS Noob ;) )

- do the SP have a User Online Box to use as a widget for the WP? Or a box that u r loged in with a avatar ? so to see it also at the sidebar as a widget...

- when i buy the membership - i instant get to paypal - so when i buy and money is at your site i get the login code via email ? or how does it work then?

- why says the forum at my last posting: -3178 seconds ago ? (http://www.mnsg.net/?page_id=375)

so far i am really impressed and this far i think we will get along with the gold membership here.

thx a lot in advance and for your time,

ng mongfevned

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Yellow Swordfish
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Oct 20, 2014 - 8:56 am
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Mongfevned said

- At the Forum below Advanced search - there are arrows with where you r (Home/Forum/Taverne etc) and its not in 1 Row so it takes a lot of space when u have some Subforum - is it possible to change that into 1 row? or is it at other themes in 1 row ? or via CSS ? (im a CSS Noob ;) )

This can be changed by a small edit to the template. SP is template driven so just about display change is possible.

- do the SP have a User Online Box to use as a widget for the WP? Or a box that u r loged in with a avatar ? so to see it also at the sidebar as a widget...

Not really sure what you are asking for here. remember that Simple:Press only tracks visitors to the forum - not to the website. There are many other plugins that will do this for you.

- when i buy the membership - i instant get to paypal - so when i buy and money is at your site i get the login code via email ? or how does it work then?

You receive your account details by email.

- why says the forum at my last posting: -3178 seconds ago ? (http://www.mnsg.net/?page_id=375)
so far i am really impressed and this far i think we will get along with the gold membership here.
thx a lot in advance and for your time,
ng mongfevned

Look at our cdex - FAQs - Troubleshooting. You will find an article on this in the list

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Mongfevned
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Oct 20, 2014 - 10:10 am
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oki, thanks for the answers - then this forum has all we need. We will see us soon in the other forum ;)

ng, Mongfevned

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Oct 20, 2014 - 10:29 am
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We will be here

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