We are very happy to announce the formal, Gold release of Simple:Press Forum V4.0.0! After several months of serious coding and testing, we feel our baby is ready for release. You can get the new version on our downloads page. We really think you will like what has been added since V3.x!
Simple:Press is a feature rich forum plugin for WordPress. It fully integrates into your WP based site utilizing the same user records and database and displaying on a single WP page. It is fully customizable and comes with a number of skins and sets of icons to get your started. Current users have shown it to be fully scalable whether your site membership numbers the tens or the thousands.
Through it’s powerful and flexible permissions system it is suitable for those who wish to run private, specialist forums with invited members but is equally able to accommodate open, public forums that allow guest posting.
Also included is a Private Messaging sub-system, the ability to link blog posts with forum topics, the capability to extend the forum display with custom code, a number of template tags for use outside of the forums, extensive online help that explains every option and full language support.
Features:
- Fully integrated with WordPress user registrations and logins
- Creates ‘pretty/SEO friendly’ permalinks
- Underpinned by a powerful user and permission system
- Can create private forums
- Forums can be ‘Members Only’ or can allow for Guests
- Private Messaging system
- Admins can allow for post moderation (approval)
- Built in Search tool
- Fully customizable skins and icons
- Most rendering functions are ‘pluggable’
- Choice of Editors (RTE, HTML, bbCODE)
- Options Signatures, Signature Image, Avatars, and Rankings
- A variety of Template Tags – recent posts etc
- Programmable Hooks for user extension
- Optional Spam Prevention tools
- Optional Cookies to track Guests and Members
- Fully Localized for language support
- Optional and various RSS feeds and email subscription to topics
- Various display options to suit your needs and theme
- An Admin toolset to perform many tasks from within the forum itself
- Blog Posts and Forum Topics can be linked
- Support for the Democracy Polls plugin
- Support for the Gravatars 2 plugin
- Forum Statistics – including who is online
- Complete uninstall/removal option
- Support for the All In One SEO Pack Plugin (Browser title bar)
- View Admins New Post Queue from ALL views with ‘Quick Reply’
- Right-to-left language support in the TinyMCE editor
- Topic Status Tracking
- Custom Smileys
- RTE Toolbar Customization
- Pre-registration Policy display option
- Post Ratings
- Add Custom Profile data items
- ‘Watched’ topics
- Multiple forum Admins
- Members List
- And more….
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A full blown demo of the plugin can be seen in our support forum. You can get the new version on our downloads page. If you have any issues with the plugin or have a feature request, please visit the support forum.
Enjoy!!!!
Mr Papa (Steve Klasen) and Yellowswordfish (Andy Staines)