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March 8th 2008: Simple Forum (V2.1) has been updated to Version 3 and given a new name - Simple:Press Forum. This is an optional update for current users but a required update for anyone using WordPress version 2.5
Visit the Simple:Press Forum download pages
Version: 2.1
Released: 15th October 2007
WordPress: Version 2.04 up to 2.3.3 ONLY
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As the name suggests, Simple Forum is a simple and straightforward forum that does the sort of stuff a forum is supposed to. It is fully integrated with WordPress and the WP User system and has grown from being simple to being very richly featured because people keep asking for extra and exciting stuff! See the Features page for a complete list of the main features and some screen captures.
If you want to see it in action, then you can visit and browse through my Support Forum for which it was originally written.
Please note, this plugin requires WordPress version 2.04 or above to function correctly. It also requires Javascript to be enabled. And if you just want to have a play, it comes with a complete uninstall option that removes everything! Also on the download page is a full User Guide in PDF format which can be downloaded separate from the plugin.
Please Note:
I offer support for my plugins via the Support Forum only. I will NOT respond to support queries left in the comment section below and, in most cases, will also not publish them. Of course, if you’d like to say something nice or helpful, then feel free to leave a comment! I do prune them from time to time.
Does not have mod-rewrite ?
Something like /forum/board-unicid/threadname-unicid 
It’s on my list. Preferred to get the framework in place first… besides, I need to do some learning! Looking into ajax as well for some of the bits.
My priorities are seo and optimization, so… framework and ajax are my last worries. I said mod-rewrite and especialy in that form because it will be a very good reason for many people to use this plugin. Also for large blogs/forums a wp-cache compatibiliti will be nice.
What a GREAT PLUGIN! HIGHLY recommended…it’s the easiest and most versatile I’ve ever found…plus, it adds a great new level of interactivity to any blog.
wow,
looks good and to be honest I would love to see the suggestions from Bloggero turned reality
keep up the good work
Structure and functionality before SEO, I’m with ya there! From a look at the Support Forum here, seems like a great implementation of forums so far. My dreams for possible consideration in future versions (read: maybe eventually) would revolve around blurring the lines even further between the blog and the forum.
For example, what I’d love to see is admins being able to mark a forum post to be displayed as a blog post as well and vice versa, defineable on a per post or per category basis. In this manner you could have a “Simple Forum Announcements” category on your blog associated with the same category/section of your forum in which it would be flagged that topics could only be started by the admin and all posts to that section would be posted in the associated blog category. For such posts, commenting could be redirected to the forums or displayed inline but kept in sync. Is this making sense or just getting confusing?
Further integration would just be along the lines of functions to output lists of links to topics for posting recent/hot/whatever topics lists on pages/sidebars. If category association (between blog categories and forum sections) you could go as far as providing only links that are relavent to the category of the post/page one is browsing.
This could all be far out of the scope of the plugin/project, but the whole idea of tighter integration/crossover between the forum part and the “blog” part is something I’ve failed to find with other WP/forum integration so I thought I’d throw the general ideas out there.
The only other nicety I can think of at the moment is something I always look for in forums: threading. Your comment section here makes wonderful use of threading… I’d think a forum to match a site of this calibur would definitely include such a feature.
That’s just my wishlist, so put it on file somewhere for now if you wish. So far I’m terribly impressed with your effort already and it has more functionality than it even really needs, so kudos to you on this addition to your excellent collection of plugins! I’ll be trying out a few of them in a new personal project and likely be back to bother you with more concrete thoughts/feedback in the future.
Cheers,
Jason
Hi Jason
There is some thought provoking stuff in here some of which I like. Especially the notion of linking a forum to a category. That certainly has a lot of merit and will go on my list straight away. I’m not too sure about the forum as post notion but give me time to think it through!
Threading is one of those things - as far as forums go - that people either love or loathe. I made an early decision ot to thread for two reasons really. One - people I talked to came out in favour of no threading as they just find it confusing. Two - it was supposed to be a ’simple’ forum plugin! Well - it’s getting less and less simple so perhaops I ought to re-think that one through!
Thanks for the comments - it all helps.
Glad you could find something you liked out of that mess!
I went a little overboard with the forum post showing up elsewhere description. Perhaps a good simple example would be the bbpress post plugin. Just note the “Discuss in forum” link on the post. Not a wonderful implementation, but in case my description was too confusing that may give a better general idea of what I meant. Now that I think about it, what i had in mind for that part is not really a good fit to the scale of this project as the features would be used on more forum-driven sites than sites with simple forums in them.
Understood about the threading. Simple is in the name of the plugin after-all, hehe. Oh well, if it does become too complex, you can always maintain the functionality you wanted in the simple forum plugin and make a version-less-simple (a play on “life less ordinary” which likely only makes sense in my head) to develop as a seperate plugin with additional features. It would make it easy to focus on the core while toying with extended features from ideas that may temp you. I know how it goes when the ball gets rolling in that direction, haha. Nice how I make it sound like you have all this infinite time to do these things eh?
Best regards,
Jason
This is definitely one of the most professional, interesting and cleanly presented blogs on the net. Oh and did I mention that your plugins are the best. I wish all WP plugins were created so thoroughly and with clear instruction. Well done. As a web developer and not a coder - you make the job of creating a functional website easier. Thanks.
Gosh - I’m blushing! Thanks for the kind words of encouragement.
Absolutely excellent! If there was a donate link, I would use it. Great plugin! Thanks much!
Thanks.
There, er, is a donate link…. just below the download button
Do feel free to use it….
Does this plugin integrate with the blogs existing registered users or does it require forum users to re-register? I think you can guess which I regard as preferable! (apologies if this is a FAQ a cursory site search didn’t reveal the answer)
Yes - it will treat pre-registered users as members.
Hey mate. I’ve been developing a theme for a website, and we’re gonna be using Simple Forum for this! =)
However, we require support for multiple administrators.
Thus, I hacked it in!
I added this tiny function into sf-support.php:
function sf_adminid($id){
global $sf_hack_admins;
if(!isset($sf_hack_admins)) $sf_hack_admins = explode(’;', get_option(’sfadmin’));
foreach($sf_hack_admins as $admin){ if($id == $admin) return true; }
return false;
}
Then I replaced all instances of “ADMINID” with a call to this function. The sole instance of “ADMINNAME” (in sf_filter_name) was removed and limited to the stripslashes($username); that normal users get.
Just split different admins by ;
“4;2;23;93″ would be an example. =)
Cheers!
Linus
Excellent stuff Linus! I was thinking a little along these lines myself. I just hadn’t decided whether to allow for multiple ‘admins’ (as you have) - or - to have the one ‘Admin’ but to introduce a separate class of ‘Moderator’. Either way - it’s on the list (maybe for 1.5 soon) so I might just pinch your code
Lovely! Go right ahead!
Hello. I wish you will include “visual recognition” technique when someone registers at the forum. I worried when bots will discover it, they might spam at the forums. Anyway, great work makes up great people. Kudos.
I’m going to give this a try. The one thing I don’t see addressed is any possibility to import posts from other forum software. I’ve got a LOT of posts in an old phpBB database, and quite a few in xdforum tables. So it’s either force users to start over while still keeping the xdforum around (no, I’m NOT leaving the phpBB one up - WAY too dangerous!) or force users to start over WITHOUT keeping the xdforum too.
Feel free to write one.. the table structure is easy to deal with
Visual Recognition?
I should add that the forum registration uses the WP code to do its stuff.
Hi again, included in my wish list is to have an ability to pin a certain post. I believe the name simple forum will be soon defeated. It should be renamed for another else because its getting more better.
By post I assume you mean ‘topic’ - yes? You can do that now. So do you mean something else?
yes, i mean the post, not the topic. I have tried that already. I would like it to appear always at the top of all the posts and the rest of the recent replies would follow. Very useful if a certain post contains services or products offered. Anyway, thank you for your concern.
Gotcha. I can see that….
Yes, like the others have said — extremely well done. Could it be more easy to install? copy, unzip, activate, Done and done in less than one minute! And thanks for the easy css editing too — I appreciate your attention to detail. I don’t know if anyone will come my site and use simple forum, but I am happy to know it is there.
well, nice toy to play with
Jason,
I am in total agreeance with you. I acidentally stumbled across you comment while looking at Simple Forum for the same pupose.
Unfortunately, from what I have found, there does not seem to be any software that performs both forums and blogging seamlessly. Which I find interesting, because they are pretty close to being the same information, just presented differently.
Perhaps the best approach would be to start with existing forum software (I personally think it is a bit more complicated than blog sofware) and then adding blogging feature to it.
Any thoughts Andy?
Jeremy
I can see all of this! And I haven’t ignored nor abandoned any of Jason’s ideas. But there seemed to me a baseline of functionality that needed to be put in place before starting to experiement more around the edges. And 1.6 is that goal. I thought I’d start ’simple’ with the notion of a post/forum link and see how it grows from there. i DO think this is probably minority interest stuff but having said that so is the idea of having a forum on your weblog as well!
So - hopefully, I can start to expand this out now and see where I can ‘blur’ the edges so as to speak. All ideas by the way, are welcome, as long as they are sane!
Oh, I totally agree. And I am certainly not going to force you to do something if you don’t want to do it. It is your software.
I just happened to come across this discussion this past weekend in my hours of searching for a solution to my made up problem.
I just find it interesting that there is not a solution out there already (that I could find). To me, it makes perfect sense, but maybe I am off my rocker.
I wrote up an article this morning on the problem if you want to take a peek at what I have discovered.
Jeremy
Simply put, you’re brilliant!
Hi Andy .. I thought I would just let you know that I’ve installed version 1.6 on my v2.1 blog .. and looks good! I thought I was toss you a bone, but all I had was kibbles .. hopefully it covers a nice Large coffee or Latte or something
// Take care.
HART
It’s the thought that counts
thanks
Very nice work on that! Was searching for quite some time now for a good integrating forum for WP, only bit of a downside (imo) is the small possibilities in post-formatting
I tried and put -code- tags in the post (and yes I used the HTML button from TinyMCE) but as soon as I close the popup to get back to WYSIWYG the -code- tags just disappear and are being converted to -p- tags 
Is there any chance I can change that quickly in the source or can you implement such thing (a list of allowed html-tags or such) in the next release?
Anyways, kudos for this nice product *applaud*
I am currently looking for a ‘code’ happy resolution to this problem within TinyMCE.
But if your forum was destined to be ‘code’ tag heavy, then the Quicktags option would probably be more suitable anyway. At least that’s what I have always found.
well i was actually talking about something like this :
<code>my sourcecode to be formatted here..
</code>
and such stuff, so I mean real HTML tags to use within the TinyMCE
(maybe we’re just talking about the same, and I don’t get it
)
Yes - I was talking abut the same thing.
Rich text editors like TinyMCE strip things like the code tags. As you have found. As I said above, I am currently searching for a ‘code’ happy fix to try and get this working as I want this also.
But as I also said, if you trun off the RTE (In the forum options) and use the QuickTags instead then the code tag is supported. For a forum that might need to display a lot of code tags and code fragments, I have always found the QuickTags (as used on this comment form) to be far superior as your html tends to be preserved.
Try out 1.7. Try entering the code tag.. I think I’ve almost got it right!
Heya Andrew
tried it with disabled RTE and upgraded to 1.7, but as soon as i hit the Code Button I get this Error via Firebug :
I can use them buttons in the normal Wordpress-Writing
Strange - just ran it all past Firebug here without any problems or errors at all. Seems rugged and behaving itself. This is running Firefox on a Mac. So I’m not sure what to make of that. Sorry. Are you able to give me any pointers? I’ll try and do some research but it’s hard when I can’t replicate the problem. I’ll look at the qt code this evening though see if I can find anything obvious…
As an aside, whilst there is no ‘code’ button in the RTE, I have coded up a fix to the problem and it should now work with manually entered code tags.
did you actually ran the test on your developement environment or did you use my forum ?
but I will try and uninstall the whole forum delete the files on my server and then reinstall the thingmy, gonna write you soon how it went is maybe just a bugged file from corrupt ftp-transfer
and thx for all your effort, kudos for that *bow*
and oh, b4 I forget, entering the actual code-tag does work indeed
Hey Andy,
I just stumbled across another project that you might find interesting. It has different goals than yours, however.
It is a mod to embed WordPress into phpBB. I plan on checking it out in more detail this weekend.
It is at http://www.wp-united.com.
But this whole thought of converging Blogging and Forums seems to be moving along. Of course, full CMS programs have been moving towards that for a while. However, they tend to have a lot of overhead and be complicated to set up. Blog + Forums in my mind seems to be more natural for smaller sites.
I’ll look it up - might be interesting. In fact, loading in another tab as I write this.
I’ve re-read the comments above and also read with much interest your piece on your own site.
I would welcome hearing some more concrete and formed ideas. I could start going down one route that would satisfy nobody and that would be a waste whereas if you have a set of hard ideas then please do let me know - perhaps email me via the contact on the left sidebar. It would be helpful.
Jeremy - that link didn’t seem to take me anywhere…?
Weird… maybe because I finished it with a period?
http://www.wp-united.com
I will preview this one.
It seemed to work.
Looks wonderful.
I will use it on my website.
All other forums were eather hard to install or crapy.
The forum is working nicely! Very user-friendly. My only problem is that I don’t see where users can register. I have a register/subscribe icon but it never shows up anywhere. How do I activate this? Thanks!
Hi,
I’m having a problem with the forum. I’ve downloaded the SF 1.7 and have activated the plugin. But when I visit the forum page, it says not found! I’ve checked the page slug and the page id and it matches with the SF options. I use wordpress 2.1.2. Please help!!
P.S: I liked the forums a lot when I was using WP 2.0 and an earilier version of SF. Its after the new installation of WP 2.1 that the problem seems to have come up. I don’t know if its the problem with SF or WP. Please help. I’ll give you any more information if you want.
LOL! Thanks SF 1.8 works just fine!!
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Pure genius! Thank you for providing a much-needed solution to my forums dilemma. I have deleted the other forum plugin I was struggling to get to work after seeing results with Simple Forum in less than 5 minutes.
How can an Admin delete posts?
would be nice to have an upload image feature, other then that this is perfect man. Thanks
Is this something that I can use to answer my question for a “general comment” forum?
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/111469
I doubt it - this is a pretty straightforward forum - separate from comments.
Amazing stuff you have here! was looking for a simple forum for a client. bbpress and other forums require quite abit of hacking to get them to embed themselves or to look similar to the wordpress blog its on but this… this lives inside a page! I applied a page template removing the sidebars and title and was all set to go.
Just out of curiousity, did you code this from nothing?
Also, your documentation shows a great amount of effort.
Thanks!
YH
What?? you took 5 min!? =P
Glad you like it and find it useful. Yes - I coded it uo because I couldn’t find one that either seemed to work; that I liked; or was still supported. It was suposed to be ’simple’….!
Thanks for the comments.
I’m so impressed with your work, I don’t even know where to begin. Amazing! I’ll be customizing your genius for days…
Skinplistic.com/forum
Wow..I just downloaded this and already I am impressed.
I SUCK at technology and you are a saint in your detail and HELP!
Thanks you…
donations to follow shortly!
Thank you.
I hope you do find it useful.
First of all I really like the forum plugin. The only thing im missing is a recent comments add-on for the forum, something that put a list with recent posts/comments from the forum in the sidebar or main page. Maybe someone know where I could find a compatible and similar plugin?
peace
/Mattias
Are the template tags that come with it not what you need?
Yes and no, I dont know much about php, but I think I got it working…
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The forum works great. only one important thing is missing at my forum. I can not see where users can register. I’ve tried every options, but i can’t see the register button on the forum
greetz J
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It’s very nice.I setup it in my blog.I like it.Thanks.
But in the sub-forums,my page-menus has mixed :S
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It’s seems good!
Thankx for this plugin .. Installed .. created a group then i created a forum ..
but when i go to mydomain.com/sf-forum/ i see only this :
Simple Forum
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I can’t find where to login as admin .. and where can i see all that butons that u have showed in SF-110 Guide ? I mean this : Login , register, logout , profile , add new topic .. etc…
Please help me .. i can figure out how it is ..
Wow, this plugin is VERY nicely done.
This might be a silly question, but I don’t suppose it’s possible to export this to a new forum (like vBulletin or Invision) if the membership outgrows it?
It’s very nice
Of course it’s a silly question! The answer is that if you know the data structures of both then it might be possible but that’s a big ‘might be’.
Are you using 2.2? If so - look at the Announcement forum list - I have added one to deal with a 2.2 bug.
If that’s not the issue can you raise this in the support forum please as I don’t officially respond to support in comments - as is stated above.
Formidable, bravo !!!
ability to upload images in next version ?
thanks a lot
Pierre
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In my case (wp 2.2) I had to create the forum page myself, because it did not do it for me (the docs say it should though)… After that things were fine (only needed to fix the page template to make thing look good).
It could be you used the install that had a bug! But after that was fixed there are still reasons that can stop the page creation. It is possible - with som e other plugins installed - that the page was created but doesn’t show up in your page list. This is covered in the forum guide pdf.
Thank you for this forum
You’re welcome.
I have a basic installation of WP 2.2 with only the default plugins, and I used your lates download. I looked in the Mysql tables and the page was not there either… Well The problem was fixed my creating the page…
Now I have a problem with the Search option, it dosent find the posts, only managed to find 1 post out of 3 I created… I will write this bug report in the Forum…
I just wanted to say this plugin is perhaps the best i’ve dove into yet. Very clean, well written code, and excellent documentation and support. Good job and thanks.
Takbax
When i log into your forum running WP 2.2 with Simple Forum 1.11 my last visited date is not updating for users. It says ‘Last Visit: December 31, 1969′
Any idea or suggestions in what i’m missing or if this is a bug for other users?
Thanks,
mAYBE ONE OF THE BEST CREATIONS SINCE THE WHEEL.
tHANKS!
Seems like the ideal plug-in for my site. Thanks for sharing.
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I would like to know what plugin you are using on your blog to implement nested comments. Thank you.
Open the ‘About’ menu at the top and select ‘WordPress Plugins’ and you’ll see it in the list with a link to the authors site.
Thank you very much for your reply.
Hey Andy,
Thanks for your Simple Forum plugin. It seems much better to me than RS but one should never knock the competition. I managed to install your SF without trouble. It fitted into my theme seamlessly. On the surface everything looked fine. I spent several hours setting up various forums, and then I posted a message, and got the following error:
Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: No ending delimiter ‘:’ found in /home/blog/public_html/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 648.
Help, please! What can the problem be? I went in search of other solution but trying to integrate phpBB with WordPress is like studying for a pHD. Any ideas what the issue might be here?
Cheers,
Paul
ps: This is a nice web site, by the way, and I especially like this comment form. Where can I get it?
lol ey als ich gestern mal wieder spazieren ging .. bin ich hingefallen
I had a tiny issue. The plugin installed and activated fine, but when I went to the admin page, I got a "Failed to create sf_track" MySQL error.
I went into the sf-upgrade.php file and removed the bit after the closing bracket in the create commands (ENGINE=… DEFAULT …blah etc.) and it solved it.
All working. I"ve had this error with quite a few recent plugins. Guess it must be a MySQL config thing at my web provider"s end?
The "Title in page name" feature still doesn"t work right in 2.2.1 either.
Apart from those minors, this seriously kicks ass. Great plugin - thank you
Hi Graeme
Thanks. I"d be most interested to know what your host says about the engine and charset settings if you ever get around to asking them.
And - as far as I am aware at the moment - the page title problem is not fixed in WP 2.3 early builds either!
Thank you for the 2.0-Version. It"s great.
There"s a little fault in the german translation (2.0). It should be "abonnieren" (two "n").
Hi edgar
I thought I"d corrected that - but I see there was more than one instance. Apologies - it will be fuly corrected on the next upload.
Ten thumbs up. Thanks for this great plugin!!!!!!
Excellent forum plugin - thank you. I even managed to remove the right sidebar for the forum page. One big problem is that my WP login username is displayed on all my posts even when I change the forum display name. I wouldn’t want this information showing for registered users either. I’m surprised no one else has had this problem. This is a major problem as it gives everyone in the world half my login information to my WP backend.
Maybe I’m missing something or there’s an easy fix. Please Help. Thanks.
Great plugin. The best I’ve seen yet. I’ve used a couple that could not compare to this. You even allowed for image links in the editor. The sad thing is that, alot of my users don’t have a place to store images online or know how to store them online so it would be very nice if members could upload images to include in discussions. Maybe an upload image button next to the submit button that automatically added the image to the post.
That would be killer!
"Page Menu" mess up with "Simple Forum 2.1beta"
Wordpress: 2.3
Theme: K2 RC1
SimpleForum: 2.1betaProblem Details:
I have page menu shown normally, until I enter one of the forum, then the page menus jam together.
Other Suggestion:
Provide "page-templates-for-simple-forum.php" for we users!!
PS: What is your e-mail address? I can send you a screenshot of the issue!
This plugin is really great! Good job! Ich liebe es einfach.
Hello Andy
I use SF only for the autors of my blog (with WP 2.3).
I updated it yesterday with the version 2.1.
If SF is activated, and if I want to manage all my pages, I don’t see any page, I’ve a blank page.
If I save a post or a page, I’ve an error message : Error 500 - Internal server error.
If I deactivate SF, I’ve no more problem.
I actualised the permalinks in WordPress and in SF, deactivated an reactivated SF,…
But I’ve always the same dysfunction.
Lise
Oh how I wish I had found this before now. When I first setup my WP blog I went with SMF as my forums package - which I don’t regret but Simpleforums appears to be a much better solution for being able to provide a much better "brand" solution for unifing a blog and forums together.
If I ever had an import mechanism to import my SMF forums into SimpleForums I would probably jump at it especially if SF theme worked from the existing blog theme.
Nice job and even though I don’t know if I will use SF you most definitely will be seeing a donation from me next month (I live off them - so to speak - as well) in a show of support for what seems to be a great solution
Thank you Steven. I do get asked from time to time about importers and I know a small handful of people have imported (although not, as far as I recall from SMF) but if I started coding that I wouldn’t have time for anything else! Anyway - personaly I think SMF is about the best one out there anyway….
Thank you for this great plugin. Forgive me for this question, but I can’t seem to find your documentation for it. Is it on this site, or in the plugin files?
Thanks a lot.
@Russ
It’s on the same page that you downloaded the plugin from.
Ah, thanks so much. Someone has given me the zip file on a disc so I didn’t even look at the download page. Much appreciated.
Just installed your plugin, customised the CSS, and it’s working nicely. I’m using SF 2.1 and WP 2.3.1.
Thanks!
See it in action here:
http://journal.marisaduma.net/support-group/
Thanks! Great job. I think your forum plugin is better than bbpress cuz bbpress is very slow and it look likes very basic. I mean no visual editor etc.
Thanks for this great plugin!!
What a great plugin. It installed speedily as well as easily. I had it up and running in a few minutes. Thanks so much.
Great plugin’s forum. Use in my blog. Thanks for your work.
Great plugin to have! I just installed in on my blog and it works fine. Just a question though, how do I change the default time zone?
Kind regards
Incompatibility with Link Indication plugin on WP 2.3. (Post Management Icon).
Multiple vulnerabilities in Simple Forum!
https://www.securinfos.info/english/security-advisories-alerts/20080129-Simple-Forum-Multiple-Vulnerabilities.php
take care
Excellent plugin, excellent.
I only miss the nice URLs, but still very good.
And my own forum (in Spanish) is here.
Thanks
Securinfos:
Considering you give your own link as the one in the URL bulletin it surprises me that you come here? This is NOT THE SIMPLE FORUM YOU ARE LOOKING FOR…
You will find that at http://simpleforum.net/
This is a WORDPRESS PLUGIN THAT JUST HAS THE SAME NAME.
This is an amazing script to use with wordpress.
Very unique
The great plugin. Thanks for your job.
very good, love your work and looking forward to the release of the Simple:Press Forum 3.0 unless there is a beta available
What an excellent Wordpress plug in! Kudos to you
I’ve got some little problems with padding between post titles and the forum plugin. You can see the problem in my blog abogado. Any idea? I need some help.
Congrats for your great plugin!!
Great Work! Thanks… I’m gonna to try it on my blog.
Hi Andy,
Excellent plug-in man.
I am jealous of u….how can u make such a nice and useful plug-in.
I am using it in my web site at http://techiezone.in
Andy: I thought I’d add my support to Jeremy’s ideas on further blog-forum integration. I can see this having tremendous community building potential especially in niches like mine where readers are already very comfortable with the forum format.
One of my concerns though is the potential SEO impact of duplicating content between blog and forum. I’ve been rolling some ideas in my head but haven’t fully formed anything just yet.
Also is there a place to see what new functionality you’re working on? I’m excited to see where you’re going next.
Finally, thanks for a wonderful piece of software.
The core of Jeremy’s notion - the links between blog and forum - have been in place for a couple of versions now.
As to next phases well - yes - read the most recent post on this site. V3 is about to enter a selected beta phase.
Thanks vmuch for this one. This really helps me a lot to stand out of the crowd of my fellow blog community here.
Thank you very much!
The plugin is fantastic!
I have spend so much time to find the right one….and now i find it…!!!
Thank you!
Thank you!
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Any thoughts on using simple press forum to replace WP’s default post/page commenting?
I personally see a big design disconnect between posting in the forums and posting a comment on a page. They just don’t look or act the same. If SPF could replace WP’s commenting system, it would tie everything together more cohesively. Also, the added features available in SPF would make it very useful as a commenting system.
Just a thought that I figured was worth throwing out there. I love this plugin. It just makes maintaining a community site so much easier.
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