Groups Forums provides a powerful and yet light-weight forum system for WordPress sites.
Based on the free WordPress plugin Groups, unlimited forums can be maintained, where every user or only members of a group are able to post and reply to topics in a forum, while forums are still visible to the public [1].
Features
- Front End and Back End topic submission
- Topic Moderators
- Sticky topics
- Subscribe to topics with the option to leave a reply or not
- Customizable notifications with Groups Notifications
- Support for theme templates with theme-neutral default templates provided for topics and forums
- Widgets included : Forums, Topics, Topic Tags, Topic Search
- Shortcodes included : list forums, let users submit and edit topics on the Front End, show user’s topics, topic tag clouds and topic search form
- More information is available in the online Documentation
Demo
Give it a try! You can register a user account on the Demo site to post topics and replies.
Documentation
Detailed information about the plugin is available in the Documentation.
Feedback & Suggestions
…are welcome and can be posted on the plugin page.
[1] If protected forums (hidden from public viewing) is a feature that would be welcome, please drop a note there. Currently you can only protect topics individually using the access restrictions provided by Groups.