Description
Simple:Press brings enterprise class forum capabilities to your WordPress site. It makes it easy to get your forum started with additional powerful features available as you need them.
Built for performance with custom tables, it is tightly integrated into WordPress’s user and security model and can easily scale up to thousands of users.
Unlike other Forum plugins, all of Simple:Press’s features are built and supported by one organization – no need to contact multiple vendors when you need support for a feature!
And Simple:Press has hundreds of features! Between the free functions and premium add-ons we likely have just about every feature you might need.
From multi-level forum structures to post threading and private messages, chances are that if you need a feature we have already built it. 13+ years of development has exposed us to all kinds of customer requirements and has helped us build a rock-solid product!
Go premium! A premium bundle of our add-ons will super-charge your forum! Simple-Press Pricing Options!
What does it do?
Maybe the better question should be – what doesn’t it do? Here are just some of the features that are included!
Forums
- Unlimited Forums
- Forum Groups
- Sub-forums to any level
- Private and public forums
- Custom icons for each forum
- Lock forums
- Pin forums
- Always-on forum messages
User Management and Features
- Powerful user group and permission system
- Restrict user access to wp-admin
- Custom avatars
Post Management
- Unread post handling
- Post moderation
Administration
- Comprehensive administration options and settings
- Merge forums
- Flood control
Integration
- Fully integrated with WordPress registrations and logins
- Supports standard and multi-site versions of WordPress
- Complete uninstall/removal option
Ranking and Gamification
- Specify ranks based on the number of posts
- Upgrade user group membership as users progress through their ranks
- Assign special ranks to individual users that override the standard ranks
- Assign custom badges to each rank
Seo
- Customizable forum slug
- Featured forum images used by the Open Graph meta tag
- Multiple options for the browser display and title
Login and Registration
- Use the standard WP login and registration screens
- Use alternate custom login and registration screens (such as those from membership and ecommerce plugins)
- Specify custom redirect pages after login and registration
Theming
- Fully theme and template driven
- Choose from a selection of free and premium themes
- Custom CSS overrides
- Integrated icons and iconsets
General and Misc
- Extensive help
- Help text on every admin element
- Smileys and custom smiley files
- Global custom messages for certain events
Premium Extensions
With our premium extensions you can take your forum to the next level. From integrated analytics with beautiful charts to push notifications via sms and email, we have just about everything you might need to run a successful forum!
You can get all of our extensions in one of three bundles – check out your options at simple-press.com.
Extensions
- Analytics (Colorful charts with data about your forum)
- Ads (Sophisticated advertising engine inside the forum)
- Private messaging system
- Push Notifications via SMS, Pushover and PushBullet
- WooCommerce dashboard integration
- Reputation System
- Topic Subscriptions (with email notifications)
- Warnings and Suspensions
- Custom user profile fields
- Answers Topics
- Post ratings
- Post by email
- Topic Status
- Polls
- Image, media and file uploader
- Blog post linking
- TinyMCE Editor
- Threading
- Template tags and widgets
- BuddyPress Integration
- Share This
- Search
- Admin Bar
- Post preview
- Mentions
- Watches
- Tags
- XML Sitemap
- MYCred Integration
- HTML Emails
- Private posts
- Achievements Integration
- Cubepoints Integration
- BBCode Editor
- HTML Editor
- Post Thanks
- Captcha
- Uploads Viewer
- Post Ask
- Search by user
- Profanity Filter
- Auto linking
- Add user Identities
- Keywords
- Syntax Highlighting
- Hide Posters
- Ban
- Gravatar Cache
- Who’s Online
- Post Anonymously
- Print topic
- Membership Subscriber
- Language and theme selection
- Report post
- Font resizer
- Unanswered Topics
- Birthdays
- Rank Information
- Topic Description
- Topic Expired
- Topic Redirect
- Topic ID Permalinks*
- Policy Documents
- Slack Integration
- Post in multiple forums
- Remove spam registrations
- Event logger
- Featured Topics and Posts
- Maintenance
- Profile Display Control
- Prune Database
- Moderation Email
- Timezone on Registration
Premium Bundles
Purchase one of our bundles to get premium support directly from us
View Pricing Options
Compatibility
Simple:Press was built to be compatible with most themes, both free and commercial.
Languages
Simple:Press is available in a variety of languages and volunteers and customers are always adding more! Portions of the plugin have been translated into 20+ languages by our users and volunteers. These include German, Portuguese(BR), Arabic, Chinese, French, Italian, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish and more!
View our translation site
Team
Our core developers are:
- Andy Staines
- Steve Klasen
- Muhammad Tahir Nazir
Screenshots
Installation
Using The WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
- Search for ‘Simple Press’
- Click ‘Install Now’
- Activate the plugin on the Plugin dashboard
Uploading in WordPress Dashboard
- Download
simplepress.zip
from this page - Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
- Select
simplepress.zip
from your computer - Click ‘Install Now’
- Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
Using FTP
- Download
simplepress.zip
from this page - Extract the
simplepress
directory to your computer - Upload the
simplepress
directory to the/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
Setup
Whatever the method you used, after you activated the plugin through the plugins dashboard, you now need to run through a set-up process. This creates the tables and default data that the plugin requires.
You can access this setup process by either clicking the INSTALL button that should be visible at the top of the admin pages or by going to FORUM->INSTALL.
At the conclusion of a successful install, a button will be displayed to load the forum admin and clicking on this will take you to the Storage Locations panel. All being well, all locations will be ticked as created and available but if this is not the case follow the instructions to manually create folders if necessary.
Getting Started
Now that you have installed your forums read our getting started pages.
FAQ
- I’ve installed the plugin – now what?
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Now that you have installed your forums read our getting started pages.
- I don’t receive e-mail notifications
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There are several factors that can influence e-mail notifications delivery. The best thing you can do to diagnose email delivery issues is to install a plugin that shows you an email log. We recommend MAILGUN or SMTP POST. The logs will let you know if emails are being generated and not delivered or just not being generated at all.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Simple:Press – WordPress Forum Plugin” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
ContributorsTranslate “Simple:Press – WordPress Forum Plugin” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
Warning: Updating from 5.x to 6.x should be done manually! See this document for details
6.2.1
- Fix
- G00068: Resolve an issue with wpColorPicker not being loaded properly. This affected a lot of the admin screens including the ability to create a new forum.
6.2.0
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New
- Iconsets – allow forum and other graphics to be selected from font-awesome and other icomoon compatible iconsets.
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Improved
- G00055: Use codemirror for CSS editor in WP 4.9 or later.
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Fix
- G00054: Resolve an issue with ordering and sorting forums.
- G00057: Update the filename used to pull information about translations for the Simple:Press dashboard.
- G00000: Remove an errant period that was appearing in a message in the licensing screen.
- G00058: Editing CSS for themes did not work in prior 6.x versions.
- G00021: Uploading smileys in the admin area threw an error in the debug.log file.
- G00000: Increase the timeout used when manually checking for plugin updates. The prior value of 5000 was too low so its now set to 50000.
6.1.0
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New
- G0039: Added Instagram Identity
- G0000: Added easy digital downloads license integration
- G0000: Added a button to take users to review simple:press on wordpress.org
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Improved
- G0046: Add the option to show/hide forum rank labels on the front-end members list screen via the template tag.
- G0038: Remove identities that no longer make sense.
- G0038: Add option to FORUM->OPTIONS->MEMBER SETTINGS to allow display of deprecated identities.
- G0037: Add option for a 2nd custom message above the editor (FORUM->COMPONENTS->CUSTOM MESSAGES). This way you can have a different custom message for new topics vs new posts.
- G0010: Add editors to messages fields in FORUM->COMPONENTS->CUSTOM MESSAGES
- G0000: Made radio buttons in admin look like radio buttons instead of checkboxes.
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Fix
- G0000: Update the text for the customization service on the help and troubleshooting page.
- G0036: Fix plugin library link on help and plugin page.
- G0012: Fix pricing plan link on help and plugin page.
- G0011: Fix theme library link on help and plugin page.
- G0007: Radio buttons should look like radio buttons in the admin area.
- G0004: URL for Premium Support link on plugins page is incorrect
- G0005: URL for Documentation link on plugins page is incorrect
- G0003: Move post to existing topic not working
- G0002: Move post to new topic form css issue
- G0001: Fix Malformed changelog url
- G0000: Spelling and grammar related changes to help files for the FORUM->COMPONENT->CUSTOM MESSAGES screen
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Dev
- G0000: Added new function to allow editors to be painted in admin
- G0000: Added new function to allow date pickers to be painted in admin – utilizes the JqueryUI Date Picker library from WP.
- G0000: Added additional icons to the icon font file to be used by the new Analytics and Ad plugins.
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Other
- This is the first version being built and deployed from our github repository
6.0.6
- Fix
- M-5993: Locked forums/topics were allowing user to post despite being locked
6.0.5
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New
- GDPR Enhancement – allow option to annoymize posts or delete posts
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Fix
- Current user re-assignment to Guest status does not remove IP address from posts
- Delete User from WP admin screen – SP radio buttons malformed
- Incorrect function being called when filtering PRE tags.
- Handle simplepress and simple-press in CSS selector for nav menu icons
- General and Miscellaneous Cleanups
6.0.4
- Fix
- Issue with installation into a folder with a name other than simple-press
- Issue with new installations and the sample data that is installed
6.0.3
- New
- First version released on WordPress.org.