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By: dfrgfthz
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By: YourAnIdiot
By: Viv
This Wordpress plugin will add forum capability to your Wordpress installation. Wordpress Forum Server is much more than just a fork of the WP-Forum plugin. We have fixed many errors that existed for months; added a new theme; sdded 2.7/2.8 menus for a much more up-to-date look. Change a bit of the code around.>/p>
This is not just a renamed plugin. Try WP-Forums and Forum Servern and see for yourself. The owner of WP-Forums does not offer any help at all for his plugin and had not been updated when WFS was created.
Plugin Instructions: For all install instructions and plugin information view this sites readme files. Click on this plugins icon to enter all its info from the readme page.
Plugin Support: Please use the support forums for all support questions. Any support questions left on this pages comments will be ignored.
Love that someones taking over the forum plugin development.
Above it says “Support questions asked in the comments section will not be ignored.” Should it say “will be ignored”?
thanks for providing the plugin!
haha, yes it should
FYI, I auto-installed this plugin via my wordpress blog, it activates OK, but the admin bar down left hand side for the plugin is not visible.
I came here to download and then upload via my FTP then I realised, the auto install via Wordpress includes too many top level folders, but yours on this site doesn’t, thus this one works!
Thanks.
I should have the folder problem from wordprss.org fixed now so the download from the wordpress.org site works.
Hi,
I just tried installing your forum, and received the following: [Table 'C259540_wordpress0.wp_forum_threads' doesn't exist], and was wondering how to rectify this error.
Cheers.
Please visit the support forums for a solution to this error
Is it compatible with wordpress 2.7.1 ? I am getting numerous errors.
Please use the forums to list the errors. Yes it works with 2.7.1
Doesn’t work with 2.8
Mine works fine with 2.8. Please use the forums to get some help because it does work. It was just released with 2.8
Is it free?
Yes. The download link is above.
Hello Mr Hamby,
I wonder if there is any feature-list for this plugin..? I had a look around and didnt find any. Things like if it shares WP-users would be great to know.
Also, how would you say this plugin compare with “SimplePress Forum”. I get the feeling that this one is a little more light then SPF..?
Regards
oh, and I also wonder about if its easy to translate the language.
Your work is excellent
Thanks
Thank you for doing this! I love the layout, the only problem is that on my site, the font color kind of blends in with the background and is a bit difficult to read. If you go to my site and click the Chat forum tab, you’ll see what I mean. Can you tell me how to fix this please?
You cant rip anything that is released under the GPL license. Its available for anyone to develop and release on there own. This plugin has many many more changes than the original, first being that this one actually works.
You cannot strip away the GPL license though (as you have done). Furthermore you can’t loose the copyright of the original author (you should just add to it). That is stealing.
Emotionally, I guess what is at the core of the argument is that you do not do not give proper credit to the work of the original author. That is just rude.
I hope you improve in the legal and personal areas as much as you promise to improve the technical functionality of the plugin.
“You cannot strip away the GPL license though”. Who striped away the GPL lisence?
My personal areas are fine thank you. All i have done is take something that everyone wanted and that the original author refused to fix, and abandoned and picked it up and continued it (with credit to him for making it in the first place). Your the one im sure being more rude by coming and leaving a comment like that.
Im still not sure what you mean by stripping the GPL. I have followed every rule Wordpress has set and am well within Wordpress and GPL boundaries.
I do give credit to the author because he started the plugin, however he never finished it, nor even develops it any more, and hasn’t in a while. Has i have said many times download his version, then download my and you wont see to much thats the same. In fact most of all his code was thrown out and redone.
What now? Stealing and lying?
YOU have removed the GPL licence text from the source code. YOU have removed the all traces of the main author’s name, copyright notice and software name in the source files and replaced them all with your own. There is no mention of the original author in your distribution (apart from two small ‘misses’ on your part, I leave it to your consciousness to ‘correct’ that).
Apart from that, comparing the actual distrubutions shows that YOU have changed very little in the actual code. You have fixed a couple of bugs and made some cosmetic changes to the output and added a theme. This is surely appreciated.
But how you can state that “you wont see to much thats the same” is just incredible. Still, the main hickup is YOU do not give proper credit to the main and original author.
HMM the GPL lisence was never in the files…
Do you even use this plugin?
“This is surely appreciated.”
Then use it and leave it at that. Do 2 more things also.
1: Try to find GPL text anyplace in the original WP-Forum plugin. It may be there now but trust me it wasn’t a few weeks ago when i took it over.
2: If you like it and appreciate it then use it and stop complaining.
Has i said im still in GPL and Wordpress guidelines so if its good for them… The honestly your opinion dont matter.
“apart from two small ‘misses’ on your part,”
O so i do mention him but thats still not good enough for you.. ok. You want me to give him credit but whan i do tell people who the original creator is you call it “misses”.
If you do not like my plugin then feel free to use his.
At first I was a little skeptical about the functionality of whether or not this plugin actually works! It took a little figuring out when you paste the tag in “” make sure you do it in the html version of the page. It will not work in the visual version of a page! You seem to have left that off your instructions.
There does appear to be an issue with wordpressmu. I will post that in the forums.
Why was you skeptical about the functionality? You can not add any kind of short code to the visual editor of the Wordpress posting which is why i didn’t not include it in my instructions. I have not tested this with MU so i have no clue as to its compatibility.
Have you seen SimplePressForum.com (wana help them?)?
Btw, why did you decide to change the name? WP-Forum really suited the plugin, though the author doesn’t support the original one.
Good job on this plugin, seems to work pretty well.
Well i decided to change the name because though this plugin is originally based on the wp-forum plugin i wanted it to have its own identity. Since the original author doesn’t support wp-forum and over the last year its got a bad name i didn’t want that to affect what im trying to do.
Is SimplePress needing help?
Not really, but I thought you might be interested.
Regarding the name, how about this name? “WordForum” =D
haha to late to change the name now. Its already been indexed on a few sites and placed on wordpress.org. If i changed the name now id have to redo a bit. forumpress was on my mind for a while.
lol. Well, you better change it now, rather than after getting more than 500 users.
ForumPress, hmm… don’t you think it’s similar to your competitor’s (SimplePressForum). WordForum is much more attracted, WordPress + Forum = WordForum.
So, what do you think?
Already got well over that.
So, changing the name is out of the picture now?
More than likely yes.
Hey, who can help me I recently installed this plugin but in my page is not showing the theme of the forum is just show a text who can help me
Be sure to select a theme. By default the plugin does not use a theme. You must select one fr the admin panel of the plugin.
I have tried this using the Smooth Exclusive skin, as provided by the direct wordpress install. It appears to work fine, one I set the skin. However it did not seem to find the image for one of the graphics:
http://bluekitecoach.com/wp-content/plugins/forum-server/skins/smooth/images/new.gif
Is this missing from the install?
Hello.
To begin with thanks for good work on the plugin.
I have found a problem while editing posts…
$sql = (“UPDATE $vasthtml->t_posts SET text = ‘$content’, subject = ‘$subject’ WHERE id = $edit_post_id”);
Shouldn’t you also check if $user_id=author_id
??
At the moment I can replace the hidden edit_post_id and update not my posts…
Please let me know if I am wrong..
Regards.
Greetings from France!
First, well done for your plugin, even if it seems to be an improvement of an existing plugin.
However, some little things needs to be improved.
ie : theming your plugin is hard because of a weird management of table classes in your code!
Another thing : could you prepare your plugin for translation? ( some gettext tags aren’t correct and the text domain “vasthtml” is ambiguous (if you make many plugins) and you should maybe use “forum-server” ).
A last advice : i dunno if it’s a wordpress bug but in the admin section, the menu does not follow the selection when switching between sections. Here again I looked in your code and it seems that you need to have a page for each section in order to make this feature work properly.
I hope this could help
Regards.
Thanks for the ideas
.
With the selection active it doesn’t need to have a page for every options page, i just need to re write the code for the activation which i didn’t have time to do at the time of release. I am planing on doing that for sure though has it is very annoying to me that the active page don’t highlight.
http://vasthtml.com/support/?vasthtmlaction=viewtopic&t=20.0
At the time i wasn’t planing on making many plugins but all three i have on the site seem to be doing rather well. so i agree changes need to be made to the base code and it will be.
Let’s say that a major improvement would be translation. To be honest, your actual code’s quite ready (i only needed to change a few lines to enable it) and you only have to provide a POT file with all the captions in it.
If you want it, just ask me and you’ll have the french translation
Good luck!
to be honest i have no clue when it comes to translating. I haven’t even felt like translating into Russian yet. Email me with exactly what ya need and ill see what i can do to help yea. I guess a few translations would be nice.
The plugin wassnt dead? he didnt update it till he heard about me. And oldly enough i had posted in his forums about my fix for almost 2 weeks, then it took someone telling him about me before he even knew about this version of the plugin. Which means he went for over 2 weeks without even giving any of his users any support or viewing his forum at all… If thats not dead what is it? And please dont yell at me, yell at GPL. Yes users go back to a plugin with a author that dont give support and the plugin dont even work half the time. If he gave good support and his version worked… i wouldn’t be here with this version. You are no dought the author himself i assume. Did you not read the credits above? what do you people want me to do give him the credit for my work also? healthy and informed community? see i know you are the author because no user in that forum agrees with this statement.
Does it have backward compatibility with WP-Forum database or an importing function??
Greetings from Chile
This plugin used the same structure. No work or importing needed.
So I just need to deactivate WP-Forum an activate Forum Server?
BTW I’m working on the pot file of Forum Server, I’ll send you a mail when it’s done so it can be added on next version.
Greetings
Wow there’s a lot of hate going on with this plugin lol! I just installed it to my site and I love it. it was by far the easiest fourm plug in to install. The reason I chose this plugin instead of the original is because the original plugin had no update and it looked like there was no support for it. When I uploaded and activated Simple Press Forum it messes up my wordpress completely(And I really like what SimplePress can do).
I do have a question even though I should be asking in the forum. Is there a way that I can make a new post in my blog and have it show up as a new forum topic? And can I assign that blog post to a specific forum catagory?
I’ve seen a plugin that does it for Wordpress/SMF but it didn’t work for me.
Also is there a way that you can link a blog post and a forum topic together so that the comments are posted in both places? That would be the ultimate add on for me.
Thanks for making/fixing this plugin! Don’t let the haters get to ya!
The plugin does not yet feature this but i will in the next few release due too a large amount of people wanting this option.
Thanks for the support.
Ok cool BTW it’s a great plug already! One more question how do get my permalinks pretty for the forum topic pages?
haha, sorry to say but once again this is not a feature. I dont know of many forum boards that support this. The forum board that the plugin is based on doesn’t not which is probably why the plugin was never made with it. Ill see what all this would take and see if it can be added.
is there a way to put only certain categories that i created on specific pages? like if i just want 2 pf the 3 categories on one page and 1 on the other, is this possible?
Sorry this is not possible with this plugin. This is meant to be a very simple and easy to use solution. I like the idea though. Another way to do this would be to add multiple forum support. Hmm im liking the idea. Be a while to implement though.
The plugin looks and works very well. Would it be possible in the next version to have an option to disable the RSS feed and remove the RSS link? I would like to use it for internal discussions on a password-protected site which has all of the RSS turned off with the “Disable RSS” plugin.
Also, would it be possible to have it display the name they have chosen under “Display Name Publicly As” in their profile instead of showing their user name?
Does it use the native Wordpress comment moderation settings? I did not see any option for a moderated board.
Thank you
I also just noticed that it displays the “Biographical Info” from the user’s profile under their posts, which is very weird. Thanks.
Disabling the RSS feed seems to be able to be done by renaming the plugin’s feed.php file. This does not seem to have had any negative effects.
Removing the RSS link and the users’ Biographical Info after posts were simple edits.
I’m not worried in this particular case about the moderation features, but they would be nice.
I would however still like to have their Display Name shown instead of their User Name. Haven’t tried to change that myself. It’s late…
Thank you
The plugin should already be showing the users display name.
OK. So where does the forum show up? Where do people go to access it? All I see is the admin panel. It is not in navigation, or on any page.
Please follow the install instructions above.
It’s step 3 in the instructions that make it show up. You managed to find this page, I’m sure you are able to follow a few steps
Follow what instructions? Have you even tried your own plugin?
Did the instauctions. Since none of them say where the forum will actually be, now where do I look?
I really dont get what you are trying to say. The forum will be wherever you want it to be after you make a page and insert the tag. And the instruction are on this page. Can you not see the 12 step install instruction above on this page?
You sir are unable to actually understand the instructions
And THAT is where your forum will show up.
Hi there. Is there a way of setting maximum image size?
how can i change forums unicode to utf-8 ??
This script is perfect
Does anyone know of any custom skins for this plugin? I’m looking for something really clean.
A few people have made some and placed links in the forums.
Thanks. Was playing with it last night. Very nice plug in.
Hi there,
I followed the instruction above in this post how to install the Wordpress Formum Server (except the point #4) and everything went well. But on the page where I placed the forum code, I can not figure our how to leave a post under a specific forum. What am I missing out, pls help.
Thanks,Kate
Support Questions are not answered in comments. Please use the support forums. http://vasthtml.com/support/
Was looking for something simple to start me off on a forum. I am still struggling to make it work but wanted to say thanks to people like yourself who has taken the time to develop such plugin.
Thank you.. for the thank you
. If you have any question feel free to use the support forums here on the site.
I might be blind, but I have been searching this site for about 30 minutes now, and can’t seem to find the “instructions” that everyone keeps saying are listed “above”. Can someone perhaps point me in the right direction?
lmao, sorry but they aren’t there no more so your not blind
. all install instruction and plugin info have been moved to the readme pages http://vasthtml.com/item-readme/
thanks, I didn’t want to be “that guy”, but man.. i was really lost
HAHA its you got away with it this time
haha
by the way, great site, and great plugin, that bastard that created the original plugin really did slack off on keeping up with it. i dont see how anyone could say that you “stole” his, in my opinion, it is a whole new plugin.. it sure does more than the old one, looks better, and actually works!
Thanks
.
Great news
I can find out what to insert into a post to make the forum appear. Some people seem to mention it in the forum but I think the forum code strips it out, probably thinking someone is trying to inject code. I’ve looked at the readme and can’t see it there and http://vasthtml.com/item-readme/ just takes me to apge that says its not complete. Please can someone help, I’m falling at the first hurdle.
thanks
Chris
The page isnt complete but that dont mean that there isnt content, just means its not done. Did you try to click on the forum-server icon?
I can’t believe these jerk offs wont tell you how to make the forum appear. All you do is create a new page, name it forum or something then click html and past this code save the page and that’s all. The forum will appear next to your other links.
See how your code dont show… thats why we dont bother to explain it here, and since he was already talking about that page, he already knows the link… and you call us jerk-offs?
Guess it never crossed your mind we have a reason for not telling people how to post the forum here. THE CODE DONT SHOW.
And where that REDME??? http://vasthtml.com/item-readme/
How to show up this forum after activation??????? There incomlete instruction!
Where is forum fucking CODE??? I can’t see here any instalation instructions!
Going to the readme page and clicking on the forum-server icon may be useful.
Help me plz! I can’t to stretch forum to full width. In my WP theme content releaseas with
In .css file I found:
#contentwrapper2 {
float:left;
width: 900px;
margin: 0 0 15px 0;
padding: 0;
}
But any changes in this block have no result. “width: 900px;” value increases forum size only to right side.
After acting the way you did above your now asking for customizing help? and once again you cant find the right place to get info? Please use the support forums for posting support/custom questions.
That’s right! Because this “forum” is veeery smart WP-Forum modification…
Just bullshit no more.
Huh? That dont even make sence.
Why on earth don’t you add to your readme.txt the installation steps:
3. Create a page
4. Click on the HTML button in Wordpress and then insert: ``
This would save a lot of trouble and confusion, and cost you exactly nothing.
(These steps were part of the wp-forum readme.txt, which you must be familiar with.)
Well, that got stripped. But you know what I mean:
HTML comment surrounding VASTHTML
Sorry i didnt know someone having to come to the site was costing me anything. If its so hard to follow instructions to come to this site and read about the plugin (which is in readme) then i dont see how any info in the readme will help. I want users to come here and get info because they see all the information about the plugin and know where the forums are and help is if they have trouble. If they never have to come to the site then when they have an issue they will just sent me an email, which isnt fair to my paying customers.
Starting up, one sees the categories, and within them the forums in each category. (The unreadable blue text on blue or black background is fixable — but why?)
When a forum is chosen, there is a breadcrumb which (a bit confusingly) says
“Forum” >> category name >> forum name
and the topics are listed. So far, so more or less good.
When a topic is then chosen, the breadcrumb includes it. OK.
When reply is hit, a text field appears, but the topic list disappears, and the breadcrumb reduces to “edit” — no reminder of what topic, what forum, or what category we are working in.
And there’s no reply threading (single level only), so only by quoting can we have any recollection of what we are responding to.
For my applications, this is not usable. Clearly, the list should remain on screen, and a text field appear either at the bottom or as popup. Of course, threads would be a major improvement, as well.
“The unreadable blue text on blue or black background is fixable — but why”
The colors and look of the forum is 90% based on your themes CSS. Your WP is what controls most of the way your forum looks.
Great place
Any idea when 1.4 will be released? we want to install a forum on our site, but we’d rather wait for the new version if it’s released soon (we’re not experts – so the least updating/upgrading the better for us)
No clue has of yet we are still working with the new forum editor. Updating is easy and just takes a click of a button.
Oh, we figured updating wouldn’t be that easy… we’ll give it a try. Thanks
Hey community!
Is it possible to get permalinks?
greetings!
Hey!
How can we get some permalinks?
Nice links for the forum is N/A
Hello,
The forum installs fine but when I want to activate the plugin I get this error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare latest_activity() (previously declared in /home/ujobserv/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-forum/wpf-main.php:40) in /home/ujobserv/public_html/wp-content/plugins/forum-server/wpf-main.php on line 26
Please help!
Dear administrator,
I am using your forum server, I am a Turkish person and Turkish characters cant be seen in forum. how can I correct this problem
Eric,
I may have missed this and if I did I apologize, but do you know if this plugin will work in IE6? I too despise that browser but I’m developing a WordPress intranet for a client and they require their people to use IE6 exclusively (they have some browser-run apps that only work in this dinosaur).
Thanks again for your work.
I haven’t heard any complaints thus far about IE6 support.
Cool; thanks. I’ll let you know how well it does or doesn’t work. Thanks again.
Hi, I have been trying to read the Read Me file, But for setup It tells me to come here, but I do not see anything helpful here… Sorry, and thanks
All info is in the readme page.
I finally found the read me page
sorry bout that. AND THANKS!! THIS PLUG-IN RULES !!!
haha shouldn’t be hard to find with the big button at the top of every page that says “readme”
Whats the path to the foum?!! Im so lost..ive activated it and everything
Nevermind…figured it you :]
But how do you ONLY show the forum, not the WORDPRESS sidebar, ect.
I want it liike
http://www.lilwaynehq.com/
Did you read the readme file on the site?. Also all support needs to be ask in the forums, not in comments.
I already have look, been searching the answear for hours.
And I already posted on the forum :]
Dude, I am going nuts here. You said here that there’s some kind of code you put on a page to show these forums.
There’s NOTHING in the readme file but a link back here which shows nothing but links to themes.
What is the code and why isn’t it in the readme?
If you would perhaps try to click on the links with the theme pics you would see that it goes to the read me page and not the themes…
Clicking on the theme pics shows installation instructions for the theme.
I don’t want that. I don’t know how to access the forums at all!
I don’t see anything on the readme files that come with the script, nor the readme files and installation file here.
What gives? What is this code you spoke of in these comments?
There’s nothing on the support forums either? Is this serious?
Honestly its not that hard. Go to the top of this page… click the readme button, scroll down to where you see plugins and click on the forum server icon… then guess what.. youll find your answer.
Ok, thanks. Got it. Much appreciated.
Just a suggestion here, but maybe… just maybe it’s not as easy and self explanatory as you seem to think it is.
I see I am not the only person that couldn’t figure this out without help. Running a website involves quite a bit of user-friendliness. Just because it’s easy for you (you run the place) and others doesn’t mean it’s easy.
This plugin has been downloaded almost 10k times and if 10 people cant figure it out i dont see that has being a issue. No matter what i would change it to there will always be some who don’t get it. I used to have the code on this very page and yet some still couldn’t find it. If you ever find a way to please 100% of people let me know.
Where can we found the short codes to make this plugin display on page?
Go to the read me page please.
It seems that you’re the one who can understand your plugin.
This has been downloaded over 10k times, just because a few cant get it to work in no way means it doesn’t or that it is hard to understand.