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Groups Forums
Download
Purchase a license and download the plugin.
Groups Forums provides a powerful and yet light-weight forum system for WordPress sites.
Based on 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.
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 comment notifications with Groups Notifications
- Pending/published topic notifications for site admin, moderators and authors.
- 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.
I’m currently working on a web project for a service dog program web site (www.pawsteams.org)in Sunny San Diego. Currently, it’s in a production directory, which the directory is htaccess protected, before I purchase your plugin, I have several questions regarding about your Groups Forum Extension from the Groups Plugin(http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/groups/). I would like to correspond with you via email. Also, I will read more on the documentation of this extension. Is this the best way to contact you at this email address? (edited)
Thank you very much,
David G
Hi David,
You’re very welcome to post any questions related to the plugin here, it’s the preferred way as it helps others find answers to similar questions
Cheers
I posted the question on your profile on http://www.codecanyon.net. You probably have to find it there. Once you find my inquiry, I will be more than happy to post it here, so others can see what I inquired about for the groups forums extension, so we can discuss about it here instead on your profile on codecanyon.net
Best Regards,
David Guzman
San Diego, CA
It seems you didn’t leave a comment there, probably used the message function and that can take a while to respond. You don’t imagine the amount of emails I receive … I prefer to have open discussions as it is much more productive than answering closed emails
Hi,
I was thinking of purchasing your groups forums extension for a site I’m working on the production level. See, the client wants an area where the Therapy Volunteers can communicate with each other in a private forum and they have the ablity register. Furthermore, where I can assign moderators to manage the forum. Would your extension be able to do that, and where I set the certain capabilties for the moderators to have? Currently, I have bbpress installed locally in my machine and I have been playing with it, but I’m at a cross roads if I should get your extension or stick with bbpress. What’s your thoughts on it???
Best Regard,
David G.
San Diego, CA
Thanks David, I was actually going to prepare a post on how bbPress and Groups Forums compare in terms of performance, with your question in mind, I might give it a try later on because that would really be interesting and can help to make a decision on whether to use one or the other.
Groups Forums can create a Topic Moderators group for you. You can assign users to that group and these would have all the necessary permissions to moderate the forums. You can also extend their capabilities if you need them to access additional admin functions. I can give you access to a test site if you’d like to try that out.
Sure, I would like to give your test site a try.
Cool, just created an account for you on the site. The account is in the Topic Moderators group. Give it a try, any questions just let me know.
Thank you. I’ll give it a try.
Hello,
I am hoping you can help me, I am using groups, groups forums, and groups woocommerce together. I need to filter the results on the Forums page to only display forums which the user has been subscribed to, and not all forums.
Could you please help or give some advice with this?
Hi juluis,
right now you can do it, but we are working hard to launch this in the next update.
cheers
I’m wanting to use BuddyPress/bbPress for a site I’m working on for two reasons: private messaging and (more importantly) bbPress has a plugin where you can turn the comments to a particular post into a forum thread. Would this extension to Groups do either (or hopefully both) of these things? More the latter than the former – we REALLY want people to be able to interact with the forum directly from whatever post they are on (the post would be associated with a forum).
Hi Shelly, this won’t be possible, at least not OOTB (you could manually change the post type to
topicto convert a normal post into a topic, but there is no user interface for that to make it easier).Thanks! Actually, THAT would be a *perfect* solution, because we’re already using these “videos” as custom post types. All I’d have to do is change the post type slug
I’ll give that a shot – that might actually work really well 
Thanks!
Hello,
I am trying to show all topics in the forum not just the users, but this does not work. Am I doing something wrong?
[groups_forums_user_topics all="true"]
Hi Julius,
this shortcode is correct.
Beware of pending messages that only owners can see. Maybe that’s why you can not see them.
cheers
Hi,
I am using the Thematic Theme and with the default template (right sidebar), on the Topics page the title, description and tags box are three sided boxes (no right side). When I change the template to full width the forum becomes the full width of the page and are three sided boxes. In both cases i can see the small triangle on lower right of the description box and if i move it slightly to the left the right side of the box appears but no change to the title and tags box. When I allow comments on the page the comments box is fine.
Thank You
Jerry
Hi,
is an incompatibility issue theme, you can fix it, adding this to theme’s css:
.site-content {
float: left;
width: 65.104166667%;
}
cheers
Guys, this plugin is really giving me a hard time. I am trying to just have forums, under each forum display just that specific forums topics, not all the topics from all the other forums as well.. Is something broken here? Is it not default behaviour for a forum to hold all topics and not just the one that the current user started?
Hi Julius, yes the default would be to only have posts in that forum appear in it. If posts from all forums appear, something isn’t right. Can you share a link and code you are using currently please?
We’re interested in creating an area on our existing site (WordPress platform) for assigned users to collaborate and share documents, message each other, etc and I’m wondering if the Groups Forums might be what we’re looking for.
We need the ability for users to upload/attach documents to forum topics. Also needed is the capability for the moderator (me) to register new users and ensure they only have access to their assigned group – which I’m thinking will actually be Forums I create specifically for certain members? I’m sorry if this is all over the place – I’m not a developer by any means and need something very basic and end-user-friendly.
We also need it kept out of search engines as it’s a place for corporate departments to collaborate internally.
Thanks!
Stephanie
Hi Stephanie,
This requirement isn’t met by the plugin in a direct way: the posts in forums are not protected from public exposure (search engines included) unless you protect them using Groups’ access restriction mechanism, i.e. before a topic is published, a moderator would have to manually protect the topic so it only appears to those who should be able to read it.
I don’t think it would be an ideal match for what you’re looking for in general, it can be made to meet your requirements, but if you’re looking for a solution that provides all of it OOTB, it’s not what you need. It really would have to be customized. I would recommend to search for another solution that comes closer to what you need, if you eventually don’t find a good solution, you could of course consider a customization.
Cheers
Thanks for getting back to me and for the heads up. Search continues. Love the ease of this plug in though. Too bad it’s not what we’re looking for in this case.
Thanks!
Stephanie