Have you been looking for a Forum Plugin for WordPress that
just works? Then look no further! Mingle Forum has been modified to be lightweight, solid, secure, quick to setup, easy to use, and best of all it now integrates seamlessly with or without the Mingle social networking plugin (by Blair Williams). The mission of Mingle Forum is, to
KEEP IT SIMPLE There are a handful of Forum Plugins for WordPress available but they are either super buggy, difficult to install, or so bloated with features and settings that its a nightmare setting them up. Dont do that to yourself!!! You can be up and running with Mingle Forum fully installed and configured in as little as 5 minutes -- pretty cool eh?
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You can try Mingle Forum out on my site:
cartpauj.com
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Features
- NEW! Limit SPAM by setting a time interval users must wait between posts
- Create a corresponding Forum post when you create a WordPress post
- User Signatures (instead of Bio)
- Lock entire forums
- Image uploads on New Posts and Replies
- SEO Friendly forum URLs
- Forum Sitemap (../wp-content/plugins/mingle-forum/sitemap.php)
- Integrated HTML areas for adsense or affiliate links
- Media embedding into forum posts (like Youtube, Flickr, Photobucket...)
- Private Messages - Mingle Forum now integrates seamlessly with Mingle or my Cartpauj PM Plugin (Requires Cartpauj PM vs 1.0.09 or greater)
- RSS Feeds
- Quick Reply
- Wordpress 3.x ready!
- Categories with sub-forums
- User Groups
- User Levels (EX: Newbie, Beginner, Advanced, Pro)
- Moderators
- Skins
- Captcha
- BB Code
- Smilies
- Custom Forum Search
- Guest posts (See Mingle Forum Guest Info add-on by wpweaver)
- Hot/Very Hot topics
- Sticky (Pinned) Topics
- Move, Edit, Remove and Close topics
- Email notifications on Replies to Topics
- Email notifications on new Topics in Forums
- Recent posts widget (or PHP shortcode for your theme)
- Integrates nicely with most themes (Its tough to make it work for all themes so some skin modifications may be required for your site)
- Allow/Dis-allow other users to view your profile from the Forum
- Supports internationalization/localization
- Integrates with the Mingle plugin (by Blair Williams) NOTE: The Mingle plugin is NOT required for the forum to work
Notes
- Mingle forum 1.0.32 uses a new email subscription system. All old subscriptions will be lost after upgrading. This will allow much better email support for the future.
- If you use Wordpress 2.9.2 or older you will need to download Mingle Forum vs. 1.0.27 as of 1.0.28+ only Wordpress 3.0+ is supported
- As of Mingle Forum Vs 1.0.03 the skins directory has been changed to /wp-content/mingle-forum-skins/ Tell Me More...
- If youre switching from WP Forum or Forum Server you will lose your skin and settings but you will NOT lose your categories, forums, groups, or topics which makes it very easy to make the transition :)
Translations
- NOTE: If you want to help with translations click HERE
- Arabic
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- Georgian
- German
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Latvian
- Persian
- Polish
- Romanian
- Russian
- Simplified Chinese
- Slovak
- Slovanian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Thai
- Traditional Chinese
- Turkish