The most versatile and feature-rich forum plugin for WordPress. Create unlimited forums with awesome features directly in your WordPress site.

MattGeri

Marketing Fire

Discussion Board – WordPress Forum Plugin

Discussion Board is a simple, effective way to add a forum or discussion board to your site, helping you build and engage an active community.

elindydotcom

simplepress

YellowSwordfish

Mr Papa

<p>Simple:Press is an all-in-one, feature-rich forum plugin designed to seamlessly integrate with your WordPress site.<br />
With a focus on performance and user experience, it offers an extensive range of free and premium features to meet all your forum needs.</p>
<p>The plugin has undergone rigorous testing and offers complete support for PHP 7.4 up to PHP 8.4.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enterprise-grade performance, scalable for thousands of users</li>
<li>Seamless integration with WordPress user and security models, featuring a robust user group and permission system</li>
<li>SEO optimized for enhanced search engine visibility</li>
<li>Highly customizable and extendable for a tailored experience</li>
<li>Data import compatibility with other forum platforms, such as bbPress and Asgaros</li>
<li>Multi-level forum structures with subforum support</li>
<li>Options for both private and public forums</li>
<li>Fully theme and template driven for easy customization</li>
<li>Selection of adaptable themes with customizable colors and font sizes to match your brand identity</li>
<li>Extensive administration options and settings for streamlined management</li>
</ul>
<h4>Simple:Press Pro</h4>
<p>Take your forum to the next level by adding Simple:Press Pro, a bundle of add-ons that bring over 100 additional features to your forum.</p>
<p>Some of the included add-ons are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Analytics: Engaging charts displaying forum data</li>
<li>Ads: An advanced advertising engine integrated within the forum</li>
<li>Private messaging system: Enables users to exchange private messages</li>
<li>Push Notifications: Supports SMS, Pushover, PushBullet, and Slack</li>
<li>Reputation System</li>
<li>Polls</li>
<li>Admin Bar: Front-end management tool for admins and moderators, eliminating the need for wp-admin access</li>
<li>Image, media, and file uploader: Allows designated users to upload files and media to topics and posts</li>
<li>Multiple post editors, including TinyMCE</li>
<li>Who’s Online</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://simple-press.com/add-ons/" rel="nofollow ugc">View all add-ons</a> and <a href="https://simple-press.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">pricing</a>.</p>
<h4>Compatibility</h4>
<p>Simple:Press supports standard and multi-site versions of WordPress and was built to be<br />
compatible with most themes, both free and commercial.</p>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<p>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!<br />
<a href="https://glotpress.simple-press.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">View our translation site</a></p>
<h3>Latest Updates</h3>
<h4>6.11.14 – January 2026</h4>
<ul>
<li>Feature: Added ability for developers to customize which HTML tags are allowed in forum topic displays through filter hooks</li>
<li>Improvement: Better error messages for navigation popup</li>
<li>Improvement: Added border styling to page jump input field for better visibility</li>
<li>Improvement: Cleaned up date formatting code</li>
<li>Bug: Fixed database cleanup function that was crashing</li>
<li>Bug: Fixed new user email system to properly handle admin notification settings and email formatting</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.11.13 – January 2026</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed issue with addons not executing JS correctly</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.11.12 – January 2026</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed issue with spam and math question for guest posts</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.11.11 – December 2025</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added allowed attributes to fix compatibility issues with Poll addon</li>
<li>Fixed query errors caused by improper table name quoting. Thanks! https://github.com/terresquall</li>
<li>Fixed null reference exceptions that were triggering warnings https://github.com/terresquall</li>
<li>Fixed nonce validation for delete operations</li>
<li>Fixed issues preventing topic deletion</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.11.10 – September 2025</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unread message counters now update correctly</li>
<li>“Last visit” tracking now works as expected</li>
<li>Relaxed overly strict HTML sanitization in admin output</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.11.9 – September 2025</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed an issue that prevented YouTube videos from embedding correctly when using TinyMCE</li>
<li>Enhanced Forum Description to support additional HTML elements for richer content</li>
<li>Cleaned up codebase by removing deprecated oEmbed imports</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.11.8 – August 2025</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed translation handling to ensure translations load correctly</li>
<li>Improved search to resolve errors with the Search by User add-on</li>
<li>Fixed pagination issues in search results</li>
<li>Continued updates to use global allowed HTML tags for safer output</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.11.7 – August 2025</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed missing Edit button in forum posts</li>
<li>Security fix addressing a vulnerability reported via Patchstack</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.11.6 – August 2025</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed issue with translations not loaded</li>
<li>Fixed missing nonce on admin tools</li>
<li>Fixed issue with some YouTube urls that were not embeded correctly </li>
</ul>
<h4>6.11.5 – July 2025</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed broken release notes not showing correctly for add-ons</li>
<li>Fixed issue with House Keeping forms not showing correctly</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.11.4 – July 2025</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed broken member listing display</li>
<li>Fixed issue with theme icon sets not loding correctly</li>
<li>Resolved RSS CDATA double-escaping issue</li>
<li>Enhanced pagination handling for smoother navigation</li>
<li>Fixed user group listing to ensure consistent output</li>
<li>Continued update to use global allowed HTML tags</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.11.3 – July 2025</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed license verification and activation issues affecting some Pro users</li>
<li>Corrected HTML escaping in licensing admin and plugin update outputs</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.11.2 – July 2025</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed post deletion issues on mobile devices</li>
<li>Improved license verification handling</li>
<li>Fixed saving issues in some plugins</li>
<li>Minor HTML escaping corrections throughout the codebase</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.11.1 – July 2025</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed mobile output rendering issues</li>
<li>Multiple output fixes applied for improved desktop view rendering.</li>
<li>Improved content filtering by centralizing allowed HTML tags into a global constant </li>
<li>Added support for custom attributes within allowed tags</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.11.0 – June 2025</h4>
<ul>
<li>Code compliance update: Refactored codebase to pass WordPress Plugin Check with no errors or warnings</li>
<li>Replaced deprecated functions and improved use of WordPress core APIs</li>
<li>Enforced consistent escaping, sanitization, and validation throughout admin and front-end</li>
<li>Added missing translation functions for better i18n support</li>
<li>Improved file and directory handling using WP-native methods</li>
<li>General code cleanup and adherence to WordPress coding standards</li>
<li>Security update: Implemented fixes for potential XSS attacks and improved nonce usage on front-end forms</li>
<li>RPX support dropped</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.10.13 – March 2025</h4>
<ul>
<li>Improved security posture: Implemented fixes for potential XSS attacks and ensured proper nonce usage on front-end forms.</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.10.12 – January 2025</h4>
<ul>
<li>Improved security by sanitizing inputs in plugin search functionality to prevent potential vulnerabilities.</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.10.11 – January 2025</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enhanced methods for search forms and links to sanitize inputs, preventing malicious JavaScript and HTML injection.</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.10.10 – October 2024</h4>
<ul>
<li>Removed old code that affected some WP hosts memory usage</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.10.9 – June 2024</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added new WYSIWYG editor fields to enable better HTML editing features</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.10.8 – February 2024</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added setting to allow admins to hide firstname, lastname and email from user profile</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.10.7 – December 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed issue with checkbox for custom messages that did not save correctly</li>
<li>Fixed issue with user pagination when no group is selected</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.10.6 – November 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Improved the pagination handler to handle large amounts of pages better</li>
<li>Improved the user group handling allowing admins to search for specific users</li>
<li>Increased the number of shown users per page in the user group admin</li>
<li>Added indicator showing current page in pagination links</li>
<li>Added hover in the user group admin to show user ID to easier find the correct user</li>
<li>Improved the spinner/loading image positioning</li>
<li>Fixed warning when installing forum without sample data</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.10.5 – November 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed compatibility issue with WordPress 6.4</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.10.4 – October 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed issue with installations on multisites</li>
<li>Only stow Forum link in WP admin bar for Admins</li>
<li>Improve usability when hovering icons and showing cursor pointer instead</li>
<li>Minor CSS-improvements to admin</li>
<li>Fixed warnings</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.10.3 – July 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed issue with member search failing when no results were returned</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.10.2 – July 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed issue with checkbox data that was not saved</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.10.1 – July 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed a bug that made “Manage Groups And Forums” return an error when editing a forum</li>
<li>Solve issue with automatic updates for free themes</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.10.0 – July 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Full PHP8.2 support, this ensures that all features and functionalities provided by the plugin work smoothly and efficiently in PHP 8.2 environments</li>
<li>New and improved admin interface with less clutter</li>
<li>Manage Groups and Forums has been refactored to better visualise forum structure and make administration more intuitive</li>
<li>Addons that have their own menu get grouped at the bottom to make it easier to find specific settings for installed addons</li>
<li>Error messages, caution notices and information notices are visually separated to better aid users to know what and what not to change</li>
<li>Permission view has been made more compact to improve readability and permission overview</li>
<li>Storage location administration has been restructured to simplify folder management and give the user a better overview</li>
<li>A multitude of PHP-warnings have been silenced</li>
<li>Plugin administration has been improved and made more compact to give a better overview of installed and activated plugins and their options</li>
<li>Activating and handling themes has been improved and simplified</li>
<li>Licensing UI redesign to better aid users in understanding the licensing process</li>
<li>Admin stylesheet has been updated and obsolete CSS-syntax’s has been removed</li>
<li>Modern theme have had an update to help partially hidden search inputs on mobile view</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.9.1 – June 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Reverted: Only allow Simple:Press to run queries on Simple:Press pages</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.9.0 – June 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Resolve PHP8.2 issues</li>
<li>Fix avatar options not saved</li>
<li>Fixed installation warnings when activating and installing Simple:Press for a more seamless installation</li>
<li>Only allow Simple:Press to run queries on Simple:Press pages</li>
<li>Minor admin cleanup, remove buttons, missing font-fix</li>
<li>Added progress indicator when uploading theme or add-ons to help users better understand what is happening</li>
<li>Indicator added when activating/deactivating add-ons, aiming to assist administrators</li>
<li>Fix backend and frontend issue with disabled forums to avoid confusion</li>
<li>Fixed SQL-error on install</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.8.10 – March 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added new optional constant to allow sp-resources to live in uploads folder</li>
<li>Fixed CSS font issue in admin to improve readability and user experience</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.8.9 – March 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixes issue in <code>spa-admin-notice.php</code> that causes upgrades to fail</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.8.8 – February 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added correct version number</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.8.7 – February 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed alignment issue in modern theme</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.8.6 – February 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added missing version number for WP.org</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.8.5 – February 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fix issue with upgrading</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.8.4 – February 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed issues with TinyMCE editor not working properly</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.8.3 – January 2023</h4>
<ul>
<li>Special rank badges were not displaying in admin or front-end.</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.8.2 – December 2022</h4>
<ul>
<li>A couple of PHP 8.1 compatibility fixes.</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.8.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Various security related fixes.</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.8.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>Compatibility with PHP 8.x.  If using premium add-ons, new versions will be required.</li>
<li>Show error code when there’s an error with the license process.</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.7.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add option to sort by the membership column in the FORUM->USERS->MEMBER INFORMATION list.</li>
<li>Tools popup on desktop makes better use of horizontal space.</li>
<li>G00121: Fix an issue with deleting subsites rendering all user posts as guests in any other site that has the forum in use.</li>
<li>G00116: When sorting the user list under FORUM->USERS->MEMBER INFORMATION, the list would be unstyled.</li>
<li>G00117: Custom icons not rendering in drop-down properly.</li>
<li>G00123: Large custom icon images need to be resized when viewing the forum list in admin.</li>
<li>G00098: Fix admin screen issue where the Bulk Actions Arrow in MEMBER INFORMATION is too close to text.</li>
<li>G00022: Deleting a topic from the FORUM TOOLS popup did not refresh the screen.</li>
<li>G00100: Moving users not belonging to any user group did not refresh the section after the users were moved.</li>
<li>G00000: Multiple issues with caching icon files when a filename is reused.  Added cache-busting querystrings in the admin area to force cdns and page caches to re-request the file.</li>
<li>G00000: Multiple issues with caching featured images files when a filename is reused.  Added cache-busting querystrings in the admin area to force cdns and page caches to re-request the file.</li>
<li>G00000: Multiple tweaks related to extra line breaks showing up in SP themes when the WP 59 FSE theme was in use.</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.6.6</h4>
<ul>
<li>G00000: Fix a drag-n-drop issue introduced by WP 5.9.</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.6.5</h4>
<ul>
<li>G00000: Add support for FSE themes introduced in WP 5.9.</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.6.4</h4>
<ul>
<li>G00000: Check to make sure a YOAST class is callable before attempting to use it. Compatibility fix for Yoast 17.8.0</li>
<li>G00000: Add a filter in sp-api-class-spcauths.php to support future functionality.</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.6.3</h4>
<ul>
<li>G00000: Add a new overlay to the default 2020 theme to match the WP 2021 theme.  The new overlay is the default on all new installs.</li>
<li>G00110: Could not reorder profile tabs and menus in admin screen.</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.6.2</h4>
<ul>
<li>G00000: Page number overlap on certain admin screens when the page numbers get to 3 digits.</li>
<li>G00000: When deleting users and choosing the option to delete the user, they now get deleted instead of being set to “guest”.</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.6.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>G00000: (Security) Verify a nonce & user capability before allowing certain file-related operations.</li>
</ul>
<h4>6.6.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>G00000: Introduction of a “white label” mode that removes most references to Simple:Press.</li>
<li>G00000: Updated the Modern2020 theme to the latest version.</li>
<li>G00000: Much better support for WordPress Multisite with numerous multi-site related fixes and improvements.</li>
<li>G00000: Fix a compatibility issue with PHP 7.4.0</li>
<li>G00000: Fix a string that needed to be in double-quotes instead of single quotes in order to de-reference an embedded variable.</li>
<li>G00000: Fix an issue in the sp_ColumnEnd function where the class and tag names were not being assigned properly in the generated html for the column.</li>
</ul>


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