Published: 06/20/2007 6:38 am by awentzel in Site Bulletin
After listening to your ideas, suggestions, and feedback we decided to upgrade our forums. We are very happy to announce our new forums. They have a new and improved user interface as well as many new features as requested and bug fixes as requested. What are some of these main features you ask?
* Allow registered members and/or unregistered guests
* Uses WordPress user registrations, roles and levels
* Both public and/or role based private forums
* Topics/Posts can be ‘pinned’
* Forums/Topics can be ‘locked’
* Member subscription to email updates on new posts
* Admin notification of new posts
* Dashboard notification of new posts
* Two modes of post display to help width of forum
* Optional moderation of guest/member posts
* Optional spam post tools
* Forum search capability
* Paged topics
* Cookies track guests
* Uses latest WordPress security tools
* Rich Text editor (TinyMCE) option
* ‘QuickTags’ editor option
* Select sort options for topics and posts
* Inline editing of posts (admin and poster)
* Inline editing of topic titles (admin)
* Moderators can be defined
* Fully customisable ’skins’ and ‘icons’
* Simple and easy setting up for forums
* Optional use of Avatars (and option to set size)
* Avatar uploading capability
* Optional recent post list on front page
* Full date/time and time-zone settings
* Member post count
* Quote and reply option
* Move topic tool
* Member Profile updating
* Members can change own password
* Template tag for recent posts
* Supports Page Password
* Show Posts since last logged in
* Uses RTE Spellchecker
* Complete uninstall/removal option
* Valid XHTML
We hope you enjoy and as always please leave feedback and participate in our growing community.
Thanks,
FFX Support Team