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wpForo Forum

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Number one WordPress forum plugin with AI features. Full-fledged forum solution with modern forum design. Community builder WordPress forum plugin.

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What you get inside

8 screens
  • Simplified Forum Layout - Forums

  • Boxed Forum Layout - Forums

  • Simplified Forum Layout - Posts

  • Threaded Forum Layout - Forums and Threads

  • Threaded Forum Layout - Threads

  • Question & Answer Forum Layout - Forums

  • Question & Answer Forum Layout / Forums / Described

  • Question & Answer Forum Layout / Question Thread / Described

About this plugin

wpForo is the first AI powered forum plugin for WordPress. Full-fledged yet easy and light forum solution for your WordPress website. Comes with modern and responsive forum layouts and styles. This WordPress forum plugin brings everything you need to run an efficient and professional community. Powerful and beautiful forum with unique features. The best alternative to bbPress forum plugin.

5 Minute Forum Installation!

1. Activate plugin and find forums on /community/ page, (/community-2/ if /community/ is used),
2. Manage Forum Page, Title, etc in Dashboard > wpForo > Board > Edit Board admin page,
3. Manage Forums in Dashboard > wpForo > Forums admin page,
4. Manage Forum Menu in Dashboard > Appearance > Menu admin page,
5. Manage Forum Widgets in Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets admin page,
6. Manage Forum Colors in Dashboard > wpForo > Settings > Colors & Styles admin page, you can choose forum color styles.

Support Forum and Demo: https://wpforo.com/community/
Forum Documentation: https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v3/
GDPR Compliance: https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v3/gdpr/

Multi-layout WordPress Forum Plugin

  1. Extended Forum Layout
  2. Simplified Forum Layout
  3. Question and Answer Forum Layout
  4. Threaded Forum Layout
  5. Boxed Forum Layout

Migrate to wpForo

Free Migration Tool Go2wpForo: https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v3/migrate-to-wpforo/

- Migrate bbPress forum to wpForo
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- Migrate Joomla Kunena forum to wpForo
- Migrate MyBB forum to wpForo

Forum Integration

wpForo forum plugin is well integrated with many Profile Builder and Paid Membership plugins, such as BuddyPress, Ultimate Members, WooCommerce Membership, Paid Memberships Pro, MemberPress, Groups and SureMembers plugins.

Forum Translation

wpForo is a WordPress forum plugin with all possibilities of plugin translation. We’d really appreciate if you could help translating wpForo forum plugin to your language here.

FORUM FEATURES

  • 360° AI-Powered Features
    • AI Semantic Search
    • AI Topic Summarization
    • AI Topic Suggestions
    • AI Multi-Language Translation
    • AI Chat Assistant
    • AI Bot Reply & Suggest Reply
    • AI Content Moderation
    • AI Spam Detection
    • AI Toxic Content Detection
    • AI Tasks — Automated Topic Generation
    • AI Tasks — Automated Reply Generation
    • AI Tasks — Automated Topic Tag Moderation
    • AI Analytics & Insights
    • AI Knowledge Generation (RAG)
    • AI Content Indexing – Text, Images, Documents
  • Multi-board: Allows to have multiple separate forum pages
  • Multi-language: Allows to forums with different languages
  • Multi-layout: Four modern forum layouts (Q&A, Threaded…)
  • Designed for small and extremely large forums/communities.
  • Migrate from other forums using Go2wpForo tool.
  • Four different forum layouts and designs.
  • Six set of forum color styles including dark style.
  • Super responsive forum on all kind of devices.
  • Live user notification system
  • Built-in forum SEO functions.
  • Built-in forum Sitemap and Search Engine ping.
  • Built-in forum Cache System.
  • Built-in forum Antispam and Akismet integration.
  • Advanced forum user profile system.
  • Forum Member Rating and Badges.
  • Built-in forum/topic subscription.
  • Drag and Drop forum management system.
  • Topic and Post front-end moderation.
  • Forum topics and posts Read / Unread logging.
  • Topic Tags and Tags Widget.
  • Forum styles with different colors.
  • Built-in, powerful forum Usergroup system.
  • Forum Access sets per Usergroup per Forum.
  • Forum Phrase System for quick translation.
  • WordPress .MO/.PO translation files.
  • Tools and options for GDPR Compliance
  • Social Network Share Buttons
  • BuddyPress Integration
  • Ultimate Member Integration

Need more forum features?

Find wpForo forum plugin addons on gVectors Team website…

Use of 3rd Party Services

wpForo connects to external services operated by gVectors Team for certain features. These connections are optional and only active when the corresponding features are enabled by the forum administrator.

gVectors AI API (api.gvectors.com, api.gvectors.net)

When AI features are enabled by the forum administrator, wpForo sends forum content (topics, posts, and metadata) to the gVectors AI API for processing. This includes:

  • Content Indexing: Forum content is sent to embedding generation for vector database
  • Semantic Search: Query is sent for embedding for vector search
  • AI Translation: Forum text is sent for translation into other languages
  • AI Summarization: Topic content is sent for automatic summary generation
  • Content Moderation: New posts are sent for AI-powered content analysis
  • AI Chat: Conversation context is sent for AI response generation
  • Topic Suggestions: Forum data is sent for generating related topic recommendations

No data is sent to the AI API unless the forum administrator explicitly enables AI features, accepts the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and configures an API key. A fallback domain (api.gvectors.net) may be used automatically if the primary domain is unreachable.

Terms of Service
Privacy Policy

gVectors Addons Store (gvectors.com)

When using wpForo addons purchased from the gVectors store, the plugin communicates with gvectors.com to verify addon licenses and deliver automatic updates through the WordPress Dashboard. This includes sending your site URL and license key to validate your purchase and check for available addon updates.

Terms of Service
Privacy Policy

Questions

Forum Page – How to change forum page?

Forum Page – wpForo creates a forum page with /community/ slug. Forum URL can be changed in Dashboard > wpForo > Boards > Edit Board and change the slug. Make sure you use WordPress permalinks. wpForo forums don’t work with default ?p=1 URL structure. Forum page only contains [wpforo] forum shortcode.

Forum Menu – How to manage forum menu?

Forum Menu – wpForo forum menu is a regular WordPress menu. In Dashboard > Appearance > Menu admin page wpForo forum creates new navigation menu (forum top menu bar) called “wpForo Navigation (wpForo Menu)”. Forum menu is attached to wpForo Menu location.

Forum Sidebar – Does forum has sidebar and widgets?

Forum Sidebar and Widgets – wpForo forum comes with own right (RTL left) sidebar and widgets (Recent Forum Topics, Recent Forum Posts, Forum Search, Forum Online Users).

Forum Layouts – What is forum layout?

Forum Layouts – wpForo Forums has Forum Layouts and allows to create hybrid forums. wpForo theme has built in multi-layout system. Each forum section (category with forums and subForums) can be displayed with different forum layout.

Forum Manager – How to add / edit/ delete forums?

Forum Manager – You can add new category, forum or subForum in Dashboard > Forums > Forums admin page. The Forum add / Forum edit / Forum Delete / Forum Hierarchy can be managed on the same admin page.

Forum Shortcodes – What shortcodes are available?

Forum Shortcodes – Started from version 1.0.0 you can use wpForo shortcodes.

Forum Styles – How to change forum colors?

Forum Styles – Please navigate to Dashboard > wpForo > Settings > Colors & Styles admin page. Here you can find wpForo forum front-end colors and styles. You can choose forum colors: default (blue), red, green, orange, grey, dark. You can select forum color set or customize each color manually.

Forum Member – How to manage forum members?

Forum Member – Forum Members are the same WordPress users. wpForo forums is fully integrated with WordPress. It comes with own Forum Login and Forum Registration page. Users get an advanced Forum Profile. You can manage all members in Dashboard > Forums > Members admin page.

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