Forums

Plugin Installation and Use Instructions

To install:

1. Download the plugin file
2. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
3. Upload /forums/ folder to /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your site
4. Visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate it there.

Note: If you have an older version of the plugin installed in /mu-plugins/ please delete it.

• That's it! No configuration necessary!

Please Note:

The config section in forums.php has these options you can change:

• $forums_topics_per_page = 20; //The number of topics per page
• $forums_posts_per_page = 20; //The number of posts per page
• $forums_max_forums = 1; //The maximum number of forums per blog - Max 25
• $forums_upgrades_forums = 10; //The maximum number of forums when the upgrade package is active. This overides the max forums setting - Max 25
• $forums_enable_upgrades = '0'; //Either 0 or 1 - 0 = disabled/1 = enabled

To change the config section you need to open forums-framework.php using a text editor such as EditPlus and configure the options in the config section.

Read more about editing php and using Text Editors here!

To Use

1.  Inside your blog dashboard go to Forum Tab

1. Click on New to create a new forum.

2.  Add the name of your forum, description and if you desire select the main and secondary colors used, header and border color and border width then click Save.

3.  Copy the forum short code

4.  Create a new Page (or Post)

5.  Click on the HTML tab, paste the forum short cut and then click Publish

6.  View your Page (or Post) with the embedded forum and click on the link to create a new forum topic.

7.  Just add a title and contents to the post then click Send Post.

8.  At the forums overview page, you can see the title, description and also do a search of the specific forum easy peasy:.

Update Notifications

• Included with every download from WPMU DEV is a file called update-notifications.php
• You should make sure that this file is *always* placed in /mu-plugins/
• It will communicate to you critical information about plugins and theme updates - including any security alerts!