Descripción
Simple:Press is an all-in-one, feature-rich forum plugin designed to seamlessly integrate with your WordPress site.
With a focus on performance and user experience, it offers an extensive range of free and premium features to meet all your forum needs.
Key Features
- Enterprise-grade performance, scalable for thousands of users
- Seamless integration with WordPress user and security models, featuring a robust user group and permission system
- SEO optimized for enhanced search engine visibility
- Highly customizable and extendable for a tailored experience
- Data import compatibility with other forum platforms, such as bbPress and Asgaros
- Multi-level forum structures with subforum support
- Options for both private and public forums
- Fully theme and template driven for easy customization
- Selection of adaptable themes with customizable colors and font sizes to match your brand identity
- Extensive administration options and settings for streamlined management
Simple:Press Pro
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.
Some of the included add-ons are:
- Analytics: Engaging charts displaying forum data
- Ads: An advanced advertising engine integrated within the forum
- Private messaging system: Enables users to exchange private messages
- Push Notifications: Supports SMS, Pushover, PushBullet, and Slack
- Reputation System
- Polls
- Admin Bar: Front-end management tool for admins and moderators, eliminating the need for wp-admin access
- Image, media, and file uploader: Allows designated users to upload files and media to topics and posts
- Multiple post editors, including TinyMCE
- Who’s Online
View all add-ons and pricing.
Compatibility
Simple:Press supports standard and multi-site versions of WordPress and was built to be
compatible with most themes, both free and commercial.
Languages
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!
View our translation site
Latest Updates
6.9.0
- Resolve PHP8.2 issues
- Fix installation warnings when activating and installing Simple:Press
- Only allow Simple:Press to run queries on Simple:Press pages
- Minor admin cleanup, remove buttons, missing font-fix
- Added progress indicator when uploading theme or add-ons
- Added indicator when activating/deactivating add-ons
- Fix backend and frontend issue with disabled forums
- Fixed SQL-error on install
6.8.10
- Fix
- G00000: Added new optional constant to allow sp-resources to live in uploads folder
- G00000: Fixed CSS font issue in admin
6.8.9
- Fix
- G00000: Fixes issue in
spa-admin-notice.phpthat causes upgrades to fail
- G00000: Fixes issue in
6.8.8
- Fix
- G00000: Added correct version number
6.8.7
- Fix
- G00000: Fixed alignment issue in modern theme
6.8.6
- Fix
- G00000: Added missing version number for WP.org
6.8.5
- Fix
- G00000: Fix issue with upgrading
6.8.4
- Fix
- G00000: Fix: TinyMCE editor not working
6.8.3
- Fix
- G00000: Special rank badges were not displaying in admin or front-end.
6.8.2
- Fix
- G00000: A couple of PHP 8.1 compatibility fixes.
6.8.1
- Fix
- G00000: Various security related fixes.
6.8.0
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New
- G00000: Compatibility with PHP 8.x. If using premium add-ons, new versions will be required.
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Tweak
- G00000: Show error code when there’s an error with the license process.
6.7.0
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New
- G00122: Add option to sort by the membership column in the FORUM->USERS->MEMBER INFORMATION list.
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Tweak
- G00126: Tools popup on desktop makes better use of horizontal space.
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Fix
- G00121: Fix an issue with deleting subsites rendering all user posts as guests in any other site that has the forum in use.
- G00116: When sorting the user list under FORUM->USERS->MEMBER INFORMATION, the list would be unstyled.
- G00117: Custom icons not rendering in drop-down properly.
- G00123: Large custom icon images need to be resized when viewing the forum list in admin.
- G00098: Fix admin screen issue where the Bulk Actions Arrow in MEMBER INFORMATION is too close to text.
- G00022: Deleting a topic from the FORUM TOOLS popup did not refresh the screen.
- G00100: Moving users not belonging to any user group did not refresh the section after the users were moved.
- 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.
- 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.
- G00000: Multiple tweaks related to extra line breaks showing up in SP themes when the WP 59 FSE theme was in use.
6.6.6
- Fix
- G00000: Fix a drag-n-drop issue introduced by WP 5.9.
6.6.5
- Fix
- G00000: Add support for FSE themes introduced in WP 5.9.
6.6.4
- Fix
- G00000: Check to make sure a YOAST class is callable before attempting to use it. Compatibility fix for Yoast 17.8.0
- Dev
- G00000: Add a filter in sp-api-class-spcauths.php to support future functionality.
6.6.3
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Tweak
- 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.
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Fix
- G00110: Could not reorder profile tabs and menus in admin screen.
6.6.2
- Fix
- G00000: Page number overlap on certain admin screens when the page numbers get to 3 digits.
- G00000: When deleting users and choosing the option to delete the user, they now get deleted instead of being set to «guest».
6.6.1
- Fix
- G00000: (Security) Verify a nonce & user capability before allowing certain file-related operations.
6.6.0
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New
- G00000: Introduction of a «white label» mode that removes most references to Simple:Press.
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Improved
- G00000: Updated the Modern2020 theme to the latest version.
- G00000: Much better support for WordPress Multisite with numerous multi-site related fixes and improvements.
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Fix
- G00000: Fix a compatibility issue with PHP 7.4.0
- G00000: Fix a string that needed to be in double-quotes instead of single quotes in order to de-reference an embedded variable.
- 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.
6.5.1
- Fix
- G00000: Sometimes new installs would require a CTRL-F5 to refresh the screen before being able to add forums or upload plugin files.
6.5.0
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New
- G00000: The default theme for new installations is now Modern-2020
- G00000: Added a number of template tags to support new themes.
- G00000: updated some existing template tags with new options to support new themes.
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Fix
- G00103: Reverse sorting of topics and forums resulted in a 500 error on the front-end and errors in the WP error log
6.4.0
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New
- G00000: Add new popup to show user groups a member belongs to under FORUM->USERS->MEMBER INFORMATION
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Fix
- G00090: Issue with using the help buttons and icons – they only worked on the first click until the full screen was refreshed.
- G00000: Iconsets were duplicated in drop-downs
- G00000: Member popup was unformatted in admin area
- G00000: Remove black dots from radio buttons in admin area
- G00000: Clicking the SHOW button under USER GROUPS->MANAGER USER GROUPS sometimes did nothing
- G00000: Clicking the SHOW button under COMPONENTS->FORUM RANKS->SPECIAL RANKS sometimes did nothing
- G00094: WordPress menus do not sync with Simple:Press menus
Capturas
Example of front-end forum screen. 
Main permissions definition screen 
An example of an admin screen 
Housekeeping and maintenance screen 
View of left menu with some add-ons enabled 
Main front-end screen using the old REBOOT theme - a more traditional compressed forum format 
A list of topics in a forum 
Customize colors in the theme - easily make the forum match your brand. 
Main front-end forum screen with many elements in a different color as set by the theme customizer. 
Main front-end forum screen on a mobile device in a different color 
View a post on a mobile device 
The statistics area at the bottom of the forum screen 
The front-end admin options for a post 
Instalación
Using The WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
- Search for ‘Simple Press’
- Click ‘Install Now’ and activate the plugin
Uploading in WordPress Dashboard
- Download
simplepress.zipfrom this page - Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
- Select
simplepress.zipfrom your computer - Click ‘Install Now’ and activate the plugin
Using FTP
- Download
simplepress.zipfrom this page - Extract the
simplepressdirectory to your computer - Upload the
simplepressdirectory to the/wp-content/plugins/directory and activate the plugin
Setup
After you activated the plugin through the plugins dashboard, you need to run the installer. Click the INSTALL button at the top of the admin pages or go to Forum->Install.
This creates the tables and default data that the plugin requires.
Getting Started
Now that you have installed your forums read our getting started pages.
FAQ
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I’ve installed the plugin – now what?
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Now that you have installed your forums read our getting started pages.
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I don’t receive e-mail notifications
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There are several factors that can influence e-mail notifications delivery. The best thing you can do to diagnose email delivery issues is to install a plugin that shows you an email log. We recommend MAILGUN or SMTP POST. The logs will let you know if emails are being generated and not delivered or just not being generated at all.
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I cannot seem to create a new forum. When I select a FORUM GROUP in which to create the forum, nothing happens.
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Use your CTRL-F5 key to refresh your browser cache for that page. Sometimes old CSS and JS scripts just needs to be cleared out and CTRL-F5 does that.
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Can I import data from my old forum?
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Yes! You can import data into our forum from other forums including bbPress, Asgaros and others. Get the importer here;
With a bit of development skill you can even build your own importer for something we don’t already have!
Or contact us to build one for you or to use our flat-fee import data service.
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When a new WordPress administrator is created by another WordPress admin, the new WP Admin is NOT automatically granted rights to the forum. Instead, an existing forum admin needs to explicitly grant the new WP ADMIN forum privileges under the FORUM->ADMINS menu option.
One of the nice consequences of this division of security is that you can make a user a Forum Admin without making them a WordPress admin.
Upon installation, existing WP admins are made Forum admins; so this issue will only present itself when a new WP admin is created after the forum is installed.
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What shortcodes are available?
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Simple:Press does not use short-codes. Instead, it outputs the entire forum directly into the content area of the WordPress page you specify. By default that page is called FORUM but you can easily switch it to a different page in FORUM->INTEGRATION->PAGE AND PERMALLINKS.
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Why is the forum so narrow?
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Many themes use a sidebar on their default WordPress pages. This reduces the content area that the forum is allowed to use.
Additionally, themes might designate a content are of only x% of the width of the screen.
These two practices are the primary reasons why the forum might not look the way it should.
However, the good news is that many of the higher quality themes provide a «full width» page template or allow you to change the default content area width of pages. Contact your theme developer to find out if they have either of these two options.
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Can I charge for forum access?
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All the other reputable membership plugins use WordPress ROLES to control their membership. Simple:Press forums does too. So you can use ROLES to integrate with most other membership plugins if you like. Just contact us if you need more help understanding what this means.
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Can I upload files to posts?
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The free version of the plugin does not allow file uploads. But the premium version does. The premium version also allow users to list, view and delete their prior file uploads.
The free version of the plugin can still display images that are stored elsewhere – just paste the link to the image into the post editor.
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The editor looks simple – is there a better one?
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The editor in the free version is a pure text editor. However, Simple:Press Pro comes with a full wysiwyg editor – the same one that WordPress uses – TinyMCE.
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