wpForo is a lightweight, modern WordPress forum plugin built to scale from small discussion boards to large online communities.
Multi-Layout & Design System
- 5 Forum Layouts: Includes Extended, Simplified, Question & Answer (Q&A), Threaded, and Boxed layouts. Different layouts can be assigned to different sub-forums.
- Custom Styling: Features built-in color styles (including dark mode) and fully responsive, mobile-friendly layouts.
- Multi-Board Architecture: Allows you to create and manage multiple separate, independent forums within a single WordPress installation.
- User Profiles: Detailed member profile pages with activity feeds, badges, avatars, signatures, and custom fields.
- User Groups & Access Sets: Custom user roles with granular control over viewing, posting, and moderation permissions per forum.
- Reputation & Badges: Gamification features that award points, customizable reputation titles, and badges based on user participation.
- Rich Text Editor: Built-in WYSIWYG editor supporting media attachments, formatting, code highlighting, and polls/emojis.
- Reactions & @Mentions: Live user notification system triggered when members like/react to posts or tag someone using <span>@mention</span>.
- Subscriptions & Bookmarks: Email and on-site alerts for subscribed forums or specific topic threads, alongside topic bookmarking.
- Front-End Moderation: Tools to approve, reject, move, merge, split, or delete topics directly from the forum interface.
- Spam & Security: Built-in anti-spam system, Akismet integration, user banning tools (IP/email), and GDPR compliance features.
- Built-in Caching: Integrated forum cache system to ensure fast loading times on large sites.
- Built-in SEO: Automatic SEO permalinks, Open Graph tags, sitemaps, and search engine pings.
- Community Integrations: Native compatibility with membership and community plugins like BuddyPress, Ultimate Member, WooCommerce, and Paid Memberships Pro.
- 360° AI Features: Built-in AI tools for semantic search, topic summarization, automatic translation, spam/toxic content detection, and automated AI responses.
