Mingle Forum Plugin

Have you been looking for a Forum Plugin for WordPress that just works? Then look no further! Mingle Forum has been modified to be lightweight, solid, secure, quick to setup, easy to use, and best of all it now integrates seamlessly with or without the Mingle social networking plugin (by Blair Williams). The mission of Mingle Forum is, to “KEEP IT SIMPLE” There are a handful of Forum Plugins for WordPress available but they’re either super buggy, difficult to install, or so bloated with features and settings that it’s a nightmare setting them up. Don’t do that to yourself!!! You can be up and running with Mingle Forum fully installed and configured in as little as 5 minutes…pretty cool eh?

Need support? Navigate your way to the support forum. All plugins are FREE (as-is) therefore we cannot promise all requests will be answered or considered. If you need more immediate help then send “cartpauj” a message on this site and we can discuss Paid support.

NOTE: If you don’t use the mingle plugin…that’s ok! Mingle Forum has been intelli-programmed to detect if Mingle is installed and functions properly with/without it requiring no extra effort on your part.

FEATURES: (Big thanks to Eric Hamby for his past contributions to this plugin)

  • NEW! Create a corresponding Forum post when you create a WordPress post
  • NEW! User Signatures (instead of Bio)
  • Image Uploads on posts
  • SEO Friendly URLs
  • Forum sitemap (../wp-content/plugins/mingle-forum/sitemap.php)
  • Adsense areas
  • Media embedding into forum posts (like Youtube, Flickr, Photobucket…)
  • WordPress 3.0 ready!
  • Categories with sub-forums
  • User Groups
  • User Levels (EX: Newbie, Beginner, Pro…)
  • Private Messages – Forum integrates seamlessly with my Cartpauj PM Plugin (Requires Cartpauj PM vs. 1.0.09 or greater)
  • Moderators
  • Skins
  • Captcha
  • BB Code
  • Smilies
  • Custom Forum Search
  • Guest posts (See Mingle Forum Guest Info add-on by wpweaver)
  • Hot/Very Hot topics
  • Sticky (Pinned) Topics
  • Move, Edit, Remove and Close topics
  • Forum RSS Feeds
  • Email notifications on replies to topics
  • Recent posts widget (or PHP shortcode for your theme)
  • Integrates nicely with most themes (It’s tough to make it work for all themes so some skin modifications may be required for your site)
  • Allow/Dis-allow other users to view your profile from the Forum
  • Supports different languages
  • Integrates with the Mingle Plugin (by Blair Williams) NOTE: The “Mingle” plugin is NOT required for forum to work
    • Avatars
    • Profile’s (Works with/without Pretty Profile URLs enabled in Mingle settings)
    • Activity in the forum shows up as activity in mingle (Helps increase discussion in both your forums and your SN)
    • Deleted forum topics will also delete the corresponding Mingle board post
5 MINUTES (or less) INSTALL:

  • Download Mingle Forum
  • Create a new page for your forum to display on
  • Head to the page you just created for the forum, paste [mingleforum] and save, (NOTE: It’s best to paste that under the HTML tab of your page editor)
  • Head to Dashboard -> Plugins -> Add New -> Upload
  • Browse to the .zip file you downloaded and click open
  • Click Install
  • Click Activate
  • You’ll now see a new admin menu called Mingle Forum
  • Configure your Mingle Forum options, Set a Skin, create your Categories and Forums
  • DONE! It’s that easy
  • NOTE: If upgrading from the old WP Forum or WP Forum Server Plugins you will need to re-set all settings and your skin. Don’t worry, I left most of the DB structure in place so you will NOT lose your threads or posts by upgrading to Mingle Forum.
TUTORIALS:
* Mingle Forum Video Tutorials by Cartpauj.icomnow.com (I highly recommend starting with the videos)
* Setup Guide (Thanks to Robert D for throwing this together)
* If you need to show latest forums posts and don’t want to use the widget you can use <?php latest_activity(5, true); ?> — 5 = Number of posts to show, true = add ul tags before and after the li tags.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • PHP 5.x
  • WordPress 3.0 or newer
SCREENSHOTS:
Admin Options Screen

CHANGE-LOG:
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