Important
Version 2.0.0 of the extension was released on September 3rd, 2025. The legacy templates system used previously has been replaced with a better integration with WordPress’ standard Templates system.
These documentation pages are currently being updated to reflect the latest changes in version 2.0.0 of the extension.
Groups Forums provides a powerful and yet light-weight forum system for WordPress sites.
Based on Groups, unlimited forums can be maintained. Open or member-only forums allow participants to post topics and reply.
Features
- Front End and Back End topic submission
- Topic Moderators
- Sticky topics
- Subscribe to topics with the option to leave a reply or not
- Customizable comment notifications with Groups Notifications
- Pending/published topic notifications for site admin, moderators and authors.
- Support for theme templates with theme-neutral default templates provided for topics and forums
- Widgets included : Forums, Topics, Topic Tags, Topic Search
- Shortcodes included : list forums, let users submit and edit topics on the Front End, show user’s topics, topic tag clouds and topic search form.
Requirements
The plugin is an extension to and requires Groups.
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