Advanced Forums Plugin

Before creating Forums & Topics in them, Categories for forums need to be created first which site admin can create from Admin Panel of this Plugin. Admin can create as many categories for the forums as want by filling the various fields such as :

• Category Title
• Category Description
• Category Icon
• Member Levels

You can also create the subcategories and sub-subcategories by selecting their Parent Category at the time of filling the form for creation of Category.

Online forums allow site users to post various topics in the forums and can share their ideas, views and opinions about that topic and can communicate with each other. So Advanced Forums Plugin is one of a kind which help site Admin to create unlimited forums from the Admin Panel of this Plugin and other site users can post discussion topics in various forums and can get answers for them. Admin can edit / delete forums from Admin Panel.

At the time of Forum creation, site admin can fill various details for it from the Admin Panel such as:

• Forum Title
• Forum Description
• Category
• Member Levels
• Forum Icon

Site users can post unlimited topics in any forum of their choice which was created by the site admin from the admin panel. On any of the topic, other site users can give their replies & answers and share their opinions & suggestions for that topic.

With the help of Quick Navigation, site users can access Categories, Sub-Categories and Forums in just one click. As this navigation menu provides a dropdown of all the categories and forums through which users can easily access them.

This plugin provides Dashboard for forums to every site user where he/she can have a track of all the activities performed for the forums such as :

• My Topics: This section contains all the topics created by the user in the forums.
• My Posts: Here all the posts given on the various topics of the forums by the users will get listed.
• My Subscribe Topics: This section contains a list of all the topics subscribed by the user.
• Topics I Liked: Here all the topics of the forums liked by the user will get displayed.
• Posts I Liked: This section contains all the posts liked by the user in the forum topics.
• Edit Signature: Here you can edit your signature which will be displayed on the Topic View Page.

Topic Search Page comes up with this plugin help users to search any of the created forum topic and post under various categories as per their choice. This page lists all the topics and posts searched by users.

• Users are allowed to like any of the forum topic and post as per their choice from the forum topic view page.
• Also the forum topics and posts can be easily shared from its view page anytime the user wants.
• If any of the user found forum topic post irrelevant or offensive, then he/she can report that reply from topic’s view page.

With the help of this plugin, users can add Forum Signature which will be beneficial for them as this signature will be displayed after every post done by them and also make their posts identical. These forum signatures will also increase the visibility of posts and helps in increasing the reputation of users.

To give more visibility to the Forum Topics, this plugin provides you Rating feature with the help of which users can give ratings out of 5 for the forum topics from Forum Topic’s View Page.

• Each Forum Topic can have its own Tags / Keywords which will help in better searching of the topics on your website.
• These tags can be shown in attractive Hierarchy view on your website. Clicking on each tag will show topics using the same tag. Tags also have their own Browse page for specific search of Topics.

Forum statistics like Total Forums, Total Posts, Topics, Users, Total Active Users etc. can be displayed in an attractive manner using Forum Statistics widget.

This plugin have very attractive 2 different design views to be chosen from for the Categories and Forums. For both the views, various settings like subcategories, sub-subcategories, count of categories, etc. are available in the Layout editor in admin panel which will make the Forum Main Page with an attractive and eye-catching look.

• Site Admin is allowed to manage all of the topics posted by the site users. Admin can use this page to monitor the forum topics and delete offensive material if necessary.
• This section will display all the details related to the forum topics such as Topic ID, Forum Name, Title Owner, Creation Date etc.

• Site Admin is allowed to manage all of the topic posts submitted by the site users on your website. Admin can use this page to monitor the topic posts and delete offensive material if necessary.
• This section will display all the details related to the topic posts such as Post ID, Post Title, Topic Name, Forum Name, Owner, Creation Date etc.