Good, but lacking one key feature.

  • StashCat

    (@stashcat)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    My favourite forum plugin for WordPress at the moment. Stays true to the “OG” forum layout, unlike bbPress, which is why people would prefer this.
    But, sadly, it lacks quite a required key feature – post permissions. At the moment, anyone can post anywhere, except for closed threads. The least I’d be satisfied with is an admin-only forum.
    Otherwise, it’s very high-quality – I have not yet experienced any flaws.

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  • Thread Starter StashCat

    (@stashcat)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    An addition: what I exactly meant by “post permissions” is separate permissions to post, reply etc. on selected forums or categories.

    Plugin Author Asgaros

    (@asgaros)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hello StashCat,

    thank you for your review! I am aware of this feature lack because I need this functionality for a site I am working for too. The point is that it can be really annoying if every WordPress plug-in has their own user permission management because an administrator has to adjust settings at a lot of places when adding new users with higher permissions.

    I wrote a little WordPress plugin for this because I am already using the User Groups plugin from Katz Web Services (https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-groups/) on one of my sites. So I thought it would be nice to use the existing user groups settings of this plugin and integrate them into Asgaros Forum. You can find a development version of this user-groups/asgaros-forum integration plugin on my GitHub site:

    Asgaros Forum User Groups:
    https://github.com/Asgaros/asgaros-forum-user-groups

    Maybe it can be useful for you. But be aware that there is a bug in the actual User Groups plugin v1.1.3 which breaks some functionality with WordPress 4.4. You can find a workaround here
    https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-is-not-allowed-to-manage-these-items?replies=3#post-7759330 as long as there is not a bugfix release from the creator of the User Groups plugin.

    Can you have a look at this? Maybe it will be useful for you. Maybe some day I will integrate it into the main Asgaros Forum plugin.

    Thread Starter StashCat

    (@stashcat)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    That works decently, but another slight problem is that I can’t let users view the categories, just not post in them. Hope you’ll add that in soon.

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