BuddyDev

Thanks for downloading Global Forum Plugin. 

Prerequisites:-

1. bbpress:- You can install bbpress by visiting Dashboard->BuddyPress->Forums setup, if you do not want to allow forums with group, just disable bbpress after installation using wp-admin->BuddyPress->Component Setup

Installation:-

1. Unzip the global-forum-1.0.zip
2. Upload the global-forum to wp-content/plugins directory
3. upload the "gf" directory from global-forums to your current active theme.
4. Login to wordpress backend and Activate the Global Forum plugin from Plugins->Installed
5. Check your site. You should see a top navigation link Global forums, if not, visit yoursite.com/siteforums
6. Want to customize the slug, put a line in bp-custom.php define('GF_SLUG','your-custom-slug');
7. Now visit the admin of the plugin and create forums
8. Congrats, You are done.

Upgrading:-

If you want to upgrade from older version to version 1.0, please follow the following steps:-

1. Unzip the global-forum-1.0.zip
2. Upload the global-forum to wp-content/plugins directory by overwriting the older version of "global-forum"
3. If you have made changes to the global forum theme backup it.
4. upload the "gf" directory from global-forums to your current active theme.
5. That's it.

Customization:-

To change the link title from Site Forums to anything else, put following line in your bp-custom.php

[sourcecode language="php"]

<?php define('GF_LINK_TITLE',"what ever title you want");?>

[/sourcecode]

To change the Link slug from "siteforums" to anything else

[sourcecode language="php"]

<?php define('GF_SLUG',"your-slug");?>

[/sourcecode]

To enable disable posting to activity stream, visit  Site Forum->Admin->settings.