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:-
- Unzip the global-forum-1.0.zip
- Upload the global-forum to wp-content/plugins directory
- upload the "gf" directory from global-forums to your current active theme.
- Login to wordpress backend and Activate the Global Forum plugin from Plugins->Installed
- Check your site. You should see a top navigation link Global forums, if not, visit yoursite.com/siteforums
- Want to customize the slug, put a line in bp-custom.php define('GF_SLUG','your-custom-slug');
- Now visit the admin of the plugin and create forums
- Congrats, You are done.
Upgrading:-
If you want to upgrade from older version to version 1.0, please follow the following steps:-
- Unzip the global-forum-1.0.zip
- Upload the global-forum to wp-content/plugins directory by overwriting the older version of "global-forum"
- If you have made changes to the global forum theme backup it.
- upload the "gf" directory from global-forums to your current active theme.
- 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.