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vazco_forum

Author: vazco

This is a sitewide, feature rich forum plugin for Elgg. It supports translations, subscriptions, threaded topics and more. You can view this plugin in action on this page.

 

In casa you're interersted in forum for groups, please look at vazco_groupforum plugin.

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Description

In casa you're interersted in forum for groups, please look at vazco_groupforum plugin.

 

FEATURES:

  • threads can contain other threads or just posts
  • threads can have translations to multiple languages
  • threads can be closed/made sticky
  • each thread has a counter of views
  • you can assign types to forum threads: casual/support/important/official (names and icons can be easily changed)
  • ability to subscribe/unsubscribe from a given topic, allowing you to be informed about any update to the topic
  • multiple architectures (simple/flexible)
  • four widgets for the main page, displaying content of a chosen threads and new posts
  • support of a river
  • forum can be easily extended, allowing to assing separate forums to any entity
  • breadcrumbs

HOW IT LOOKS:

After enabling the plugin you will gain a new option in your tools dropdown - forum:

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Forum will contain threads. Threads can contain other threads, or just posts. Two architecture settings described few paragraphs below allow to create different forum structures.

If you're an administrator, you can set one of four content types for each of the threads:

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If you're an administrator, you will have some additional options when editing threads:

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There are also additional options in plugin's settings:

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There are two possible ways the forum will be implemented on your site:

Simple architecture:

This is a three level architecture. In the first level, forums will be created. Forums work as boards - they can contain only topics. Topics can contain only posts. By default, forums are created only by admins, while threads by all users. You can change this in plugin's settings though.

Flexible architecture:
Threads can contain other threads or just posts. In each thread, threads containing other threads will be displayed before threads containing posts (and will be properly distinguished). You can allow all users to create threads, or you can limit this function to admins only.

You can use translation for threads in plugin's settings. You will be able to input translation for any language present on your site:

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after clicking on 'show all translations', jQuery box appears:

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You can use one of four widgets for your mainpage:

  • one list of all the newest threads and posts:

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  • three separate lists of the content of threads you can define

 

INSTALLATION

  • place in mod folder and enable
  • if you're using vazco_tools plugin, make sure vazco_forum is ABOVE this plugin

 

POSSIBLE FUTURE EXTENSIONS:

  • RSS support
  • images/custom icons for threads
  • additional functions for threads
  • integration with timeline

 

This plugin was created on a promotional terms, it was funded by porky.



Supported Elgg versions: 1.5, 1.6, 1.7

Plugins from Elggdev are often updated for free once newer versions of Elgg is released. This is not a rule though. Some of the less popular plugins will be updated with a delay. You can speed up this process by funding the update.

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