SiForum a WordPress Forum Theme

Minimalist Forum and Community Theme made with WordPress and BuddyPress

Inspired from Discourse, Flarum and NodeBB. But much much simpler and FAST.

DEMO: https://www.atarikafa.com/topluluk/

Features

• WordPress
• BuddyPress
• Best SEO
• Post/Category Based (no custom posttypes or taxonomies)
• Custom Category Colors (Hex, RGB or Name)
• Custom Category Icons (Native WordPress Dash Icons No 3th party)
• Advance Profiles
• Custom Avatar
• Custom Profile Banner
• Profile Status Sharing
• Friend Follow
• Private Messaging
• @Mention Users
• Notifications
• Subscriptions
• Invite System

Requirements

• WordPress
• BuddyPress
• SiForum Theme

Setup

1. Install BuddyPress Plugin and Change BuddyPress setting to legacy theme (Settings > Buddypress > options)
2. Install SiForum Theme
3. Set the default registered user to "author" role
4. Add some categories, category colors (css color names or #ccc color codes) and category icons (i used dashicons just paste the class name thats it)
5. Disable guest commenting since this theme using comments as replies
6. Open register to everyone or use Buddypress invite system or both.
7. Recommended: Install a Comment Edit plugin for users. https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-comment-editing/
8. Recommended: Install a security and role restriction plugin for disabling the wp-admin https://wordpress.org/plugins/protect-wp-admin/
9. Disable nested replies

Done.

You can have fun posting topics and start creating your community...

Advantages

• Unlimited Plugins
• Great SEO
• Endless Possibilities
• Easy to Edit Theme
• Backward Compatibility
• Forward Compatibilty

Screenshots

Index

Post

@Mentions

Activity

Profile