WP Discussion Board is an easy way to add a discussion board, message board, or simple forum to your WordPress site. The plugin creates a new post type, allows you to add a front-end log-in and registration form, and decide who has access to your WP Discussion Board. We offer a free version and a Pro version of the plugin.

• • Easy to Use: Discussion Board has a one-click installation—get your forum up and running in seconds. Discussion Board Pro adds more options.
  • Boards: Create sub-forums through boards and set different user permissions for each board.
  • Mobile Friendly: Discussion Board works perfectly on all devices—desktop, laptop, and mobile.
  • SEO Friendly: Forums are a great way to boost your site’s SEO through user engagement and generated content.
  • Spam Unfriendly: Discussion Board hates spam—prevent spammers from posting through user moderation.
  • Profiles: Display user profiles, including topics started, replies made, and blogs.
  • Following: Users can follow topics and boards to get notifications of any new content.
  • Works With Any Theme: You can use any theme you like—start running a forum on your site today.
  • WYSIWYG Editing: Option to enable a WYSIWYG editor on the front end.

WP Discussion Board Pro Features
We also offer a Pro version of the plugin, which takes WP Discussion Board to the next level by adding tons more forum functionality on top of what already exists in the free version.

Boards: WP Discussion Board Pro allows you to create sub-forums within your site. Your users can choose which board to allocate their topics to, allowing you to keep your forum nicely organized and helping your users find the topics they’re most interested in. Each board is SEO-ready and can display a thumbnail image, description, and metadata.

• • Number of topics within the board.
  • Number of replies to topics within the board.
  • Time since content was last added to the board (freshness).
  • Number of users interacting on the board, either posting topics or replying to topics (voices).
  • Recent or most popular topics are listed below the metadata.

Board Permissions: You can specify different access permissions by role for each board. So one board could be open to anyone to post on, and another board could only be available to users with a certain role, e.g., subscriber or customer, to post on. One board could be viewable by anyone, and another board could only be viewed by admins. And so on.

Child Boards: WP Discussion Board Pro allows you to create sub-forums within your site. Your users can choose which board to allocate their topics to, allowing you to keep your forum nicely organized and helping your users find the topics they’re most interested in.

Subscribe to Board: Users can choose to subscribe to (follow) specific boards in order to receive email notifications of any new topic or reply posted on that specific board.

Follow Topics: In WP Discussion Board Pro, users can subscribe to (follow) any topic they wish. They’ll receive an email notification whenever another user leaves a reply on the followed topic. Users can choose to unfollow a topic at any time.

Admin Approvals: The admin approvals feature allows you to decide who can join your discussion board. When a new user registers for your site, you’ll receive an email with the user’s details and a link to approve the registration. If you decide not to approve the user, they won’t be able to post.

User Profiles: With user profiles, you can choose to display selected user information about each user on a dedicated page.

• • Biographical details for the user
  • Date of joining
  • Number of topics posted
  • Number of replies posted
  • A feed of topics started by the user
  • A feed of replies made by the user
  • A feed of topics followed by the user

WYSIWYG Editing: WP Discussion Board Pro gives you the option to enable a WYSIWYG editor on the front end.

Media Uploads: WP Discussion Board Pro allows you to enable image uploads for new topics.

Categories and tags: You can define categories and tags for topics. Users can allocate their new topics to pre-existing categories and/or tags, or you can choose to allow them to define their own.

Theme friendly: WP Discussion Board Pro is happy working with any WordPress theme. It has neutral styling, and you can easily use custom CSS if you wish.

Recent Topics and Recent Replies widgets: WP Discussion Board Pro ships with a number of different widgets that can be added to your website's sidebar to display the most recent topics, replies, and user data.

Top Posters and Top Commenters: Display lists of most active users