by simplepress 4.2 (23 reviews)

Simple:Press Forum

Name: Simple:Press Forum
Rating: 4.2 (23 reviews)
Author: simplepress

The most versatile and feature-rich forum plugin for WordPress. Create unlimited forums with awesome features directly in your WordPress site.

Simple:Press Forum ranks #10,492 among WordPress.org plugins with 300+ active installations, is #363 of 2,881 in the Discussion & Community category, a 4.2/5 rating from 23 reviews, and was last updated Jan 29, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.8.8 (Current: 7.1)

v6.11.14 Current Version v6.11.14

Updated 7 months ago Last Update on 29 Jan, 2026

Refreshed 9 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#363 of 2,881 in Discussion & Community Top 25% by installs

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Rank

#10,492

-4 this week

Active Installs

300+

-17.8%

KW Avg Position

18.4

12.4 better

Downloads

48.5K

+6 today

Support Resolved

100%

— No change

Rating

84%

Review 4.2 out of 5

4.2 (23 reviews)

Next Milestone 400

Total Progress 59%

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Growth Needed

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Reviews & Ratings

4.2

23 reviews

Overall 84%

18 (78%)

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4 (17%)

Support Threads Overview

Resolved

Unresolved

Total Threads

Resolved

Unresolved

100%

Resolution Rate

Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

18 known vulnerabilities on record · 6 in the last 24 months · checked 1 month ago

Mar 31, 2025

Simple:Press Forum [simplepress] < 6.11.6

CVE-2025-31386 · Fixed in v6.11.6
Feb 28, 2025

Simple:Press Forum [simplepress] < 6.10.13

CVE-2024-13518 · Fixed in v6.10.13
Feb 26, 2025

Simple:Press Forum [simplepress] < 6.10.11

CVE-2024-10483 · Fixed in v6.10.11
Jan 29, 2025

Simple:Press Forum [simplepress] < 6.10.12

CVE-2024-12409 · Fixed in v6.10.12
Jan 17, 2025

Simple:Press Forum [simplepress] < 6.10.11

Fixed in v6.10.11
Jan 17, 2025

Simple:Press Forum [simplepress] < 6.10.11

Fixed in v6.10.11
Oct 20, 2023

Simple:Press Forum [simplepress] < 6.6.1

CVE-2020-36706 · Fixed in v6.6.1
Nov 29, 2022

Simple:Press Forum [simplepress] < 6.8.1

CVE-2022-4027 · Fixed in v6.8.1
Nov 29, 2022

Simple:Press Forum [simplepress] < 6.8.1

CVE-2022-4028 · Fixed in v6.8.1
Nov 29, 2022

Simple:Press Forum [simplepress] < 6.8.1

CVE-2022-4029 · Fixed in v6.8.1

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Plugin Details

Version: 6.11.14
Last Updated: Jan 29, 2026
Requires WP: 5.7+
Tested Up To: 6.8.8
PHP Version: 7.0 or higher
Author: simplepress

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.2
Reviews: 23
Support Threads: 2
Resolved: 100%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

Simple:Press Forum is for WordPress site owners who want to add a forum to their site. It solves the need for a scalable, integrated, customizable forum system with optional premium add-ons for extended functionality.

Unlimited forums
Subforum support
Private and public forums
Theme and template driven
Data import from bbPress, Asgaros
Multi-site support
User group and permission system
SEO optimized

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Simple:Press Forum

Now that you have installed your forums read our getting started pages. I don't receive e-mail notifications There are several factors that can influence e-mail notifications delivery. The best thing you can do to diagnose email delivery issues is to install a plugin that shows you an email log. We recommend MAILGUN or SMTP POST. The logs will let you know if emails are being generated and not delivered or just not being generated at all. I cannot seem to create a new forum. When I select a FORUM GROUP in which to create the forum, nothing happens. Use your CTRL-F5 key to refresh your browser cache for that page. Sometimes old CSS and JS scripts just needs to be cleared out and CTRL-F5 does that.

Yes! You can import data into our forum from other forums including bbPress, Asgaros and others. Get the importer here; With a bit of development skill you can even build your own importer for something we don't already have! Or contact us to build one for you or to use our flat-fee import data service. I am a WordPress admin, but I can't see Forum menu items When a new WordPress administrator is created by another WordPress admin, the new WP Admin is NOT automatically granted rights to the forum. Instead, an existing forum admin needs to explicitly grant the new WP ADMIN forum privileges under the FORUM->ADMINS menu option. One of the nice consequences of this division of security is that you can make a user a Forum Admin without making them a WordPress admin. Upon installation, existing WP admins are made Forum admins; so this issue will only present itself when a new WP admin is created after the forum is installed.

Simple:Press does not use short-codes. Instead, it outputs the entire forum directly into the content area of the WordPress page you specify. By default that page is called FORUM but you can easily switch it to a different page in FORUM->INTEGRATION->PAGE AND PERMALLINKS.

Many themes use a sidebar on their default WordPress pages. This reduces the content area that the forum is allowed to use. Additionally, themes might designate a content are of only x% of the width of the screen. These two practices are the primary reasons why the forum might not look the way it should. However, the good news is that many of the higher quality themes provide a "full width" page template or allow you to change the default content area width of pages. Contact your theme developer to find out if they have either of these two options.

All the other reputable membership plugins use WordPress ROLES to control their membership. Simple:Press forums does too. So you can use ROLES to integrate with most other membership plugins if you like. Just contact us if you need more help understanding what this means.

The free version of the plugin does not allow file uploads. But the premium version does. The premium version also allow users to list, view and delete their prior file uploads. The free version of the plugin can still display images that are stored elsewhere - just paste the link to the image into the post editor.

The editor in the free version is a pure text editor. However, Simple:Press Pro comes with a full wysiwyg editor - the same one that WordPress uses - TinyMCE.