WP Symposium Pro Online Manual

Forum YouTube videos

Contents

1 Purpose
2 Availability
3 Customising
4 Example
5 Options

Purpose

To show a YouTube video below your post simply copy and paste the YouTube URL when viewing the video on YouTube into your post and it will be detected, and the video displayed below the post.

The video is responsive, that is, will re-size when viewed on mobile devices, tablets, etc.

Availability

Provided in the Extensions Plugin.

Customising

Not applicable.

Example

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Options

Not applicable.

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Activity attachments

The attachment of images, the inclusion of YouTube URLs, SoundCloud audio and website URL previews.

Custom Forum Fields (Forum Extensions)

Add optional or mandatory fields that can be completed when creating the first post on a forum.

Forum Answers

An answer can be selected (and unselected) by either the original forum post author, or site administrators.

Forum posts/replies to activity stream

Posts and replies that users make on forums will be added to their activity stream.

Forum Likes/Dislikes

A lovely way to engage your users is to allow them to like and dislike forum activity, which also gives feedback to original forum posts.

Forum Search

Adds a search feature for your forums.

Forum Security

Fine tune permissions for your forums by WordPress roles.

Forum Subscriptions

Email alerts to relevant forum activity for your users is a great way to keep your users engaged

Forum Toolbar

Adds a WYSIWYG or BBcode toolbar to the forum.

Forum User Signatures

Let users set their forum signature via their Edit Profile screen:

Image and Document attachments (Forum)

Adds the option to upload images and documents to forum posts and replies.

Private Message Attachments

You can choose to allow user’s to attach images/documents to messages, and recognise YouTube URLs to show the video below the message.

Forum Page

WP Symposium Pro supports unlimited forums, and setting them up couldn’t be easier.

User Tags

Just type @ in an activity post or reply, and tag a friend who will get an alert with a link to your mention of them.

[wps-forum]

Displays topics (and replies if style is set to ‘classic’) of a forum.

[wps-forum-backto]

Displays a link back to the forum topics. Only shown when viewing a single topic.

[wps-forum-children]

Displays child forums as setup in Edit Forum.

[wps-forum-comment]

This shortcode, whilst it still works, has been replaced with [wps-forum-reply].

[wps-forum-reply]

Displays a text area to add a reply to a forum topic. Only shown when viewing a single topic.

[wps-forum-page]

Displays a ready made page for a forum.

[wps-forum-post]

Displays a textarea for adding a forum topic.

[wps-forum-search]

Displays a forum search feature.

[wps-forum-search-results]

Displays forum search results.

[wps-forum-sharethis]

Inserts ShareThis code added to a forum.

[wps-forum-show-posts]

Flexible way to show forum posts.

[wps-forums]

Displays a top level of all forums.

[wps-is-forum-posts-list]

Only displays content viewing a list of forum posts.

[wps-is-forum-single-post]

Only displays content when viewing a single forum post with replies/comments.

[wps-manage-subscriptions]

Allows the user to manage their forum subscriptions.

[wps-subscribe-forum]

Allows the user to subscribe to a forum for new posts.

[wps-subscribe-post]

Allows the user to subscribe to a single forum post for replies.