Simple:Press Forum

Simple:Press is an all-in-one, feature-rich forum plugin designed to seamlessly integrate with your WordPress site.
With a focus on performance and user experience, it offers an extensive range of free and premium features to meet all your forum needs.

The plugin has undergone rigorous testing and offers complete support for PHP 7.4 up to PHP 8.4.

Key Features

• Enterprise-grade performance, scalable for thousands of users
• Seamless integration with WordPress user and security models, featuring a robust user group and permission system
• SEO optimized for enhanced search engine visibility
• Highly customizable and extendable for a tailored experience
• Data import compatibility with other forum platforms, such as bbPress and Asgaros
• Multi-level forum structures with subforum support
• Options for both private and public forums
• Fully theme and template driven for easy customization
• Selection of adaptable themes with customizable colors and font sizes to match your brand identity
• Extensive administration options and settings for streamlined management

Simple:Press Pro

Take your forum to the next level by adding Simple:Press Pro, a bundle of add-ons that bring over 100 additional features to your forum.

Some of the included add-ons are:

• Analytics: Engaging charts displaying forum data
• Ads: An advanced advertising engine integrated within the forum
• Private messaging system: Enables users to exchange private messages
• Push Notifications: Supports SMS, Pushover, PushBullet, and Slack
• Reputation System
• Polls
• Admin Bar: Front-end management tool for admins and moderators, eliminating the need for wp-admin access
• Image, media, and file uploader: Allows designated users to upload files and media to topics and posts
• Multiple post editors, including TinyMCE
• Who’s Online

View all add-ons and pricing.

Compatibility

Simple:Press supports standard and multi-site versions of WordPress and was built to be
compatible with most themes, both free and commercial.

Languages

Simple:Press is available in a variety of languages and volunteers and customers are always adding more! Portions of the plugin have been translated into 20+ languages by our users and volunteers. These include German, Portuguese(BR), Arabic, Chinese, French, Italian, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish and more!
View our translation site

Latest Updates

6.11.14 – January 2026

• Feature: Added ability for developers to customize which HTML tags are allowed in forum topic displays through filter hooks
• Improvement: Better error messages for navigation popup
• Improvement: Added border styling to page jump input field for better visibility
• Improvement: Cleaned up date formatting code
• Bug: Fixed database cleanup function that was crashing
• Bug: Fixed new user email system to properly handle admin notification settings and email formatting

Read the full description on the official page →