Hi guys,
Is there any stable forum package for Umbraco 8?
I see that most Forum packages have not been maintained for a long time.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
There are none that I am aware of, there are a couple of very old ones but they do not work in version 8, not sure if the source is available but I would imagine it would be quite a big rewrite to get it working.
You may be better off looking for a forum that can perhaps use the umbraco membership, or change the umbraco membership to use a forums membership provider and just integrate them that way.
If you need a starting point, although this is old and not compatible with v8, I have been able to work out most of what was done using a combination of the files and the package.xml to extrapolate what document types were created for it etc.
I have currently got most of it working to a degree :)
If I get chance to finish the upgrade of it to v8 I will try and repackage it all.
I have almost completed rewriting the Simpily Forum package to work in v8, had to do quite a bit of rework in the backend stuff so need to do a bit more testing, but should be finished in a few days hopefully.
Please excuse the out of the blue reply to this thread, but I was looking for a forum plugin for Umbraco 8 and came across your posts showing some of the impressive work you've done. I don't suppose you've managed to get anything together for a release? I would be very interested in trying it!
Hi there, I am getting close, just working on an issue which I think relates to multi language sites, hopefully I will get chance to look into that problem over the weekend.
Did you try registering on my test site? if so and you would like to test the package install I can drop you an email.
Hi there, thanks for getting back to me so soon. I'd love to give it a test! I've just registered, created a new thread and comment and looks to work flawlessly. Good work!
Great work Huw, I just managed to get it running locally and tested couple of items and what I see so far is working.
Just couple of feedback from initial view.
You seem to be missing master.cshtml file
When initially I have set this up I didn't have smtp configured and there were no errors to indicate something went wrong or no current way to request an email to be resent/forgot password.
Are you planning to add further features to this package?
Master.cshtml ref is meant to be replaced with whatever the master template for your site is.
I am working on a search at the moment and will then probably look at moving the posts into a custom table rather than using umbraco content. Jus a little busy at work currently.
I should mention that the version on my test site has the search and paging which is not in the package currently available. I should hopefully be releasing the update at the weekend all being well.
I'm not sure If I will be continuing with it beyond Umbraco 10 as trying to figure out how to get everything installed in 11 is just driving me nuts and really don't have the free time to try and figure it all out (nuget packages are a PITA), so I will finish the changes I was planning for version 10 and hopefully post an update early next week.
Forum package for Umbraco 8
Hi guys, Is there any stable forum package for Umbraco 8? I see that most Forum packages have not been maintained for a long time. Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
Adrian
Hi Adrian,
Have you found one? I'm looking for one as well :-)
Dave
Hi Adrian and Dave,
I am also looking for exactly that; a forum package that supports Umbraco 8.
Can anyone from the community recommend a good package?
Thank you in advance! 🙂
Tom
There are none that I am aware of, there are a couple of very old ones but they do not work in version 8, not sure if the source is available but I would imagine it would be quite a big rewrite to get it working.
You may be better off looking for a forum that can perhaps use the umbraco membership, or change the umbraco membership to use a forums membership provider and just integrate them that way.
Hi Huw,
Thank you for your input. 🙂
Yes, the older packages have not been updated for ages, so I do not trust them in terms of Umbraco 8 compatibility or future scalability.
I am tempted to resolve the situation by creating a reusable Forum solution based upon the Umbraco Membership foundation.
Tom
If you need a starting point, although this is old and not compatible with v8, I have been able to work out most of what was done using a combination of the files and the package.xml to extrapolate what document types were created for it etc.
I have currently got most of it working to a degree :)
If I get chance to finish the upgrade of it to v8 I will try and repackage it all.
I have almost completed rewriting the Simpily Forum package to work in v8, had to do quite a bit of rework in the backend stuff so need to do a bit more testing, but should be finished in a few days hopefully.
Very interesting - I am looking forward to seeing the finalized 'version 1.0'. 🙂
If anyone wants to see it in action, I have a test site up at Forum for Umbraco
You should be able to register to make posts. I am currently testing the package install so should be able to release it soon.
Any comments/observations welcome.
I tried to register, but got password validation error.
This is looking good, I was about to start having to build a forum soon, just wondering if you are willing to share yet?
Hi there,
Please excuse the out of the blue reply to this thread, but I was looking for a forum plugin for Umbraco 8 and came across your posts showing some of the impressive work you've done. I don't suppose you've managed to get anything together for a release? I would be very interested in trying it!
Many Thanks,
Andy
Hi there, I am getting close, just working on an issue which I think relates to multi language sites, hopefully I will get chance to look into that problem over the weekend.
Did you try registering on my test site? if so and you would like to test the package install I can drop you an email.
Hi there, thanks for getting back to me so soon. I'd love to give it a test! I've just registered, created a new thread and comment and looks to work flawlessly. Good work!
Thanks for giving it a try, I will drop you an email later today/tomorrow (bit swamped at work today, typical Friday :D )
Ah that's great thanks, honestly take your time! 🙂
Have a great weekend!
try a longer password, I think the only restriction is length which is 10 by default in Umbraco
ok, worked with longer password.
did you receive the validation email after registering?
I had the same experience
What experience would that be?
Just ironing out a couple of small issues so hopefully will put a release together soon.
Package now posted
https://our.umbraco.com/packages/collaboration/mediawizards-forum/
Hi Huw,
it looks like the repo is private, any chance you make it public to have a looksy?
Thanks!
Done, sorry about that I thought I had already made it public :)
Thanks!
Great work Huw, I just managed to get it running locally and tested couple of items and what I see so far is working.
Just couple of feedback from initial view. You seem to be missing master.cshtml file When initially I have set this up I didn't have smtp configured and there were no errors to indicate something went wrong or no current way to request an email to be resent/forgot password.
Are you planning to add further features to this package?
Some instructions needed :)
Master.cshtml ref is meant to be replaced with whatever the master template for your site is.
I am working on a search at the moment and will then probably look at moving the posts into a custom table rather than using umbraco content. Jus a little busy at work currently.
I tried to register, but I did not receive the email to verify my email address.
Thanks Huw!
-Mike
I'll take a look later, I was making some changes to my test site last week so could have broken something :)
Hi Mike,
I manually approved your registration. There was an issue with my mail settings so the email didn't get sent.
I should probably add a resend email option :)
I should mention that the version on my test site has the search and paging which is not in the package currently available. I should hopefully be releasing the update at the weekend all being well.
I didn't receive the email to verify my email address. Thanks!
Hi Aleatha,
it seems like the package uses the standard SMTP settings from the web.config.
Have you changed the config so that it is valid?
If you're working locally you can use Smtp4Dev to test.
The email was sent successfully and according to my mail server logs it was delivered ok so you may want to check any spam/junk folders you have.
Email is setup correctly and the email was sent and delivered by the mail server
Hi Huw, Do you have any plans to make it work with V9? thanks, Tom
Hi Tom,
I am looking at it yes, although it may be some time as work fairly busy, but have made a start.
Hi Huw
I suppose the next question is, have you done any work on this to bring it up to Umbraco 10? thanks, Steve
Yes, check the new umbraca market place and search for mediawiz but if you wait a couple of days I will be posting an update
Excellent Huw. Thank you!
It may be longer than a couple of days before next update as trying to get it to work with v11 but my package migration is throwing an error in 11
No worries - not urgent. I had a client feature request for some time in the future. Thanks for your help.
I'm not sure If I will be continuing with it beyond Umbraco 10 as trying to figure out how to get everything installed in 11 is just driving me nuts and really don't have the free time to try and figure it all out (nuget packages are a PITA), so I will finish the changes I was planning for version 10 and hopefully post an update early next week.
Just posted a new nugget package which should work for both Umbraco 10 and 11
is working on a reply...