Finally! The wpDiscuz 7 Beta is here!
Today we’re excited to release wpDiscuz 7 Beta 1 into the wild!
The version 7 has been in development since December 2018. About one year of hard work is ready to be tested. It’s hard to believe it’s been so long since our last major v5 release, but sometimes good things are worth waiting for 😉
wpDiscuz 7 is a revolutionary perspective on the commenting world!
This plugin changes your website discussion experience and provides you with new user engagement features. It’s totally improved with brand new innovative features bringing live to your website.
Today we’re proud to unveil the wpDiscuz 7 Beta 1 release, which includes:
- The design is fully changed
- Three nice and modern comment layouts.
- Inline commenting and feedback. Commenting on post content.
- Live Notification with real-time updating Comment Bubble.
- Improved live commenting. Light and fast based on REST API.
- Social Commenting with new Social login options
- Post Rating. Allows to rate posts directly on rating stars.
- Improved spam protection. Built-in Google reCAPTCHA version 2.
- Comment form rich-editor, comment text formatting and more...
- Image attachment button on comment form rich-editor.
- User mentioning by inserting @nickname in comment content.
- Displays comment editing information. Editor name and the date.
- wpDiscuz Dashboard and Settings pages are fully redesigned.
- Comment statistics, active users and subscriptions statistic in dashboard.
- Option to control comments loading type
- comments loading type: Load with page.
- comments loading type: Initiate AJAX loading after the page is loaded.
- comments loading type: Don't load and display [View Comments] button.
- Option to set default avatar for users and guests separately
- Option to disable wpDiscuz style.css and load Minimal Style for developers
- Option to limit comments per user and post.
- PHP 7.4 compatibility.
- Improved working speed and security.
- Better performance and database optimized database queries.
- About a hundred of big and small bugs are fixed.
Please read the detailed instruction how to install or update wpDiscuz 7 beta version for testing purpose here: https://wpdiscuz.com/community/faq/updating-to-wpdiscuz-7-beta-version/