=== BurnZone Forums & Commenting === Contributors: BurnZone Tags: comments, commenting system, community, commenting platform, forums, forum system, q&a Requires at least: 3.0.5 Tested up to: 4.3.1 Stable tag: 1.0.3 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Upgrade your site with this BurnZone Forums & Commenting plugin. We replace standard WP Commenting & allow Forum installation on any page. == Description == BurnZone Forums & Commenting is a turn key community platform that brings together commenting & forums under one roof. We also include industry first community features designed to quantify and promote positive contributions. = Current features for Both Forums & Comments: = * Real Time - Conversations happen live. * Rich Media - Insert Images, Videos, & Social media directly into your posts. * Challenges - Any comment can be challenged by a commenter with a differing opinion. Challenges provide accountability to users that can have controversial opinions and surface what side of a topic a majority of people agree with. * Questions & Answers - We understand that comments are different from questions and we have designed our interface to support each activity separately. * SSO & Social Media login options - Leverage a variety of options to allow your community to login and create an identitiy. * Votes, likes & dislikes - Comments and answers can be liked and disliked. In challenges vote for which side of the topic you agree with. * User profiles - Every person commenting on your website will get a profile where the comments and points are stored. * Sharing - Users can share BurnZone content to Twitter and Facebook or share directly to friends via email. * Competitions - Drive engagement to your community by rewarding the top contibutors with Prizes and Give-aways for a set period of time. * Moderation - You can moderate users and content through the "BurnZone Moderator" area in your dashboard. * Language Support - We have just launched support for 10 languages. = Support & Documentation: = Reach out to us and get help through our site: http://help.theburn-zone.com/. During USA business hours we will try to respond immediately to your questions. == Installation == = Basic Outline = 1. Access the plug-in either by Signing up at: http://www.theburn-zone.com/signup or searching for BurnZone in the Plug-in Directory. 2. Upload the plugin to your website either directly via the WordPress plugin directory or via FTP, copying the plugin folder to "/wp-content/plugins/". 3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress. 4. Register or sign-in via the Wordpress Admin or the BurnZone website. 5. Add your site in the admin section on the website. (the fields should pre-populate). 6. Complete the details in the BurnZone settings and you're done! * To Enable Forums visit the tab and create a Page in Wordpress where you can add the forum install script. * To be able to use Single Sign On your site check the box on the SSO Tab and specify and image URL for the login icon. More details can be found here: * Commenting -> http://help.theburn-zone.com/customer/portal/articles/1009471-how-to-install-the-platform-on-wordpress- * Forums -> http://help.theburn-zone.com/customer/portal/articles/1527370-how-to-install-forums == Frequently Asked Questions == Visit our support community -> http://help.theburn-zone.com/ == Screenshots == 1. Propose a wager to specific users or the community and risk winning or losing points through our "Yolo" feature. 2. Our comment system enables users to call-out and challenge comments with which they disagree, creating a competitive sub-discussion within regular comments. 3. Ask questions to the community and get credit for providing the best answer. 4. Earn credibility in your community on our "Leaderboard" for participation and successful comments, challenges and answers to questions. 5. Promote a comment to the top of the thread using points. 6. Ignite a comment to reward a user for outstanding content. Both users get 30 days of premium features. 7. The light theme. 8. The dark theme. == Changelog == = 1.0.3 = * Updated screenshots. = 1.0.2 = * Fixed SSO login. = 1.0.1 = * Whitelisted element attributes used by BurnZone. Necessary for kses. = 1.0 = * First stable release. = 0.10 = * Added content discovery widget. = 0.9.5 = * Fixed undefined variable bug. = 0.9.4 = * Added option to disable comments in case people want to use only the forums. This option can be found on the settings page, after clicking 'Advanced'. * The comments are closed for the forum page created during the plugin activation. = 0.9.3 = * Fixed a bug that made the plugin incompatible with PHP versions before 5.3. = 0.9.2 = * Added zero-conf plugin activation. = 0.9.1 = * Fixed link to the setting page. = 0.9.0 = * Redesign settings page. It is now easier to configure the plugin. = 0.8.6 = * Removed forum url option. We automatically detect the forum page and skip displaying comments. = 0.8.5 = * Changed plugin description. = 0.8.4 = * Fixed a bug with accessing the settings page. = 0.8.3 = * Fixed a bug with comment migration from Wordpress to BurnZone. = 0.8.2 = * Added support for BurnZone forum integration. Users can select one page to embed their forums into and the plugin will not add comments to that page. = 0.8.1 = * Fixed a major bug caused by extra whitespace at the end of some files. = 0.8.0 = * Added support for migrating Wordpress comments into BurnZone. = 0.4.5 = * Fixed some minor issues. = 0.4.4 = * Can configure the SSO key field on the Settings page. * Other minor fixes. = 0.4.3 = * Added support for Wordpress 3 multisite. = 0.4.2 = * Not showing the comments when they are closed except when the plugin is configured to do so. = 0.4.1 = * Support for multi-page posts. = 0.4.0 = * Updated urls to JavaScript files. You are strongly advised to upgrade to this version. = 0.3.5 = * Changed links to js files. = 0.3.4 = * Added action link to the settings page. = 0.3.3 = * Fixed bug: widgets could not be moved in the admin area. = 0.3.2 = * Corrected a link to our site. * Minor changes to description texts. = 0.3.1 = * Improved the settings page user experience. * Added a nice timepicker addon on the settings page. * Added a help note on the settings page. * BurnZone Commenting is compatible with the latest WordPress version (3.5.2). We also recently improved the interface of our comment system. = 0.3 = * Can select for what post types to enable BurnZone (e.g. posts, pages). * Can select when to enable BurnZone: * For all posts * When the comments are 'closed' * For all posts created since a particular date = 0.2 = * Pre 0.3 version, for beta partners and downloadable from our site only. It contains most of the things in 0.3. = 0.1.1 = * Fixed urls to Burnzone = 0.1 = * Beta release == Upgrade Notice == = 0.4.3 = If you activate multisite and there are already BurnZone conversations created for your site, then those conversations will not show up. They will be replaced by new ones. In this case, contact us for support and we will migrate your conversations. = 0.4.0 = Users are strongly advised to upgrade to this version. = 0.3.1 = Improved the plugin settings page. = 0.3 = There are no known issues. = 0.1 = This is currently the only plugin version.