Engage and empower your community
Build and grow your community with our scalable and customizable WordPress forum plugin.
Mingle Forums & Discussion Board
Successful communities start here
We help brands of all sizes increase customer loyalty, reduce support costs and drive sales.
Engage customers
Customers help themselves by asking questions and finding answers.
Nurture employees
A modern approach to company-wide collaboration.
Empower fans
Connect and reward a loyal following.
Elevate brand identity
Mirror your company’s look and feel into the community.
Micro Communities
Segment your community and let your members niche down.
Blogs and News
Writing your community can engage with.
Resource Community
Share information, files, and articles relevant to your niche.
Keep it simple
Lightweight, solid, secure, quick to set up, and easy to use.
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Mingle Forums & Discussion Board
Have you been looking for a forum plugin for WordPress that just works?
Then look no further! Mingle Forums & Discussion Board has been modified to be lightweight, solid, secure, quick to set up, and easy to use.
The mission of Mingle Forums & Discussion Board is, to keep it simple. There are a handful of forum plugins for WordPress available, but they’re either buggy, difficult to install, or so bloated with features and settings that it’s a nightmare setting them up. Don’t do that to yourself!
You can be up and running with Mingle Forums & Discussion Board fully installed and configured in as little as 5 minutes!
Features
- WordPress 6.4+ ready
- ClassicPress 1.7+ ready
- PHP 8.3+ ready
- SEO-friendly URLs
- Media embed into forum posts (off-site images, YouTube)
- Categories and forums
- Sticky (pinned) topics
- Move, edit, remove and close topics
- Integrates with most themes
Why run a forum on your WordPress site?
A discussion board turns a one-way website into a two-way community. Instead of answering the same questions over email, you let members ask and answer each other, building a searchable archive of knowledge that keeps working for you long after each thread is posted. Mingle Forums & Discussion Board brings that capability to WordPress without the bloat: it installs as a regular plugin, creates the pages it needs, and stays out of your way so you can focus on the conversation rather than the configuration.
Because everything lives inside your own WordPress install, you keep full control of your data, your branding, and your members – no third-party platform, no monthly fees, and no ads. The forum inherits your theme’s look and feel, so it feels like a natural part of your site rather than a bolt-on.
How to get started
- Install and activate Mingle Forums & Discussion Board like any other WordPress plugin.
- Create your first category and forum from the admin screen.
- Add the forum to a page so members can find it.
- Set who can post, then invite your community to start the first topic.
Most sites are fully set up in around five minutes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Mingle Forums free?
Yes. Mingle Forums & Discussion Board is free and the source code is available on GitHub.
Does it work with my theme?
It integrates with most themes and mirrors your site’s look and feel, so the forum blends in rather than standing out.
What WordPress and PHP versions are supported?
It is ready for WordPress 6.4+, ClassicPress 1.7+, and PHP 8.3+, and uses SEO-friendly URLs out of the box.
Can I moderate topics?
Yes. You can move, edit, remove, close, and pin (sticky) topics, and organise everything into categories and forums.