Forum Pro

Forum Pro is a complete, self-hosted discussion platform that runs inside your Grav site. It is not an iframe, not a hosted widget and not a subscription. Forum pages are ordinary Grav pages: they inherit your theme, live at any route you choose, are indexed by search engines, and every post is stored in a database you own.

Requirements

Several optional plugins each unlock more:

None of these are required. Forum Pro degrades cleanly when they are absent: without sync you get a plain server-rendered forum, without codesh code blocks render unhighlighted, and so on.

What's in the box

• Discussions with sections, categories, topics, threaded replies, Markdown with @mentions and quotes, attachments, reactions, polls, tags, accepted answers, bookmarks and full revision history.
• A member system of its own, with registration, email verification, password reset, profiles, avatars, ranks, badges, groups, titles and a member directory. Grav accounts link in automatically.
• Moderation through scoped moderator roles, a review queue on the forum itself, a bulk queue in the admin, per-category premoderation, member reports, bans with appeals and content disposition, an audit log and a daily digest.
• Spam defense in three independent stages (heuristics, an optional self-hosted ML classifier, an optional hourly AI review) plus provisional-account restrictions and an invisible captcha.
• Notifications through an in-app bell with live toasts, watch levels per topic and per forum, and email that mirrors the bell with immediate, daily or weekly delivery.
• Private messages between members, one-to-one or in groups, with archiving, blocking, bulk cleanup and reporting.
• Search over published posts, permission-filtered, using either a built-in engine or YetiSearch Pro.
• Live updates through the sync plugin, with Mercure push or automatic polling fallback.
• Article comments that turn any Grav page into a commentable article backed by a real forum topic.
• A Discourse importer that brings members (with working passwords), content, history and files across in one command.

Where to start

1. Installation gets the forum running, picks a database, and mounts it at the route you want.
2. Configuration is the complete reference for every config block.
3. Administration walks through the Forum area in Admin Next.

If you are moving an existing community across, read Migrating from Discourse before you do anything else. The importer is idempotent, but planning the cutover is easier before you start than after.