What's New

We automatically make dozens of small improvements to your forum every day. Listed below are some of the larger improvements that have been implemented recently.

• Promote users based on their reputation score. - Aug 10, 2025
• Specify a message template for new topics in a category. - July 11, 2025
• Set the default followed content email frequency. - April 23, 2025
• Content in post attachments and photos is now searchable for new posts. - Jan 30, 2025
• When composing a new topic, AI is used to guess the category. - Dec 10, 2024
• View the revision history of an edited post. - Nov 19, 2024
• Specify allowed email domains that users must use to sign up. - Oct 11, 2024
• Reorder pinned topics by dragging and dropping them. - July 17, 2024
• Specify which user groups can view certain folders. - July 2, 2024
• Search for a destination topic by keyword when moving a post. - May 23, 2024
• Press the Shift and question mark key together to see new keyboard shortcuts that the forum supports. - May 23, 2024
• View associated search results when clicking Topic Views or Topic Replies pie charts in forum analytics. - Feb 5, 2024
• Lazy load post images to improve topic load time. - Jan 17, 2024
• Specifying keywords is no longer mandatory when performing a search. - Dec 13, 2023
Undelete categories - Dec 9, 2023
• Customize your forum's text - May 14, 2023
• A new "Files" section has been added to the forum's navigation menu, and you can customize user group upload and download permissions. - April 22, 2023
• Receive notifications only for new topics in a specific category, so you can stay informed without getting overwhelmed. Additionally, set the default notification settings so that new users receive notifications for all new topics. - April 19, 2023
• Web notifications for post likes. - April 9, 2023
• Our iOS app is now available in the App Store. - March 17, 2023
• To prevent accidental loss of your message or to allow you to complete it later, a draft of your message is automatically saved. - March 11, 2023
• Insert images into content editors in the admin area, and drag/drop or copy/paste images into all editors. - March 4, 2023
• Attach files to emails sent from the Users -> Email section. - Jan 20, 2023
• Our mobile app for Android is now available in the Google Play store. - Jan 17, 2023
• Change the ownership of a post. - Jan 16, 2023
• Specify a description for your forum that will help define how your forum appears in search engines. - Jan 6, 2023
• Create new topics in a category via email. - Dec 28, 2022
• Add custom pages. - Dec 23, 2022
• Report posts as off-topic, inappropriate, spam, or other. - Nov 10, 2022
• Unified search that also supports searching names, usernames, and tags. - Sept 7, 2022
• We've launched a new theme called Activity Feed. Similar to social media sites, this theme features an activity feed of topics with pictures, text, and video to increase engagement. - Sept 7, 2022
• A pageview.created webhook event has been added. - Sept 1, 2022
• Added Pub/Sub support. Pub/Sub allows you to ingest events for streaming into BigQuery, data lakes or operational databases. - August 23, 2022
• There are new notification.created and email.created webhook events. - August 11, 2022
• An API endpoint has been added which lists page views that the forum has received. - August 1, 2022
• Automatically create a forum topic for discussion when a new page or blog post is published in WordPress using our plugin. Replies from the forum discussion can be embedded in the WordPress blog post or page. - July 22, 2022
• Webhook events have been added for when a user likes or dislikes (votes on) a post or does a keyword search. - July 22, 2022
• We've created a user guide. - June 2, 2022
• Single sign on (SSO) with Google, Twitter, GitHub, Microsoft, and custom OAuth methods - March 14, 2022
• View who disliked a post. - Aug 31, 2021
• The Profanity Filter has been changed to Censored Words and now includes the ability to reject or require approval of posts containing censored words and use an asterisk for wildcard matching. - Aug 21, 2021
• User group, moderator, and tags API endpoints have been added. - Jul 19, 2021
• Tag topics - Feb 18, 2021
• Forum users can now turn on two-factor authentication. Users in a user group can be required to use two-factor authentication. - Jan 25, 2020
• Bulgarian and Greek languages have been added. - Oct 20, 2020
• Admins can now view users' conversations. - Sep 11, 2020
• More SEO-friendly category addresses - Sep 7, 2020
• Link previews and media embedding - August 9, 2020
• Dark mode for the Playtime theme - July 21, 2020
• Sitemaps - July 21, 2020
• Slovenian language support - July 7, 2020
• Forum emails are now localized to the user's language. For cases where the user's language isn't known yet, you can set the default language for emails in the Settings -> Notifications section. - June 5, 2020
• There's a new theme called Lights Out. - April 28, 2020
• Enable two-factor authentication on your Website Toolbox account. - Jan 26, 2020
• Specify a footer that appears in all emails. - Jan 18, 2020
• Get push notifications in your browser to find out what's going on when you're not on the forum. - Dec 20, 2019
• Allow users to sign up or log in to your forum with LinkedIn. - Dec 13, 2019
• The user information card now appears upon clicking a username or avatar on touch devices. Once it appears on a touch device, clicking the username or avatar again or clicking the username/avatar in the information card will allow the user to visit the user's profile. - Nov 3, 2019
• Specify a pre-footer that appears above the forum footer. - Nov 3, 2019
• Inappropriate content filter. Automatically detect and reject or require approval of posts containing toxicity, insults, profanity, identity attacks, flirtatious or sexually explicit content, or threats using machine learning. - Oct 20, 2019
• Bulk category upload - Oct 20, 2019
• Remove the message from post notification emails. - Oct 13, 2019
• Choose to approve all posts with links, a user's first 5 posts that also contain links, or a user's first post that also contains a link. - Oct 10, 2019
• Czech language support. - Oct 4, 2019
• Swedish language support - Aug 23, 2019
• You'll now be notified via email if a user mentions you in a post. - Aug 20, 2019
• If your advertising network is asking for it, you can now update your ads.txt file in the Appearance -> Ads section. - Aug 16, 2019
• There's a new theme called Minimal. - August 2, 2019
• A crown icon now appears toward the bottom-right of administrator avatars and a shield icon appears toward the bottom-right of moderator icons. These icons help users quickly identify the people who help oversee the forum or certain categories. - June 26, 2019
• View monthly active users, active members, and active guests in the Statistics section. - June 7, 2019
• Type @ followed by a user's username to mention them in a post. Users will be notified that they were mentioned in the post. - May 17, 2019
• We've added automatic language localization for Russian speaking users. Please contact us to localize your forum to a different language. - December 24, 2018
• Big upgrades to the theme editor: Choose from a gallery of header images, customize the fonts, and specify custom CSS and a welcome message! - December 10, 2018
• We've added automatic language localization for Korean speaking users. Please contact us to localize your forum to a different language. - November 28, 2018
• Prevent signups from specific countries or only allow signups from specific countries. You can contact us to make the change. - Nov 13, 2018
• Reply to topics via email. - Oct 21, 2018
• Reply to private message conversations via email. - Sept 27, 2018
• Choose to receive followed content daily or weekly instead of only immediately. - Sept 4, 2018
• Upload your emojis instead of specifying the URL. - August 29, 2018
• You can now ban IP address ranges. - August 26, 2018
• The online users list now appears on the new themes and the Invisible option has been renamed to Offline. - August 2, 2018
• We've added automatic language localization for French, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic speaking users. Please contact us to localize your forum to a different language. - July 27, 2018
• When a forum or category is password protected and a logged in user enters that password successfully, the user will not need to enter the password again on any device or browser unless the administrator changes the password. - June 20, 2018
• Added new webhooks. - June 10, 2018
• We've launched a new API. - May 22, 2018
• There's a new theme called Playtime. - May 22, 2018
• In the new themes, when a user has specified their name in their profile and not marked it as private, it will now be shown throughout the forum next to their username. You can contact us to enable it. - May 4, 2018
• We have added single sign on support for Wix, Weebly, Shopify, Kajabi, and many other platforms. - May 4, 2018
• Videos can now be streamed inline. - April 11, 2018
• We've added automatic language localization for Dutch and Norwegian speaking users. Please contact us to localize your forum to a different language. - April 1, 2018
• We've added automatic language localization for German speaking users. Please contact us to localize your forum to a different language. - March 22, 2018
• The theme editor for new themes has been updated with a new design, device selector, media library, ability to edit the forum title, ability to upload a favicon, and color palletes. - February 13, 2018
• There's a new theme called Classic. - February 8, 2018
• We've added automatic language localization for Spanish speaking users. Please contact us to localize your forum to a different language. - January 2, 2018
• You can now create your own home page for the forum. You can design it with your own styled text, images, videos, custom HTML code, or whatever you would like. - October 11, 2017
• Use the Add Users option in the Manage drop down menu on the Users -> Group Permissions page to easily add a user to a user group. - September 27, 2017
• All pages now have a printer-friendly version. Use the print button in your browser without sacrificing your ink! - August 30, 2017
• We've added Webhooks. - August 11, 2017
• Users can now automatically follow all new topics, allowing them to receive email notifications for all new posts on the forum. They can then unfollow individual categories or topics to tune what they receive email for. The notification email has also been redesigned. Additionally, moderators and administrators will now automatically be notified via email when there is a pending post awaiting their review. - August 10, 2017
• Daily line graph statistics for dozens of metrics and pie charts for insight into member and topic activity have been added to the Statistics section of the admin area. - August 9, 2017
• You can now specify 3 different Paid Access subscription plans instead of just 2, allowing you to give users the option of paying a fee one time, monthly, or annually. - July 22, 2017
• When declining a user, you can now specify a reason why the user was declined. That message will be included in the email that is sent to the user telling them that their signup was declined. - July 1, 2017
• Member titles and user group promotions are now applied in real-time. Previously they were applied hourly. - March 14, 2017
• You can now easily make your forum public, but hidden to search engines by selecting Hidden for the Settings -> Security -> Privacy option. - March 8, 2017
• Full support for emojis from your phone, tablet, or computer keyboard anywhere on the forum. - February 10, 2017
• Upload a background image and header image using the theme customizer on any of the new themes. - January 17, 2017
• When a user follows a topic, email notifications are now sent for all posts in the topic instead of just sending one notification until the user visits the topic again. - January 11, 2017
• Text formatting in messages is now enabled on mobie and tablet devices - December 29, 2016
• Top Posters and Most Reputed rankings have been added to the members list of new themes - August 4, 2016
• Custom domain names now support HTTPS for free if the DNS CNAME is changed to custom.websitetoolbox.com. - June 5, 2016
• Use content syndication in JSON format. - April 20, 2016
• Edit post time limit. To preserve the integrity of the discussion, posts older than 2 months can't be edited unless the user is a moderator or administrator. - March 10, 2016
• Private message conversations. Private messages now appear as conversations so you can easily look back at the history of the discussion. The whole page feels like one continuous chat. You can even have a private message conversation among a group of people. - March 9, 2016
• Removal of nested quotes. We've received feedback that the nested quotes are too difficult to read when many quotes are nested within each other. Therefore, we've removed this default behavior. We're planning to announce a private message conversation feature soon which will make it much easier to follow the history of a private message discussion betwene two or more people. - March 1, 2016

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