DIR Return Create A Forum - Home
---------------------------------------------------------
Create A Forum - Support Forums
HTML https://support.createaforum.com
---------------------------------------------------------
*****************************************************
DIR Return to: Announcements
*****************************************************
#Post#: 27333--------------------------------------------------
Your forum now has a built-in AI (MCP) server, and you can pay
for upgrades by card with Stripe
DIR By: CreateAForum
Date: September 11, 2026, 7:18 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Two big updates: a built-in AI (MCP) server for every forum, and
Stripe card payments for upgrades
Create A Forum has two announcements today. One is about running
your forum with an AI assistant, and the other is about how you
pay for upgrades.
1. Every forum now has its own MCP server
Every Create A Forum forum now includes a built-in MCP server.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard that AI
assistants use to connect to outside tools. Connect Claude,
Cursor or any assistant
that supports remote MCP servers, and you can manage your
community by talking to it. The assistant reads your reports,
searches your members, posts as you and changes your settings,
using the same
permissions and leaving the same audit trail as the admin
panel.
Things you can ask it:
- Summarize the open reports, group them by the member being
reported, and close the ones that are just disagreements.
- Find accounts registered in the last two days with zero posts
from the same IP range, and ban the spammers.
- How did this week compare to the last four? Which boards are
quiet?
- Post a pinned announcement in General about the new rules, in
a friendly tone, and lock it.
- Approve the pending members who filled in a real profile and
reject the rest.
- Turn on guest access, set registration to admin approval, and
show me what changed.
What it can do (36 tools in total):
- Moderation: read the reported-post queue with reporter
comments, the approval queue and the watched-member list. Close
or ignore reports, approve held posts, remove posts.
- Members: search by name, email, IP, join date, post count or
status. View full profiles, pending registrations and current
bans. Approve or reject registrations, change groups, ban and
unban,
delete accounts.
- Content: read your board structure, recent topics and full
topics as plain text so it can summarize discussions. Create
topics and replies as you, lock, pin or move topics, create,
edit and delete
boards.
- Forum: totals, daily activity for any period with the previous
period for comparison, and every setting you can edit in the
admin panel. Change settings and recount statistics.
- Logs: your admin and moderation logs, including everything the
assistant itself did.
Built with guardrails:
- It runs as you. Every action uses your account and your
forum's own permission system.
- Everything is logged. Writes and deletions land in your admin
log with the target and the acting admin.
- It only sees what you can see: your admin panel data and
settings, never passwords, platform internals or server details.
- Administrator accounts cannot be banned, deleted or demoted
through the assistant.
- Tools that delete things are flagged so assistants confirm
with you before acting.
- You stay in control: rotate or revoke the key in one click,
and rate limits keep runaway automations in check.
How to set it up (takes about two minutes):
- In your forum go to Admin -> Configuration -> MCP / AI Access
and click Generate. The key is shown once and works as your
administrator account, so treat it like a password.
- Add your forum to your assistant. For Claude Desktop or
claude.ai, add a custom connector using your forum's MCP
address. For Claude Code it is one command:
--- Code ---
claude mcp add --transport http myforum
HTML https://yourforum.createaforum.com/mcp.php
--header "X-Api-Key:
YOUR_KEY"
--- End Code ---
Clients that cannot send headers can use
HTML https://yourforum.createaforum.com/mcp.php?api_key=YOUR_KEY<br
/>instead. Opening your forum's mcp.php address in a browser
shows
copy-and-paste instructions for each client.[/li]
- Ask it something. Start with "what can you do on my forum?" or
go straight to a task.
It works with Claude Desktop, claude.ai, Claude Code, Cursor,
and any client that supports remote MCP servers over HTTP. It is
available on every forum, including free ones. Full details and
a FAQ:
HTML https://www.createaforum.com/mcp-server.php
HTML https://www.createaforum.com/mcp-server.php
2. Pay for upgrades by credit or debit card with Stripe
Until now, upgrades could only be bought through PayPal. Many
of you asked for another option, so we now also accept credit
and debit cards through Stripe.
- Every plan and upgrade is available both ways: the Unlimited
Ad Free and Ultimate plans (monthly or yearly), storage
upgrades, feature add-ons such as chat, Downloads Pro,
newsletter, custom smileys,
private board and footer branding removal, language packs,
featured listings and custom domain SSL.
- Go to
HTML https://yourforum.createaforum.com/upgrades.php
and
click "Pay by card with Stripe", or go straight to
HTML https://yourforum.createaforum.com/stripeupgrades.php.
Your card
details are
entered on Stripe's secure checkout page and never touch our
servers.
- Upgrades bought through Stripe are applied to your forum
automatically, the same as PayPal.
- New forums can choose PayPal or Stripe on the plan page right
after signup.
#Post#: 27334--------------------------------------------------
Re: Your forum now has a built-in AI (MCP) server, and you can
pay for upgrades by card with Stripe
DIR By: xTreme
Date: September 12, 2026, 2:23 am
---------------------------------------------------------
I started testing the mcp feature and it is truly amazing. I
will be testing different areas over the next few days but so
far it is working flawlessly.
#Post#: 27335--------------------------------------------------
Re: Your forum now has a built-in AI (MCP) server, and you can
pay for upgrades by card with Stripe
DIR By: CreateAForum
Date: September 12, 2026, 11:25 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Added 15 more tools to the MCP Server such as
- forum: list_online, get_top_stats
- content: search_posts, edit_post, delete_topic,
create_category / update_category / delete_category
- moderation: add_report_note (writes the same reportc row the
moderation center does), warn_member (mirrors the Issue Warning
page, gated on warning_settings)
- members: list_membergroups, get_member_ips, send_pm
- maintenance: new area holding list_scheduled_tasks,
run_scheduled_task (resolves scheduled_<task>() like the Run Now
button) and the existing recount_stats
*****************************************************
Page 1 of 1