A good Forum plugin for Wordpress?

AJ Silvers · 11-08-2009, 04:01 PM

Hi Warriors

I need to add a clean and simple forum inside a new WP site.

Any recommendations?

I heard great reviews about Simple Forum at http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/ but the site is down

Any other warrior recommended forums I can put inside a wp site?

Cheers

AJ

chrisgarrett · 11-08-2009, 04:05 PM

Simple Press Forum is the one Stu from Wishlist recommended to me, as a rule I tend to go the expensive and overly complex VBulletin though

http://simplepressforum.com/

Frank Bruno · 11-08-2009, 04:21 PM

I've been using Simplepress open source and it works really well.

One of the features I like about SimplePress is that when you create a new blog post you can also, if you want, have it automatically create a forum post.

If you read the blog post that you just posted in Wordpress you will see a link at the bottom of that post that goes to the auto forum post. If you read the forum post there is a link referencing back to the blog post.

So it cross links as an option to build your forum content and to notify users of the forum what your blogging about.

Frank

Michael Silvester · 11-08-2009, 04:29 PM

Hi Mate,

I use phpBB for my forum and I've had a
script custom made for $50 on rentacoder
to use the logins (username and password)
from wordpress.

That way they can just click over to the
forum without logging in twice.

I am aware of a plugin that makes wordpress
and phpBB work together...but I have not
tried it.

Here is the link
WP-United • Home

Take Care,

Michael Silvester

chrisgarrett · 11-08-2009, 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frank Bruno

So it cross links as an option to build your forum content and to notify users of the forum what your blogging about.

Neat, I didn't realize it did that, what a nice feature

I installed it but have yet to properly have a play with it, I am definitely going to put the effort into investigating it properly now, thanks.

danhughes · 11-08-2009, 04:51 PM

I really like Forum Server from VastHtml

AJ Silvers · 11-08-2009, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frank Bruno

I've been using Simplepress open source and it works really well.

One of the features I like about SimplePress is that when you create a new blog post you can also, if you want, have it automatically create a forum post.

If you read the blog post that you just posted in Wordpress you will see a link at the bottom of that post that goes to the auto forum post. If you read the forum post there is a link referencing back to the blog post.

So it cross links as an option to build your forum content and to notify users of the forum what your blogging about.

Frank

Hi Frank

Thanks for this explanation, I can see some very effective SEO benefits to be gained from this cross linking!

AJ

n7 Studios · 11-08-2009, 05:01 PM

bbPress

Made by the creators of Wordpress.

Has the similar Admin interface + plugin architecture. Can also use Wordpress user data for logins.

rlpruitt · 11-08-2009, 05:16 PM

1 more vote for SimplePress Forum.

Ralph

sbucciarel · 11-08-2009, 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by n7 Studios

bbPress

Made by the creators of Wordpress.

Has the similar Admin interface + plugin architecture. Can also use Wordpress user data for logins.

I'll second bbpress.

chrisgarrett · 11-08-2009, 05:47 PM

bbPress is great, but it can be a pain to work with especially if your wordpress install is a membership site rather than a simple blog, of course YMMV

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