What would be the best forum to add to my blog

[mistyone]

Hi Folks

I want to add a forum to my new blog 'I Married A Fat Bitch'. I am not very techie so it needs to be simple. What would you recommend?

Cheers
Misty

[Easy Cash]

All about Fashion for large ladies?

Has to be a market in that.

[edpudol1973]

I am little bit confused are you looking for a topic as forum to your blog or you're looking for a forum CMS? If CMS I suggest VB like the one used here at warrior. If you want free PHPBB is fine I guess

[mistyone]

Originally Posted by Easy Cash

All about Fashion for large ladies?

Has to be a market in that.

Hey thanks for replying and for your idea about big ladies fashion

It is actually the website software I mean. The site is wordpress but I don't think wordpress do a forum software and as I am not very techie I wondered what would be recommended to use.

Cheers
Misty

[mistyone]

Originally Posted by edpudol1973

I am little bit confused are you looking for a topic as forum to your blog or you're looking for a forum CMS? If CMS I suggest VB like the one used here at warrior. If you want free PHPBB is fine I guess

Yes that is actually what I meant thank you

VB as I understand it requires you to purchase a licence which at this stage I would prefer not to do so your idea about PHPBB may be what I will need to look at. Being a non-techie person and never installed anything with a database do you know what it requires?

Cheers
Misty

[edpudol1973]

Originally Posted by mistyone

Yes that is actually what I meant thank you

VB as I understand it requires you to purchase a licence which at this stage I would prefer not to do so your idea about PHPBB may be what I will need to look at. Being a non-techie person and never installed anything with a database do you know what it requires?

Cheers
Misty

Installing phpbb is not that hard, it's easy to used and friendly.

[mistyone]

Originally Posted by edpudol1973

Installing phpbb is not that hard, it's easy to used and friendly.

Thanks for your enthusiasm

Cheers
Misty

[jjpmarketing]

phpbb would be an easy install. All you do is create the db. Write down the db name, username, password, etc. and then run the phpbb installer. Then you are done. From there all you have to do is configure the features.

Other than that there is a wordpress plugin for forums. I think it is called wpforums. I don't know if it is any good or not, but it is supposed to put a forum right in your blog, without having the user leave the blog to log into a forum.

[Xeract]

Another free alternative you might want to check out is MyBB. I've used it for a couple of forums, and as long as you don't need a huge amount of plugins it's graet.

[mistyone]

Originally Posted by jjpmarketing

phpbb would be an easy install. All you do is create the db. Write down the db name, username, password, etc. and then run the phpbb installer. Then you are done. From there all you have to do is configure the features.

Other than that there is a wordpress plugin for forums. I think it is called wpforums. I don't know if it is any good or not, but it is supposed to put a forum right in your blog, without having the user leave the blog to log into a forum.

Thank you for your advice. I went over to WP this is all that I have been able to find:
http://thedeadone.net/wp-content/gal...creenshot1.jpg

To have a WP plugin would be great if this works

Cheers
Misty

[mistyone]

Originally Posted by Xeract

Another free alternative you might want to check out is MyBB. I've used it for a couple of forums, and as long as you don't need a huge amount of plugins it's graet.

Thank you for the info. I will check that out as well.

You guys are awsome

Cheers
Misty

[Michael Mayhew]

I recommend Simple Machines Forum (SMF) It's free.
Home of SMF: Free PHP and MySQL forum software

Hundreds of plug-ins.
VERY, very secure

Ive been using it 3 years now without issue.

SMF Themes.
SMF Theme Site
SMF Mods/Plug-Ins
SMF Mod Site

[Alan Petersen]

I like the Simple Forum plugin. You can see it on my blog here:

Private Forum | Niche Podcasting - The Blog

Made for WordPress.

Simple:Press Forum | Stuff at Yellow Swordfish

[Michael Mayhew]

Originally Posted by Alan Petersen

I like the Simple Forum plugin. You can see it on my blog here:

Private Forum | Niche Podcasting - The Blog

Made for WordPress.

Simple:Press Forum | Stuff at Yellow Swordfish

Very cool. Thanks for sharing this!

[jjpmarketing]

I like that plugin. It looks pretty sweet. I will have to test it out.

[SpeedDemon]

Oh, that is cool. I didn't know there was a Wordpress plugin for forums. Thanks for posting that!

[lakshaybehl]

Misty..

What's your name?


You need to look into your cpanel...

got to fantastico de luxe and find forums on the left sidebar...

You can install it in a minute without being techie at all...

Lakshay

[jjpmarketing]

The problem with that approach is most hosts don't keep their scripts up to date. Besides, eventually you may want to use something that is not in your host's fantastico list. So you might as well learn to create a MySQL db now, and install a PHP Web application. It will save you a lot of time and money by learning this.

[mistyone]

Hi Michael, Alan and Lakshay

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my question

I will look at the options you have presented me with.

Lakshay, my name is Viv I am so used to using my username that I don't even think of using my real name! I am with a GoDaddy reseller and there is no cPanel and no fantastico but thank you for the suggestion.

A wordpress plugin would be my preference so I will check out your blog Alan.

As always, the Warriors have come up trumps

Cheers

**VIV**