Recommended Wordpress plugin for forums?

11 years ago

I'd personally never work with anything that wasn't v_bulletin. I don't think that the current wordpress plugins out there are robust enough to handle the potential idea of having a lot of users.

If you're really stuck on the idea though here,
WordPress › WP Forum Server « WordPress Plugins
That's an easy to use plugin with the features of what you should need.

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oliviacis 11 years ago

Check this out: makeuseof.com/tag/3-wordpress-forum-plugins/
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1Goal

11 years ago

Originally Posted by bhmseoservices

I'd personally never work with anything that wasn't v_bulletin. I don't think that the current wordpress plugins out there are robust enough to handle the potential idea of having a lot of users.

If you're really stuck on the idea though here,
WordPress › WP Forum Server « WordPress Plugins
That's an easy to use plugin with the features of what you should need.

Thanks bhmseoservices! When you say a lot of users, what does that look like number wise you think?

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WPcrew

11 years ago

BBpress is the only one I know for this purpose, there are even themes that are having predefined styles for it (let's say little more customized bbpress then default), but I never used it, and tested it with themes. Anyway, it's sure more lightweight solution if you don't need to much options for forums (like you have in vBulletin), you can go with bbpress.

It's developed by the creators of WordPress.

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onlineblogger2

11 years ago

BBpress is my favorite.

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1Goal

11 years ago

Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions!

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Mkj

11 years ago

Simple

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Simple Press is an extremely powerful forum. I always found it a bit of an overkill on small sites though. Can be a bit slow at times too though I think they have made it to run a lot faster now.

If you don't intend to use wordpress for user login purposes then you are unrestricted with regard to what forum you use - as in my case ( see sig below ). I incorporated the minibb forum into my site as it is extremely fast. Not sure I would recommend minibb forum to anyone though as it lacks a lot of addons and extras, support too come to think of it. Oh well each to their own.

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1Goal

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Mkj

Simple

ress

Simple Press is an extremely powerful forum. I always found it a bit of an overkill on small sites though. Can be a bit slow at times too though I think they have made it to run a lot faster now.

If you don't intend to use wordpress for user login purposes then you are unrestricted with regard to what forum you use - as in my case ( see sig below ). I incorporated the minibb forum into my site as it is extremely fast. Not sure I would recommend minibb forum to anyone though as it lacks a lot of addons and extras, support too come to think of it. Oh well each to their own.

Thanks MKJ! I was thinking SimplePress as well. I don't anticipate more than 400-500 people to be on reg. on the site.

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teguhyuliantos

11 years ago

I think if you want to build forums, its recommended to use theme that special for forums. You can try some platform, such as v bulleting, PHPB, or other platform as you wish.