Thursday, October 2, 2008

Wordpress Forum Message Board Plugin


If you have a couple of niche sites that you have converted to the BANS Wordpress templates, there might be time when you want to build a community with a forum and message board. I have been playing with a few forum Wordpress plugins for a while and found that Simple Press Forum plugin is the best one out there to fit my needs. It installs very easily and has a ton of features as well. Below is a list of features from the site:

* Supports WordPress version 2.04 to the latest 2.5.1
* Fully integrated with WordPress user registrations and logins
* Installs on WordPress MU
* Creates ‘pretty/seo friendly’ permalinks
* Underpinned by a powerful user and permission system
* Can create private forums
* Forums can be ‘Members Only’ or can allow for Guests
* Private Messaging system
* Admins can allow for post moderation (approval)
* Build in Search tool
* Fully customisable skins and icons
* Most rendering functions are ‘pluggable’
* Member Profile updating and can change own passwords
* Supports Page Password
* Choice of Editors (TinyMCE or QuickTag)
* Options Signatures, Signature Image, Avatars, and Rankings
* A variery of Template Tags - recent posts etc
* Progammable Hooks for user extension
* Optional Spam Prevention tools
* Optional Cookies to track Guests and Members
* Fully Localised for language support
* Optional and various RSS feeds and email subscription to topics
* Various display options to suit your needs and theme
* An Admin toolset to perform many tasks from within the forum itself
* Blog Posts and Forum Topics can be linked
* Support for the Democracy Polls plugin
* Support for the Gravatars 2 plugin
* Forum Statistics - incuding who is online
* Complete uninstall/removal option

Running a great forum is not easy and I would not go installing this on each and every site you own. Try it on one you can spend the most time on and understand how to manage a forum properly while at the same time how to moderate it as well. I run and moderate a few forums myself and it can become a job the more members you get.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That looks fantastic and is exactly what I have been looking for. I have a very active niche that I feel will do great with a forum attached. Great find, Dave!

macewan on October 2, 2008 at 2:20 PM said...

I could use this with deadmule.com for those literary folks interested in Southern discussion. They'd love it.

Anonymous said...

Great find, thanks for this.

Sage on March 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM said...

has this plugin been updated for wordpress 2.7?

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