Has anyone on this forum attempted to run a forum with a blog...Is this a smart idea or am I just dreaming? Is it possible to have a wordpress blog coexist with a forum? Is this smart?
What would the point be? You could simply have your forum reside on myblog.com/forums - there's no real need to integrate the logins, since Wordpress doesn't have user logins anyway...except for guest writers, I guess.
I think there is a bridge for phpBB, but bridges are to be used at your discretion - they almost always have problems, especially down the line as new versions of WP are released
Ya I dont think I am goign to do it...its not worth the risks, but I think I will be putting a forum on my site for a place for users to tell me what movies they want to see on the site... What do you think? DO you Think its smart that i create a forum with very little content...i mean it would probably be like 2 Folders
It would be worth doing it, for sure...since it won't be big, you might as well go with a free forum like SMF...it has a lot of options and tons of great skins.
My only question is it going to be hard to keep up with the coding and everything? I mean are there sufficient sites out there to help me get through the addons and everything that everyone does once their forum starts getting popular?
One simple message board that I have used and will be using again and again is called MBoard. The things I like about this are: - No MySQL database needed. - Perfect if you don't want a big empty forum. - Very customisable. http://www.phpjunkyard.com/php-message-board.php
WP team has solved this problem. They have created bbPress. It is full customizable and it integrates the accounts of the blog and the forum. I can help you with this. What do you think?
I do not think it's smart, at least in case your blog hasn't got much traffic.. Nothing else works so badly for potential forum guests as an empty forum And since you got a blog, maybe a request page with comment enabled would do the trick? Anyway, if you choose the forum, I don't think that you need to integrate it with the blog, just place it in a subdomain like it already was suggested
I personally don't like bbPress at all. It is way too basic for my taste, but that's just my opinion. charlietree: SMF has a really good support forum. Using SMF is relatively easy, although some community mods can be a pain to install...but overall, it's the best free forum in my opinion. phpBB gets targeted by hackers way too much.