Hi, I'm wanting to add a forum to my Wordpress site (its not up yet), and am wondering what is the best way to do this. I've found a few plugins, is there a really good one for forums on wordpress? I've head that vBulletin is really good, but I don't know how well it would integrate with wordpress? Thanks in advance for any help.
Just set a forum whichever you like in a separate folder and then have a link going from wordpress to the forum. Make changes in the theme to make things alike, and then you are done.
There's several forum that can integrated with wordpress via plugins or bridges (their words not mine). Problem is, why would you want to do it? Why not install it separately like flamer said.
You're right, it is. Even though bbpress is made by the same folks, you basically have to set it up as a bridge between the sites. We use Simple Press on our installs. It's an actual plugin: http://simplepressforum.com/