Wordpress Forum Theme

I have an unattended domain with a wordpress blog in it. I was thinking of turning it into a forum but contemplating on using either phpbb or simple machine.

And just the other day, i've received an email from the original creator of Classipress ( a wordpress classifieds theme) for his new offering, a wordpress forum theme. It is a wordpress theme that can transform your wordpress blog into a forum.

I get hold of a copy and immediately installed in on my site and viola, it is now a discussion board. Though there are wordpress forum plugins available, the ease and simplicity of installation is what makes it better, imho.

I am just amazed with the versatility of wordpress platform that's why I am sharing this and at the same time a shameless plug on my website. (There's no aff link here).

You can see the theme running on my site http://www.waddapak.com/ or visit the theme's site http://thegforums.com/ .

 

classipress is a classified theme and not a forum theme

 

Yes I know as I stated it in my post, I mention it just for reference.

I think you must re-read my original post.

 

It's not bad but it's not free; bbpress is rockin' and completely free, and there's plenty of similar themes.. Just a thought!

 

Wow, I can think of heaps of uses for that plugin.. thanks for that.. your site looks great too..

 

Wow....The site now looks really amazing...
And the best thing is,The urls are still SEO friendly...

I just made a blogpost about this theme in my blo..

 

Thanks for the post and you have an informative blog too.

 

It is not a plugin but actually a wordpress theme.

 

Hi, I am the author of gForums.
I can understand why some people would like to use phpBB or bbPress or any other forum system that is free.
But the price is not just for the theme itself. When you get something for free you don't have immediate support for it.
I have used phpBB, bbPress, Vanilla and vBulletin in some of my sites along the years and they are all great.
But if someone needs good wordpress support and help to set a forum up then there are clearly some advantages to buy the gForums theme.
What ever the end decision might be I encourage everyone to use what ever suits their needs best.

 

Additional features that I could think of are:

Thread bumping
Avatar uploading

 

Also,is there a way to modify the permalinks structure?

like, the thread page url should be like

www.mydomain.com/forums/%category%/%postname%/

(In your demo,its like www.mydomain.com/forums/%postname%/ )

 

Yes, you can use a category in the url structure.
The list of tags to use in a permalink structure are these:
%year%
%monthnum%
%day%
%hour%
%minute%
%second%
%postname%
%post_id%
%category%
%tag%
%author%
List from: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

 

How can i download this theme?

 

This is not a free theme, it's a premium one.
So you have to buy it from http://thegforums.com/

 

Can it flexible as regular forums? Sometime I fell wordpress can't flexible for professional site, am I right?

 

What do you men by flexible. I don't quite understand.
Flexible in design or in script functionality?

 

very nice job. i was thinking about creating a forum theme, too.

 

I have created wordpress theme for personal use. now I will give a try for Forum theme