In my Wordpress website development travels, I have often had the need to install and develop forums for myself or for others. In the past I have relied on various open source forum applications and installed them into a sub-domain or a sub-directory. I did this because the forums I found that were tagged as being integrated with Wordpress, were sometimes difficult to modify, and some were just downright buggy. Well, I think that search for the perfect Wordpress forum has ended, and I’m eager to get started with Simple Forum.
I learned of Simple Forum through comments on Justin Tadlock’s Structure theme page by Mr Papa (who helps out on the plugin development). Although I haven’t yet installed Simple Forum, I have read through the installation Docs (a separate download in a nice pdf format), and it’s straightforward and well laid out. I will be installing this forum plugin in the coming weeks to try it out.
What are your thoughts on Simple Forum for Wordpress?
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A nice and easy forum for wordpress, but I still prefer vbulletin though
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Finally a good looking forum for WP. Away to try it now.
Sweet just what i was looking for, im sick of installing forums the hard way! They are so long winded! Not only that i always encounter problems and takes me ages to figure out what is wrong!
hmmm really wordpress make me crazy day after day.
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Hi, I successfully installed “Simple:Press Forum” to my client’s WordPress site. Unfortunately, I’m not seeing an option to create a link (tab) to the Forum. What am I missing?
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my vote is for integerating MyBB in to wordpress.
Guys anyone knows if it will be compatible with my actually installed SEO plugins? I mean like my google sitemaps, headspace and those… I am regarding to install it onto most of my blogs if it is actually stable with them.
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i think that simple wordpress is really easy to use. the format is easy to use. i’m not much of a computer jock and even i know how to use it.
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I’d recommend simple press, it works brilliantly and the author is very active and helpful in his support forums.
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I think this is also available for Joomla! and I have found it to excellent. Will think about incorporating this into my wordpress sites.
Yes we need a wordpress forum with video tutorials. Should include the plugins we need where to get them and what they do.
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That forum is a bit out dated & not very popular, or am I missing something? what’s wrong with installing a vB forum or IPB, Call those forums as paid, so what, they are still much better and don’t cost too much.
Simple Forum looks great. Like you, I’m continually looking for the best forum for my sites. I think you many have found a winner, top-runner atleast. Thank you!
I’m looking for something really simple … basically a guestbook layout with no threads, groups, sub-forums … just one free-flowing set of sequential comments. However, I need the administration and moderation capabilities you get with most discussion boards/forums … like warning, banning, post edit/delete, user registration etc.
Almost think of it like a single thread discussion board that is only ever a single thread. Have a look at bulldogs.rleague.com to see what I mean … this is PHP-based tool I want to replace.
Any ideas?
Hi Chris,
Off the top of my head I would suggest using WP and the commenting system already built in. There are many WP commenting plugins to enhance your comments, and you could administer them all from the WP back end.
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Finally a good looking forum for WP. Away to try it now.
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I just cant get the hang of Wordpress at all. Can anyone recommend any online guides that I can refer to?
Nice, I always wanted WP forum on my blog. but never knew how to get about in doing it. Thanks for the tutorial. But will implementing a forum have a significant drop on my loading time? I don’t want to compromise performance for the forum.
It would depend on the traffic to the forum of course, but I can’t offer any real statistics other than to state the obvious: more traffic = more server load. One sure-fire way to speed things up is to install the WP-Super Cache plugin. You can’t go wrong with that:)
I tryed Simple forum and it’s pretty good! And I think I will try this WP-Super Cache plugin too! My server is free and not so fast but for the price (Free). I find it’s a deal with all they offer. I mean, I can install almost everything a paying site have.
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Hi,
I need a word press plugin , it should have to change all text area(text area that is added by any widget) to editor. I can explain, if i add that plugin, i can change all text areas of all widgets(which is included in that project) into editor format(may be TyneMCE). Presently there is so many editor that convert comment area into editor format. My requirement is different. I couldn’t find such type of plugin anywhere. can you help me? or advice me? if yes its valuable for me now.
Rgds
anoop
Hi anoop,
If I understand you correctly, you are looking for a plugin that adds the TinyMCE editor to widgets. Is that correct? If so, then I think a solution exists that you may like… http://www.findableblogs.com/plugins/wysiwyg-text-widget/
Dear Sir,
Thankz for your valuable comment. But actually this is not my need. i am looking for a plugin that adds the TinyMCE editor to widget. if the widget contains a textarea , that plugin should change that textarea to TinyMCE Editer(in view page). Can You help me?
rgds
anoop
I’m sorry, I don’t know if this exists. I will keep looking and post back if I find one.
thank you sir….. i am waiting for your reply…
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Finally a cool plugin for installing/creating a forum in word press.
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Ohhh cool. that’s really neat. I wanted to create a new blog with a forum but didn’t know on how to get along with it. Thanks again. This is why I love Wordpress so much. Its so awesome and you get the freedom to do all these stuff. WP rocks.
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Anyone here know why I am getting a 505 error when installing simpleforum?
When I hit “install”, I suddenly can’t access any of my admin pages (wp-login) it only gives me a “505 error”. The blog itself pulls up fine. It is only after I go into the FTP to remove simple forum manually do I regain access. Any ideas? If any could help that would be great.
oops. I think it was a 500 error not 505. Sorry
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Hi I did try simple forum, but it was messing about a little! I did use this as a plugin for my website that I have wordpress on. I could not upload images for some reason, I did allow image uploading on the tick box, but just would not work!
Is there any other forum that could be intergrated with wordress? Would like something that is SEO enabled!
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Something strange began to occur each time I attempt to edit a post. When I attempt to save the edit, I get a grey dialog box asking me for some sort of password/ID. If I cancel, or anything else, it reverts to a blank page that says “access error”. When I go back to the post’s edit page, the edit is not there. Has anyone else encountered this in WordPress?
I’m up in the air about this topic. I’m thinking of installing Simple Forum but I’ve also heard great things about Forum Server, an updated version of WP Forum. bbPress doesn’t seem to get great reviews, but there sure are a ton of plugins to help it integrate into a WP install. Hopefully I can try Simple Forum with Mingle on my blog. Thanks for the reviews.
I’ve tried SMF and MyBB in the past, with varying levels of success. I think I may try your suggestion and see how it compares.
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