Incorporating a Forum into Your Wordpress Blog

[jellramvort]

If you are thinking about adding a forum to your WP blog, heres some helpful information and some tips.

There are several options here, two main ones:

Integrating External Forum Software:

There are plugins and documentation to use Simple Machines Forum (SMF) and combine your Wordpress userbase and make the two work together, there are at least two plugins available to simplify this procedure. The documentation is extensive and a bit complex.

Integrating Internal Forum Software:

These are more light weight, but provide easy setup and configuration, as they are simply Wordpress plugins..

There are at least two available:
RS-Discuss
XDForum

Good luck with your envdeavors and to see XDForum in action, or
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Incorporating a Forum into Your Wordpress Blog | Blogger Chat

[jlmcclellan]

I plan on having an active forum once I have a large enough readership, I will be sure to come back to this post once I get to that point.

[Bloggeries]

I'd recommend waiting until you have the traffic and time to dedicate to a forum. At that point the investment for vBulletin could be justified. If you aren't going that way and choose a free one; make sure it's one you can easily export into vB . If your forum gets huge you'll want vB it's great software. My $0.02

[PaulR]

Nice article. You did a good job of incorporating the forum into your blog.

Have you seen this wp forum plugin?
Stuff at Yellow Swordfish » Simple Forum

Best of luck