WordPress Based Forum Software

[Jason]

One is called bbPress. Another is WordForo. Anyhow, who uses stuff like this? What is it like? How do you compare it to other forum software?

 

[Arantor]

You’d be surprised who uses it - it’s inevitably people with a WordPress that want a community but don't want to fight with another software to get there - usually something like a support section of a product website.

They don’t scale as well as the standalone forums but generally do follow the site theme out of the box, which for many is a plus. There’s also a greater likelihood of them supporting nested comments out of the box, unlike most of the standalone forums.

 

[Jason]

Does anyone feel WordPress is trying to monopolize stuff, like Facebook and certain chain stores do?

 

[Tracy]

One of the "support" sites for Indi Library for my astrophotography/astronomy computer capture software uses Kunena... and honestly... I'd rather eat sand burrs covered in Pure Evil 13 Million hot sauce than use it regularly.
It's slow, it's klunky, its slow (did I already mention that?).
I only use it when I need to research issues that present themselves on some of my test beds. The bad thing is.. the folks that run it also base their RPi/NUC software from the same server apparently.. and it sucks also for getting support.

 

[TwitchisMental]

You’d be surprised who uses it - it’s inevitably people with a WordPress that want a community but don't want to fight with another software to get there - usually something like a support section of a product website.

They don’t scale as well as the standalone forums but generally do follow the site theme out of the box, which for many is a plus. There’s also a greater likelihood of them supporting nested comments out of the box, unlike most of the standalone forums.

This is pretty accurate and does go with what I have seen. Wordpress don't play to well with others haha.(and vice versa in some cases)

 

[Arantor]

Does anyone feel WordPress is trying to monopolize stuff, like Facebook and certain chain stores do?

WP itself isn’t, if it was it would be more gung-ho about incorporating addons and features into core, rather than being very “that’s a third party problem” as they are today.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I know of at least one person that uses wordforo on his site, I suppose it's good for those who don't want to mess around with finding a bridge for a standalone forum software.

 

[kensonplays]

WP forum softwares are a bit TOO simple for my needs.

I ended up buying @Bob's blog addon and using that, making use of route filters to change my personal blog to /blog on my site.