XDFORUM, google it! Or PhpBB
Err, klifix, he did say he wasn’t looking for xdforum 😉
A way to bridge userbase between SMF and WP would be nice. There’s bridges like that between SMF and Mambo/Joomla, and between Mambo/Joomla and WP, but nothing direct between SMF and WP that I could find. WOuld be a nice plugin 🙂
yeh, I didn’t read that well I guess 🙁
As I read this topic I know that SMF is the best option. Antoher great php board is XMB, to be found at http://www.xmbforum.com . I us e it within my website. http://www.klifix.nl
The lay-out of this forum is fully adjustable to your needs and even, if you do well, within the same lay-out as your wordpress theme. There are ways to integrate this forum into wordpress, such as useraccounts etcetera. I didn’t for the reason it was to much work for me. Ways to do this is to be found in the supportforums on XMB (just use search).
What I did was to make a simple php file which get’s things such as ‘last posts’ and ‘user accounts’ to appear on the frontpage of my website. If you want to know just send me an email to info@klifix.nl.
I am very pleased with this forumboard, because it has so many functions to make your board a success. There is a way to integrate a very handy chatprogramm within this board.
It’s worth wile to take a look at it!
Sorry, can’t use your site on Firefox, the layout’s all buggered up 🙁
SMF is really the best OS, free forum software at the moment, except for one MAJOR problem that is their search function, which is definitely not working well at all.
Yet, a plugin to at least bridge users would be brilliant.
I wonder if anyone knows php well enough to “translate” the Mambo/Joomla bridge to SMF into WordPress to SMF, it can’t be that difficult, can it? (If only I was a code jock!) 😉
thanks for all the answers!
yeah, that would be great, wouldn’t it? i can’t understand how a big CMS like WordPress havn’t got the possibility to integrate with any decent forums.
btw: i liked xmbforum.com really much. nice layout. if they make a bridge here, i might as well use that.
StigRoar, I certainly understand why WP doesn’t have integration with other forums “out of the box”. I actually agree with that decision, if it was a conscious decision on WP’s part.
When I was on the Core Development Team of Joomla, one of the things we had to repeat over and over is the fact that Joomla is a CMS, *not* a forum. Worpress is a Blog, not a forum. It may be used as a CMS, but still, not a forum. Do you want the Core Team working on improving the WP code, or do you want them to scatter their energies and try to integrate a “decent forum”?
And even if they wanted to integrate a “decent forum”, which one? Do they pick SMF? phpBB? vBulletin? Which one? How about upgrade paths? No my friend, that avenue is fraught with danger for the core team of any system.
It is much better to use the 3rd Party Developer approach and have someone take on the project, as a plugin. It’s just too bad I can’t write php at that level, else I’d probably take it on (oh yes, that and many other ideas I have 😉 ).
I never meant that the WP team should develop this plugin. What I tried to say is that the WP community has many good developers, who should manage to make such a plugin/bridge.
