Title: forums
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# forums

 *  [25kgbox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/25kgbox/)
 * (@25kgbox)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-4/)
 * Does anyone have a forum plugin that works with 2.2?
 * i have spent three weeks trying to get a forum onto my new blog.
 * XDForum: No option in admin to edit/add trheads/topics and the actual forum page
   claims it cant be displayed because that page has been deleted. “sorry the page
   you looking for have been deleted” couldnt get any help and when i register so
   i can ask for help in the forum, i never get an email with my password
 * WP-Forum: This one looked promising and well done, however, again with the no
   way of adding topics and threads. the instructions say that the options are in
   the ‘manage’ menu in the admin… but no dice. couldnt get any help and when i 
   register so i can ask for help in the forum, i never get an email with my password
 * RS-Discuss: more of a discussion board than a forum 🙁 but everything worked 
   fine. it is just missing the option to add threads. it just has topics that people
   can comment on
 * simple-forum: everything goes fine until i try to actually view my forum and 
   see that nothing is their. i get the title and such, but no actual forum
 * So i am concidering using phpBB because i understand their are plugins for wordpress
   intigration. How good are these plugins? will they use the same users/members
   from my wordpress as members of phpBB?

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 *  [ryanarrowsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanarrowsmith/)
 * (@ryanarrowsmith)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-4/#post-566685)
 * Try bbpress ([http://bbpress.org/](http://bbpress.org/)). Made by the fine folks
   at WordPress. 🙂 You’re currently using it here.
 *  [thatdaveguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thatdaveguy/)
 * (@thatdaveguy)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-4/#post-566756)
 * any further insight here? i despise the bbpress software, its ugly as sin.
 *  [DianeV](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianev/)
 * (@dianev)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-4/#post-566757)
 * Well, display has to do with design, rather than functionality. You can always
   update the design to your heart’s content.
 * There are also: vBulletin and IPB forums, although those aren’t free.
 *  [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-4/#post-566760)
 * i would recommend Simple Machines Forums. I am using it and it is free.
 *  [ganzua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ganzua/)
 * (@ganzua)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-4/#post-566761)
 * “So i am concidering using phpBB because i understand their are plugins for wordpress
   intigration. How good are these plugins? will they use the same users/members
   from my wordpress as members of phpBB?”
 * -> There is a pluggin out there but it didn’t work for me.
 * I still haven’t found any way of integrating wordpress and phpbb logins.
 * In my opinion the painless solution is;
 * * using phpbb with a “phpbb blog” if you can find any.
 * * using wordpress with bbpress, xd or vanilla. However, these forums fall far
   behind phpbb.
 * I’m really considering to leave wordpress for phpbb3 and only stopped by the 
   fact that I didn’t came across any good phpbb blog yet.
 *  [DianeV](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianev/)
 * (@dianev)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-4/#post-566788)
 * If this was me wanting to integrate logins between a blog and a forum, if integrated
   software (that I liked) did not exist, I’d find software I liked and then get
   someone to integrate the logins. I know it can be done.
 *  [snowcrash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snowcrash/)
 * (@snowcrash)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-4/#post-566791)
 * For the long term bbpress is the best bet as integration & maintenance will be
   easier.
 * Otherwise, try vanilla [http://getvanilla.com/](http://getvanilla.com/) – it’s
   possible to integrate users
 *  [jjgallow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjgallow/)
 * (@jjgallow)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-4/#post-566838)
 * I’m getting SMF (www.simplemachines.org) forums integrated to a point that I 
   could ALMOST call universally stable. I won’t claim it quite yet.
 * You can give it a try here:
 * [http://www.earthorbit.com/opensource](http://www.earthorbit.com/opensource)

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 * [forum](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/forum/)
 * [forums](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/forums/)
 * [phpBB](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/phpbb/)
 * [rs-discuss](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rs-discuss/)
 * [SMF](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/smf/)
 * [xdforum](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xdforum/)

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-4/#post-566838)
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