Thank you very much for that really fast and informative reply, Samboll.
I guess I wasn’t clear about that last bit. BBPress does look like a full featured forum to me… and I like the way it integrates right into a WordPress site (like this one).
Her non-profit is looking for user polls in the forum, as well as role-based visibility of various forum areas. For instance, one of her User Groups will be that of a member of the non-profit. Those non-profit members should be able to see an area of the forum that the general public can’t see.
Can BBPress handle displaying parts of the forum based on User Groups, in conjunction with the plugin you mentioned that will handle the User Groups/Roles on the WordPress side?
All in all, this is great news, that all of this functionality can be accomplished in WordPress. Thank you again for your extremely helpful post. I’m excited to get started here. 🙂
