Comments on: Forum vs WordPress

By: snegoviksukablyat

snegoviksukablyat — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:20:18 +0000

hello
im new on this forum….

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:23:13 +0000

@Tony: I have actually solved this issue and have it running on a few sites now. I will write a post about my experiences soon. I looked at BBPress in the beginning but in the end I was not convinced by mixing the two technologies and ended up customising phpBB instead.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:05:03 +0000

The makers of WordPress also have their own forum package called BBPress. Look for it on the Automattic website. They are doing a whole pile of integration work, including the security. This may or may not solve your issue.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:53:10 +0000

@Lyndi: Thanks for the feedback, I feel like I am maybe over-thinking it to be honest. I have decided that whatever I decide for the front page the framework will be a forum. So, I am going to get that going first and see how I can snazzy it up on the front page, as the typical forum layout is not what I am looking for.

I’ll give you both a shout once I get it up and running and see what you think.

By: Lyndi

Lyndi — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:46:26 +0000

What you have said here makes sense, I think.

The only advice I have for you here is that WordPress might not be the way to go if you want multi-users publishing directly to the site. I maintain a WordPress photographic community type blog. Here we allow very simple registration and the ability to add posts. The thing has become a security nightmare. In the month this site has been live I have already had to restore the database twice. Rarst might be correct, WordPress might not be your solution here (did I say that?).

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:38:21 +0000

@Rarst: I think you may be right… Since I have used WordPress I seem to have got a little addicted to it. Maybe I need to step away from WordPress for a while. I want to build a community but the forums that plug into WordPress all seem lacking, not least from the security angle. Using a forum as the foundations just seems a little more “solid” from a community angle. I guess I will just have to bite the proverbial bullet and see how it goes… will be an interesting experiment I’m sure.

Thanks for the comment.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:57:11 +0000

I don’t really see why exactly you want to use WordPress in this setup (because it’s cool?).

Creating syndicated front page and few static pages front-end for the forum can be perfectly done without WP at all I think.

I am not sure I completely understand you reasoning but it looks like one of “if you have WordPress every problem looks like a blog” type.