{"id":386,"date":"2012-09-20T14:18:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeeskdenny.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2012-09-24T16:59:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T16:59:52","slug":"wordpress-plugins-for-converting-your-wordpress-site-to-a-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeeskdenny.com\/blog\/wordpress-plugins-for-converting-your-wordpress-site-to-a-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Plugins for converting your wordpress site to a forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging is getting commercialized now. Because of this, making a blog with dedication and making blogging a deep passion is familiar for tech junkies now. While the beginners are with Blogger they further moves to the open source and great WordPress. Both of these blogging platforms have their advantages and disadvantages as well. But our topic is not concerned about a comparison but aiming WordPress based blog. As we know, starting a blog, publishing content, and making It famous is a quite tedious task, especially now (Of course the reason is the massive number of blogs.) But probably you\u2019ll be reading this post if your blog is a little famous and when readers consider it as a perfect techy source.<br \/>\nOnce your WordPress based blog is getting famous, at least some of the readers will consider it as their most reliable source for tech stuff. Therefore they\u2019ll be having a need of community for clearing their doubts when comment system won\u2019t be an appropriate one. So for comfortability and attracting more people, using a forum website will be better. But starting a forum website may not be much good for both readers and admin itself. Since you\u2019re using WordPress as the Content Management System, you don\u2019t have to fear because the mentioned open source CMS has also a huge collection of Plug-ins to support. So here you can find some top, reliable WordPress plug-ins for turning your blog into a forum website as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeeskdenny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vanilla-demo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-389 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"vanilla-demo\" src=\"http:\/\/jeeskdenny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vanilla-demo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jeeskdenny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vanilla-demo.png 590w, http:\/\/jeeskdenny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vanilla-demo-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/vanilla-forums\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vanilla Forums<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nVanilla Forums is an open source based forum system with a large number of active users. Famous websites including PennyArcade, Cult of Mac, and 9to5 are using this system to control their forum websites. This service has two faces; one free version and a pro-level one. The free version can never be considered only as a template since it involves a install process. And so, the system has an entirely different phase from your website. So you\u2019ve to upload and configure the service. Therefore you can go smoothly with Vanilla forums if you\u2019re a little bit aware about WordPress installation and Database related things.<br \/>\nOnce you finish the Vanilla Forum setup, you can integrate the service and your WordPress installation using a WordPress\/Vanilla bridge plug-in. This is a little tedious task and you\u2019ll need of a tutorial like This.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Advantages:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n\u2022 Well Trusted Service and used by a large number of Websites<br \/>\n\u2022 Widgets available for WordPress blog<br \/>\n\u2022 Availability of embedded codes for placing forums on an existing page<br \/>\n<em><strong>Disadvantages:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n\u2022 A little complicated installation procedure which involves FTP and Database related configuration and a Plug n Play option is unavailable.<br \/>\n\u2022 Integration with WordPress Is much difficult task<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jeeskdenny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vanilla-config.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-390\" title=\"vanilla-config\" src=\"http:\/\/jeeskdenny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vanilla-config.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jeeskdenny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vanilla-config.png 590w, http:\/\/jeeskdenny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vanilla-config-300x211.png 300w, http:\/\/jeeskdenny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vanilla-config-130x90.png 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/bbpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">bbPress<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Hope you\u2019re familiar with BuddyPress which converts your WordPress blog into a well working Social Networking Service. If you want to add a forum like experience along with BuddyPress, you can select bbPress which is also owned by Automatic. Because of coming from same place, you can get the best support and easier integration with WordPress as well.<br \/>\nIf you want more than default features, a massive number of plug-in are available for also bbPress. This service doesn\u2019t interrupt your WordPress blog with big widgets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jeeskdenny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/bbpress1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-391\" title=\"bbpress1\" src=\"http:\/\/jeeskdenny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/bbpress1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jeeskdenny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/bbpress1.png 590w, http:\/\/jeeskdenny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/bbpress1-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Advantages:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n\u2022 Deep integration with WordPress Admin panel<br \/>\n\u2022 You\u2019ll get better support since it\u2019s from the source of WordPress<br \/>\n\u2022 Great working with BuddyPress and WordPress<br \/>\n\u2022 Doesn\u2019t interrupt your WordPress theme and page templates<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disadvantages:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n\u2022 You\u2019ll feel a simplicity if you\u2019re migrating from a forum oriented website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging is getting commercialized now. 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