Forum Integration for Wordpress?

[eronkid]

I'm planning to start a forum for my blog. My blog is running on Wordpress, I want to know if there is a way wherein I can integrate a forum inside my blog? I want to add a page named 'forum' and the forum will load inside my wordpress blog, together with the sidebar and everything on it.

What forum is best for this? Thank you.

[Bagi Zoltán]

If i were you i would use bbpress, which is the twin of the WP. Easily can be configured to use the user table of the WP installation, and the skin can be customized very easily i think.

[rhyswynne]

Yes, I would recommend BBPress. I use it on my Retro Gaming Blog:-

Retro Garden - Retro Gaming & Video Games Reviews, News and Features

and here's the forum

Retro Garden Retro Games & Vintage Video Gaming Discussion Forum

What's useful is the way in which it integrates. Users from your forum can use their wordpress accounts to comment on your blog.

[bochgoch]

Same here ... BBPress integrates well - the templates are similar enough to be able to take your WP template and apply to BBPress with a little bit of work. My example is>>

main site: my barn conversion
forum: my barn conversion forum

[eronkid]

Is posting signature available for bbpress?

[rhyswynne]

There is a plugin available that allows it (the other thing great about bbpress, a lot of plugins! And it shouldn't require too much work to convert the plugins used in Wordpress to bbpress)

bbPress Signatures « bbPress plugin browser