forum/bbs addon?

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  rakefx · Member · Apr 16, 2009 at 8:56 pm

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  I’ll be short and sweet. A forum addon/plugin/widget would be great for wordpress.com users who have a steady fan following and somewhat of a built community on their WP. People who have original content and use wordpress as their medium, so if fans or followers want to talk about certain things there, they can do so. It wouldn’t need to be fancy and people could just login with their pre-existing WP accounts.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 17, 2009 at 1:54 am

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  Have you looked at the P2 theme?

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  rakefx · Member · Apr 18, 2009 at 7:51 am

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  No. Should I? And is it relevant to the topic? :o

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 18, 2009 at 9:45 am

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  Yes. I don’t get paid by the word, you know.

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  rakefx · Member · Apr 19, 2009 at 8:35 am

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  *amazed*

  Altho, the P2 theme doesn’t pertain to what I was going for… it only covers a small element of comment/reply. But I can’t imagine a more to-the-point post!

  I’ll sit tight until the dev team imploys/develops a forum addon… it’s a no brainer in my eyes.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 19, 2009 at 2:04 pm

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  If you are going to wait for a forum addon here, one suggestion: Don’t hold your breath while waiting.

  You can go self-hosted and then use the bbPress forum software with it.

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  domomachine · Member · Apr 27, 2009 at 2:20 am

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  Well you could open up a free hosted subdomain and then install a bbs on their and iframe it to a page. The risk of that is of it looking very messy and not flowing with the the themes css. If you are really that intent of having a community I would suggest going self hosted.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 27, 2009 at 2:22 am

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  Sorry, iframes are not allowed here due to security concerns.

  Code

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  babaliciou5 · Member · Apr 27, 2009 at 2:28 am

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  @rakefx
  You can create a forum at http://ning.com for the mean time and link your fans to it trhu your WP.com blog, just saying….

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  olahandford · Member · Apr 29, 2009 at 10:27 am

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  Im looking into building a forum and thought about just putting link on a blog, but would be great if they could be somehow more combined. Im little bit scared of self hosted blog, yet.

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  atamaii · Member · May 11, 2009 at 5:24 pm

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  Not having an add-on forum, image gallery, and video gallery are probably going to have me leaving WP.com.

  Its state of the art blogging software to be sure, but I’ve found my people don’t read blogs.