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What is this forum built on? Some of the features

What is this forum built on? Some of the features and layouts are really neat but which forum is the WPMU forum actually leaning on?

Sun, 4 Aug 2013 14:29:00
  • Alexander
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Hi @hannapanna,

    It’s based on bbPress, but it’s actually from an older version of bbPress that we maintain ourselves. A good majority of the extra features are things we’ve developed in house.

    bbPress is definitely a great platform, so I’d recommend checking it out if you haven’t already. There are also a good amount of plugins for it as well.

    Best regards

  • hannapanna
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Interesting but isn’t bbpress a bit primitive when it comes to moderation? I used to host a rather big SMF forum and was trying to set up something similar using bbpress and found it a bit primitive on the moderation part. Maybe I’m wrong..

  • Alexander
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Hi @hannapanna,

    You definitely don’t get all the forum bells and whistles that you would with something like SMF of phpBB3, but because bbPress is so integrated with WordPress, there’s alot of flexibility when you’re using other WordPress plugins. It’s also now the official forum platform for BuddyPress.

    If you need something for moderation, you could checkout this plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpressmoderation/

    Best regards

  • hannapanna
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Thanks for the tip but even so I find it hard to build a forum site leaning on WP cause it’s still too far away regular message boards. Even mysef get somewhat irritated and confused on this site :slight_frown: even though I’m a WP user since like forever :smiley: