This would be nice.

i like that idea, very interesting.

great idea. very cool. could be a good way to have comments on a site without inviting spambots. good luck if you decide to implement it...

Yes that would be great, Owen!! :-D

Well, I'm currently rewriting some of the MicroWiki stuff as a MicroLibrary for attaching other things to WordPress. When I'm done that, I'll have a functional library for building tools like a forum and bug database and shopping cart(!).

Oooh, someone's talking shopping cart! *drooling*

Yeah i would like & support this plugin

If you have ideas on what you want features are absolutely neccessary in a WordPress-integrated forum, leave them here. I'm probably going to start assembling this starting mid-next week.

Yay! We get to leave ideas!! I'm just gonna go with it... 1. the ability to turn off unregistered users posting 2. subscription to topic feature 3. new posts, since you've been here Um... maybe I think of more later... of course those are nothing special, stuff you've probably already thought of. :-D

Honestly, I hadn't thought of any of that. I'm obviously not a big forum user, which is why I'm asking for feature help. :)

Isn't this pretty much like bbpress by Matt? :-)

I would enjoy this plugin. It would work with the idea i have for my site. Saving me the trouble of giving certian people access to publishing and some not.

There are two problems with bbPress as it stands. First, there's no installer. Most people who download plugins and turn them on can't use bbPress in its current incarnation. Second, it doesn't play nice with the WordPress user tables. That is to say, you can set the table prefix to be the same between the two apps, but then the bbPress posts table and the WordPress posts table use the same name, and they hold different data for different apps. Since the intention of bbPress is to get them to work together, I can only assume that they've already conceived of some way to correct this problem. There is a lot more work to be done before anything you can cleanly integrate is ready on that front. Still, I like the WordPress forums a lot, and they are using the alpha code. I would contribute to the bbPress project in an effort to get the codesets (WordPress & bbPress) compatible, but I'm afraid that the changes that I would make to make merging the data easier aren't really going to make anyone who currently uses the system very happy.

Yes! A forum plugin is much needed for WP. You can always use the phpBB as it is opensource. :D

have you made any headway on this yet? I'd be very interested. the features i'd like to see are avatar support, quoting, editing, and generally anything you'd find on a regular message board. i frequent the Thrice message board (board.thrice.net) which uses vBulletin. Let me know if you've made any progress.

http://yoda.gatewayy.net/index.php/wp-phpbb/wp-phpbb/

I was poking around because my younger brother needed a forum plugin for wordpress and found this page. I couldn't find anything that integrated with WP's user table AS a plugin and not a full fledged standalone system (ie - phpbb), so I wrote one. Its about 24 hours old with about 5 hours into it and is very basic. Supports forum groups with forums in them, with threads in the forums, and posts in the threads. Supports anon posting (on or off) and is easy to install. DOES NOT: allow thread/post management, have WP post/comment browsing, have owner post editing. It does not change any WP tables, it just creates its own and queries the wp_users table. To install it you just upload the directory (xdforum) into your plug-ins directory and activate the plugin, then go to "Manage" -> "XD Forum Admin" and set the options and create your forums and groups. You must set your options at least once because this is when the database tables are created if its not installed already. you can get it here: http://www.xdweb.net/ (site disclaimer: i am a programmer, the looks of the site reflect that, dont judge me too harshly...)

I updated it a bit, you can see a live version at http://www.playbomb.com

I also did quite a long search for a WordPress/Forum integration, and found nothing really suitable. So I hacked up an integration of >Phorum> into WordPress. You can read a short howto on how to do it in my blog at >Integrating Wordpress and a Phorum-Forum> Everything is a bit hackish, but it looks nice :) Maybe you will find that useful.

I also did quite a long search for a WordPress/Forum integration, and found nothing really suitable. So I hacked up an integration of Phorum into WordPress. You can read a short howto on how to do it in my blog at http://www.gloegl.de/blog/archives/integrating-wordpress-and-a-phorum-forum Everything is a bit hackish, but it looks nice :) Maybe you will find that useful.

I see this idea was first formulated over a year ago. Is there still not a good forum plugin for Wordpress? Thanks.

Not that I know of.

Hi, so does someone has a simple forum / chat board? Pls, gimme a note / link on that. Thanks!

There is, there is! It's here: http://www.yellowswordfish.com/index.php?pagename=simple-forum-wordpress-plugin Or go to the Wordpress Plugins page at Wordpress.org and search for Forums!