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Forums? A misnomer or a missed opportunity perhaps?

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Just settling in to my new luxury membership, saying hello and hoping for a conversation. I just wish my first post were not accompanied by a vague sense of ‘What the heck…?”

The first plugin I have used is Forums. But by what stretch of the imagination did it get that name? From what I can see this is really a front end post editor, and could be hugely useful as such, if it actually did that for all posts.

But as a forum… ? No access controls, notifications, moderation, threading, this looks more like a thinly disguised comment manager rather than a forum.

Please tell me that I am missing something.

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:16:25
  • Philip John
    • DEV MAN’s Apprentice

    Hiya,

    Forums is designed as a more simple, effective and embeddable alternative to bbPress.

    There’s not much point doing a more fully featured plugin as bbPress already does that and the upcoming release of bbPress will allow other plugins to hook into and extend it further.

    Phil

  • guileshill
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Thanks Phil. I’ve been looking at the bbpress schedule, guess I will join the queue for that. I wanted to get away from the table-based, single forum approach of SimplePress, especially for a new multisite community, although it works well enough on some single sites.

    Perhaps there is a future for the Forums plugin as a front end post editor, this is certainly something I would find interesting because I have users who are reluctant to use even the highly simplified back end interface.