Sep 24 2009

WordPress Forum Plugin – Simple:Press Forum

Ability to add forums to your WordPress blog gives you powerful options to extending your community. In my earlier post “WordPress Forums Plugins To Build Community” I have described couple different ways you can easily carry out that and today I want to expand on the topic by introducing new option:

Simple:Press Forum WordPress Plugin

Sometimes it is quite astonishing to see the quality of work coders release for WordPress in form of the plugins and this one fits the description perfectly!

Plugin is features rich and quite advanced and while I could recite them all here on this page, I don’t see the need, as it might change as plugin develops. Simply visit their features page to see all that is included.

Word of caution: plugin fully integrates into your blog and relies on your WordPress native user registration system. Great for simplicity but if you decide to use the plugin, you will have to allow people register on your blog.

A few of the latest WordPress exploits were based on ability of attacker to create an account then exploit it using “unpatched” vulnerability! If you are using this plugin or any other plugins that allow user registrations on your blog – ALWAYS patch WordPress As Soon As Possible!

Security for you should become priority number 1.

And don’t be scared! Plugin is awesome if you are ready for extend your community and benefit from forums, now natively integrated into your blog!

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5 Responses to “WordPress Forum Plugin – Simple:Press Forum”

Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach (28 comments.) says:
September 24, 2009 at 7:50 am Twitter: @barbaraling
THanks for the headsup! Forums can be an excellent benefit to any community (they do take a lot of care and feeding, however).
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- TheSpotter (886 comments.) says:
  September 24, 2009 at 8:07 am Twitter: @thespotter
  Thanks Barbara, that is why I don’t have one with this blog
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David (4 comments.) says:
September 24, 2009 at 7:55 am Twitter: @David_Walsh
Hi Alex,
Thanks for the great plugin. Downloading as I type.
One question that you may be able to help with. I was looking for a plugin like this, or maybe a private message board, where I could have dialogue on a coaching WP membership site and the only 2 people who could see each message was the client and myself.
Do you know of such a plugin, or software that could integrate with WP to do that?
I did find the Private Comment plugin which could have done it, but didn’t work with WP2.8.
Any help would be grateful.
David
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- TheSpotter (886 comments.) says:
  September 24, 2009 at 8:07 am Twitter: @thespotter
  David,
  Thanks and no, sorry. WordPress was designed to be a communication tool open to all. I recommend you look for third party services for what you need and not try to force WP do what it is not designed to do. Sorry, I simply was never interested in this type of plugin so can’t provide the answer.
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