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- Started 4 months ago by Razasharp
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Thinking about using bbPress - some questions
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Hi, I'm thinking about converting a vBulletin forum over to bbPress and have a few questions I hope someone can help with.
1 - Are there any anti-spam measures on sign-up? (I just had to enter an email address to register here)
2 - Do you have to have wordpress already installed? (I was thinking of testing bbPress by itself first)
3 - When you have wordpress installed, can it load in 'latest posts from the forum' in wordpress pages? Such as on category listing pages or actual blog posts.
4 - Is bbPress server efficient? vB has always been good on that front.
5 - Is it easy to customise? The style I will want to port over is at http://www.gameslurp.com
6 - Does bbPress track unread/new posts? So any new posts can be shown in bold on the forum listing page if they contain new posts since the last visit/page refresh?
Think that's it for now - any input from people who have converted a vB forum would be great appreciated too.
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- Posted 4 months ago #
Before I answer, I have a bbPress forum site that create for some times and I don't really make it public. So there is no other post than mine and team (and spam that i deleted already). I still manage others projects with other team.
1 - Are there any anti-spam measures on sign-up? (I just had to enter an email address to register here)
Yes, I use WangGuard and reCaptcha for bbPress 2.0
2 - Do you have to have wordpress already installed? (I was thinking of testing bbPress by itself first)
Yes, because bbPress is a plugin
3 - When you have wordpress installed, can it load in 'latest posts from the forum' in wordpress pages? Such as on category listing pages or actual blog posts.
Yes, sample:
Newest topics at http://themescommunity.com/newest-topics/
Newest post ... no idea yet since I don't need it for now.4 - Is bbPress server efficient? vB has always been good on that front.
vB still the best choice if you want the best forum IMHO
5 - Is it easy to customise? The style I will want to port over is at http://www.gameslurp.com
Yes, but not the same. The feel maybe can be achieve by styles but not the features.
6 - Does bbPress track unread/new posts? So any new posts can be shown in bold on the forum listing page if they contain new posts since the last visit/page refresh?
Some modification needed, but no idea yet since I don't even think about yet.
Hope satisfy your need, not much but that my little knowledge about bbPress that I can share. I believe others will answer more and detailed.
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