[Scott Kingsley Clark]

I wanted to let everyone know that I’ve been working on a clone of bbPress which is built entirely in Pods. I’m not intending it to replace bbPress, but I am intending to continue development of the functionality to bring it to more of a vBulletin level. That’s the big picture anyway, I’m nearly done with getting bbPress functionality done itself.

You can see my progress here:

http://www.scottkclark.com/forums/beta-testers-unite/current-status-of-the-forums-package/

Once I’ve completed it, I will post the package on the Pods site so you can just import the package into your own site.

For info about Pods, go to http://pods.uproot.us/

[r-a-y]

This is mighty interesting!

If you can build vBulletinesque features into your bbPress-Pods clone, you’ll get a mass following!

[Scott Kingsley Clark]

r-a-y,

Thanks for your interest in the project! It’s definitely heading in that direction

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

bbPress is going to be developed as a WordPress plugin now.

[r-a-y]

Yeah, I know, but it’s good to have alternatives!

[Scott Kingsley Clark]

Finally done with it, took a little bit because I got very busy with client work. You can check it out at:

http://podscms.org/packages/bbforums/

[nickaster]

Here’s a crazy question. Whatever bbpress evolves into, will migration to something new, like what you’re building, be a crazy nightmare?

[Scott Kingsley Clark]

I’m building a migration script that does migration automatically. As for what bbPress itself evolves into, I’m not sure if it will get easier or more difficult, but I plan on accommodating a reasonable amount of trouble

[copperblade]

I don’t know much about Pods, but how does this handle things like wordpress-bbpress integration? Is there user integration?

[Scott Kingsley Clark]

There is no separation between WP users and users in Pods. Pods is a plugin built ontop of the WP framework. It creates custom tables which are scuplted to fit the exact specifications of the content developed with Pods.