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.

[@noerman Member 12 years, 11 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.