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    • Add A Simple Forum To Your Wordpress Blog

    November 19, 2007 | By Rishi Raj |

    Want to have a forum for your blog? It can help your blog by increasing the rate of discussion and interaction on your blog. But if you are unable to use phpBB or not able to afford vBulletin then what should you do? All you can do then is go wordpress!

    You can even add a forum to your Wordpress blog only. RS Discuss is a plugin which lets you to do so. RS Discuss allows you to add a simple bulletin board forum on your blog which lets your readers do everything they can do on a forum.

    Installing RS Discuss is very easy, you just need to upload the plugin file to your Wordpress plugin directory and then activate it. You can even add administrators, moderators in your Wordpress forum, just goto the RS Discuss menu and edit the user settings.

    Pros:

    • Another cool plugin to add yet another functionality to your blog which can increase the blog’s SEO factors.
    • Easy user management like moderating, rating users, banning users etc.
    • RSS Feeds to the forums.
    • Can easily be indexed in your blog’s search system.
    • Multiple themes available, even own blog theme can be used.
    • Available in many languages.

    Cons:

    • Some conflict is there with Wordpress 2.3 tagging system.
    • Forum URLs are not much SEO friendly.
    • Requires you to allow user registration in your Wordpress blog.

    Overall, this plugin can be very helpful if you have a plugin release or a theme release. It can even be very helpful to increase your blog popularity.

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    4 Comments »

    Comment by ITExperience.net
    2007-11-19 14:58:40

    Thank you for this post! It’ll help me to make my own site more popular

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    Comment by govinda adhikari
    2007-11-23 07:07:24

    i like full phase of comment and connection

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    Comment by ALEX NEWELL
    2007-11-28 16:20:29

    I am amazed that I have never thought of installing a forum on a blog. I guess I was thinking of WP as just a blog!

    Thanks for this!

    Alex

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    Comment by David
    2008-01-07 00:45:27

    Will it be prone to forum spammers?

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