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<div>Keep in mind that you may need to pay a monthly membership fee to WPMU to have access to their plugins ($19/mo.) – even if you only want one of them. You can stop membership anytime, but you may miss out on updates and support if you do. I have had a
somewhat adversarial position to their pricing model and have chosen to buy competitor's products that were sufficient, even though I would have preferred not to.</div>
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<div>On the other hand, you may prefer to pay the monthly fee to gain the advantage of all of the support resources if you need them, as well as having access to all the other plugins they provide that comes with membership. It depends on your needs.</div>
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<div>It's not a bad thing – but just be informed before you consider the problem solved with a WPMU plugin.</div>
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<div>Thx – Steve</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Ronnie Burt <<a href="mailto:burtrw@gmail.com">burtrw@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>"<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, April 11, 2013 2:08 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [wp-edu] Discussion board plugin<br>
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<div>This plugin is really simple to use and works perfectly on large multisite networks. No configuration or headaches :)</div>
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<div>It is well overdue for some new features and updates - though it may meet your needs. There should be quite a few new features and improvements in the next month or so. These new features are a direct result of feedback from the hundreds of universities
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<div>Thanks!</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Joseph Ugoretz <span dir="ltr">
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<div>We have had fantastic success with Simple:Press. It is extremely feature-rich, so initial configuration can be challenging, but for the end-user or even for the site admin once it is set up it is completely friendly and effective. </div>
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<div>It is absolutely the best discussion board platform I have ever seen, far better than even dedicated forum software packages like phpBB, vBulletin or XenForo. </div>
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<div>Highly recommended. The plugin is free although support requires a paid membership (well worth it, the developers are responsive and helpful) </div>
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On Apr 11, 2013, at 1:56 PM, "Grogan, David" <<a href="mailto:David.Grogan@tufts.edu" target="_blank">David.Grogan@tufts.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<span>Can anyone make a recommendation on a discussion board plugin to use in a WP site? This is a multi-site instance and I'd like individual site admins to be able to place the discussion board on any page within their site.</span><br>
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