[wp-hackers] Wordpress as a Forum - Power of Themes and Plugins

[Amit Gupta]

well, there was a theme for the WP1.5 theme competition that Alex King 
ran,
that theme was called something like 'Forumed', I'm not sure but it gave 
a
WordPress blog the look of a forum. maybe that can be your starting 
point,
since the post was displayed as the thread starting topic in that & all
comments to that post looked like the replies!!

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Amit Gupta
http://igeek.info/  ||  http://blog.igeek.info/
http://blog.igeek.info/wp-plugins/igsyntax-hiliter





  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff Minard
  To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
  Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 3:03 AM
  Subject: [wp-hackers] Wordpress as a Forum - Power of Themes and 
Plugins


  So, I'm setting in on my next big WP project.

  I've been running a forum now for a little bit and, to say the least,
  have been annoyed at the difficulty with which it takes to 
update/modify
  this hunker (and punbb isn't even that heavy).

  This got me thinking, "gosh, I wish this had the Wordpress API -- it's
  totally awesome for simple patches and fixes." This, in turn, got me 
to
  thinking, "well, gee, couldn't I just turn WP _into_ a forum?"

  I've been pondering this for a few weeks now and have started on
  development[1], but here's my aim:

  "Utilizing Themes and Plugins, transform Wordpress into forum 
software."

  I thought I might hit up the list for suggestions or ideas. I did some
  googling to see if this had been tried (outside of bbPress) but only
  found things like merging user tables, or including forum software as 
a
  plugin.

  I figure, Wordpress (2.0, that is) has most of what is needed and the
  rest is just a matter of formatting (themes) and some functionality
  (plugins):

    - Topics == Posts
    - Replies == Comments
    - Users == Er, users
    - Profiles == Author Pages

  And plugins could provide optional "on top" functionality like
    - Subscribe to forum/thread via email
    - Avatar support
    - More User Meta
    - Image Upload (sorta already built in)
    - Signatures
    - Polls
    - ... and other things - a lot of which already has some sort of WP
  Plugin made!


  Anywho, just looking for some input about the idea.


    [1] http://wpforum.jrm.cc/ (Nowhere near ready)

  Thanks!

  Jeff Minard

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