I’m trialing a new wp plugin called simple forum. Its pretty cool, I see lots of uses for it on quite a few blogs that I’m running.
You can see it in action over at my Blog Forum page 
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I don’t really have the user base here yet to really see this thing fly here, but its good to kick around and experiment with.
If you play with it at all let me know what you think.
Maybe you’d like to see specific forums added, or maybe you just want to go in there and make a little noise and cause a rumpus 
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Let me know what you think, I’d love to hear your views.
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Andy Beard - WP Forum Plugin - Trialing
June 7th, 2007 at 12:59 pmThere are a few Forum plugins I have played around with so far, and even still have a link for a forum on my blog, but I haven’t pinned down which one to use.
An alternative is to use BBPress, or a dedicated forum script that has some Wordpress integration available.
robwatts - WP Forum Plugin - Trialing
June 7th, 2007 at 3:21 pmI remember looking into this about a year or so ago. I ended up getting a bit of a headache with it all as most I looked at weren’t very well integrated at all. I like this one thus far, although it is early days and I’d probably want to hack up it a little to get some cross blog forum pollenation.
Of course, threaded blog comments similar to that used on your blog are a related option too, so I might take that route instead/also.
What I like about the forum option is that its far more structured and logical in layout and approach. Some people like that stuff,or at least the success of various forums would seem to indicate at least.
Again its experimental, I’ll either get all enthused and attack it with relish or find its just not really adding to this thing here and use it elsewhere.
Time and a little play about will tell of course.
Webeternity web design - WP Forum Plugin - Trialing
February 9th, 2008 at 12:27 pmgood plugin, I here something about security issues does this apply for this version? also how do you get mod-rewrite or SEO freindly URLs to work? e.g. web-forums/?forumaction=showforum&forum=8 to /web-forums/rules_of_the_forums
robwatts - WP Forum Plugin - Trialing
February 9th, 2008 at 9:04 pmHello
No, I’ve applied the patch offered by the author.
Modrewrite - I never got round to implementing a fix for that, It basically involves getting in there and hacking away at the codethat outputs the hrefs and editing an .htacess file with some rewrite rules.
Check this out
http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mod_rewrite-rewriterule-generator.shtml
BestHosting - WP Forum Plugin - Trialing
March 10th, 2008 at 2:43 pmCan anyone show me a working wp-forum-plugin enabled website ?
many thanks.
robwatts - WP Forum Plugin - Trialing
March 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pmSure, http://www.yackyack.co.uk/blog-forum/
John - WP Forum Plugin - Trialing
March 10th, 2008 at 6:00 pmRob, apart from your forum, have you seen any running under a heavier load, busier I mean. Would like to see an installation with all features being used and have a poke around!
robwatts - WP Forum Plugin - Trialing
March 10th, 2008 at 8:15 pmah, well in that case - no, but this guy runs it
http://www.waywordradio.org/discussion/
can’t say how busy it is though
John - WP Forum Plugin - Trialing
March 10th, 2008 at 9:51 pmThanks Rob, will have a look.
Sorry if this appears twice but I hit Post and I am not sure I completed the Math
robwatts - WP Forum Plugin - Trialing
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:19 pmUPdate on this, Ive discontinued the plugin due to lack of time to commit to this place. All links redirect to homepage now.