Adding a forum to a blog

I’ve been debating adding a forum to FBW for a while now. This weekend I decided it was time. Sure, there’s not as much traffic here as I would like and that’s probably going to lead to a fairly slow start to the forum. But every board’s got to start somewhere, right? [...]

bbPress 0.9 Released

The bbPress folks have released version 0.9 of their forum software.
It looks like the primary reason for the upgrade is so that those that have integrated bbPress and WordPress can upgrade to WordPress 2.5. There are also several new features including an installer, more RSS feeds, and Gravatar support. The bbPress [...]

When to start a forum?

This is a question for those of y’all that visit here. When is it time to add a forum to a site? Ultimately I want to have a forum here at ForumsBlogsWikis, but I know that right now there isn’t enough traffic to support a forum. So for those of you that [...]

5 Tips For Picking a Forum Topic

So you’re ready to start up a new forum, but have no idea for what the topic needs to be. Here are 5 tips for selecting a topic.
1 - What are your interests?

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8 Reasons NOT to start a forum

There are thousands and thousands of web forums out there. My guess is that if you’re reading this you’re at least thinking of starting one if you haven’t already. We hear about the reasons to start a forum (fun, branding, marketing, etc) but it’s difficult to find information on why you shouldn’t start a [...]