{"id":476,"date":"2006-09-26T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T01:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=476"},"modified":"2007-01-25T00:10:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T07:10:01","slug":"blogoff-post-99-integrating-a-forum-with-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/476\/blogoff-post-99-integrating-a-forum-with-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogoff Post #99: Integrating a forum with WordPress . . . ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/how-to-group-writing-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">Problogger &#8216;How To&#8230;&#8217; Group Writing Project<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bloghelper.is-there.net\/integrating-a-forum-with-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">blogHelper offers great help on the subject of &#8220;Integrating a forum with WordPress&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the most popular questions I&#8217;m e-mailed with is usually along the lines of: How do I integrate a forum with my WordPress (WP) blog?. Often, this is with reference to using WP as a more web site-ish CMS, e.g. a community site. So, I thought I&#8217;d kill three birds with this post. One: Write a (hopefully) brief guide answering the abovementioned question. Two: Before writing a how-to on using WP for a community site, prepare for it by tackling the forum integration issue first. Three: Participate in ProBlogger&#8217;s latest group writing project (which will be my first ever participation BTW).<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s get to work. I&#8217;ll list each option I know of, along with instructions or more likely, links to those elsewhere on how to integrate it with WordPress &#8211; both backend, e.g. user accounts, and layout\/design-wise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re not ready for this at BloodhoundBlog, but this is an eminently doable next step of blogevolution. The forum software discussed is available to you as a part of your hosting package if you host your own domain. And where a weblog can serve hundreds of active members, a forum can serve thousands&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sellsius 101\" rel=\"tag\">sellsius 101<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Problogger &#8216;How To&#8230;&#8217; Group Writing Project, blogHelper offers great help on the subject of &#8220;Integrating a forum with WordPress&#8221;: One of the most popular questions I&#8217;m e-mailed with is usually along the lines of: How do I integrate a forum with my WordPress (WP) blog?. Often, this is with reference to using WP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":427,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/427\/blogoff-post-50-real-estate-weblogging-write-about-blogging\/","url_meta":{"origin":476,"position":0},"title":"Blogoff Post #50: Real estate weblogging? 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