IAMWW » software http://iamww.com Personal site of Will Wilkins Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:46:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Theme Support Forum Recommendations http://iamww.com/2007/12/forum-recommendations/ http://iamww.com/2007/12/forum-recommendations/#comments Tue, 01 Jan 2008 04:14:24 +0000 Will Wilkins http://iamww.com/2007/12/forum-recommendations/ I am looking to create a forum site to use in supporting my WordPress themes.

So far I have looked over bbPress, PunBB, Vanilla and Simple Machines Forum (SMF).

The requirements for the forum software:

  • Easy to use (for admin and users)
  • Easy to theme or style
  • Search capabilities
  • Easily integrates with CMS solution (TXP, WP, etc.)
  • Clean URLs would be a plus

PunBB seems to have a lot of features and I have seen a lot of people I respect using it. I have only tried a demo of SMF, but I have heard some good things about it. Vanilla seems fairly simple. However, I have heard the Vanilla template engine is kind of a pain to work with. I honestly wanted to use bbPress, just because of its ties with WordPress. Can you tell I am frustrated by the rambling?

Has anyone built or used a forum and have any suggestions on which forum software to use? Any opinions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

]]> http://iamww.com/2007/12/forum-recommendations/feed/ 13 Cross-Platform Multi-Protocol Instant Messaging Client – Instantbird http://iamww.com/2007/10/cross-platform-multi-protocol-instant-messaging-client-instantbird/ http://iamww.com/2007/10/cross-platform-multi-protocol-instant-messaging-client-instantbird/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:11:34 +0000 Will Wilkins http://iamww.com/2007/10/cross-platform-multi-protocol-instant-messaging-client-instantbird/ Instantbird – A cross-platform multi-protocol open source instant messaging client built. I don’t think I will give up Adium for it.

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