Many blog owners have started to build their own forums, both to foster a community around their niche and also to benefit from user-generated content and traffic. Although paid forum software like VBulettin would be the best choice if you had a proper budget, the easiest way to get a forum up and running is [...]

Want to have a forum for your blog? It can help your blog by increasing the rate of discussion and interaction on your blog. But if you are unable to use phpBB or not able to afford vBulletin then what should you do? All you can do then is go wordpress!
You can even add a [...]

Can you integrate a simple forum into your Wordpress blog and allow users to have the same login for the blog and the forum, all without messing around with Wordpress plugins and theme modifications?
Yes, you can. The answer, as I discovered on Lorelle’s blog, is NOT a Wordpress plugin.
It’s bbPress, another venture by the same [...]