Adding Forums To Your Blogs

For me, in terms of easy of use and security, and extensibility through the thriving community plugins, is Vanilla (http://www.getvanilla.com)

It's blog-like in its approach and is a thing of sheer beauty!

I like the configurable sidebar elements such as 'browsing history', keeps a tab on discussions you're viewing.

I spent on $500 on a songwriting blog and found I just didn't have the time. The PR also dropped from 4 to 2, so I couldn't even monetize with Text Link Ads like I'd planned. (This might have been due to the DreamHost fiasco where they blocked Googlebot from access sites hosted on their servers, but maybe not.) I also had to turn on confirmation for signups because the forum was getting spammed with pr0n, and there were kids on the forum.

Anyway, there are three days left on the hosting and I'm salvaging the owned vBulletin and the domain name, hopefully to sell them off. But I will never buy another forum. The amount effort required to boost it to a profitable level requires someone younger than me and moderators in strategic time zones.

Anyone want to buy a domain? Free vBulletin owned license thrown in. (Support ends shortly, though.)

1. What forum software do you recommend for both its ease of use and its rock-solid security?

bbPress if you've got a WP blog, vbBulletin or vanilla otherwise.

2. How do you handle moderation?

Get readers to pitch in.

3. Do you think that discussion forums can compliment a blog and help create a larger regular readership? Or do the blog comments suffice? Is there too much overlap in functionality?

Forums allow you to scale back on the blogging and focus on doing quality posts - one a day or one every other day.

4. Do you think that adding a forum is worth the effort for bloggers? Some of the time? All of the time?

If your blog can help kick start it, then yes. Forums always help, simply because people are used to forums more than they are used to blogs (and even contribution-based blogs like Drupal and, in some cases, WP, aren't as intuitive as forums).

Made the mistake of going with SMF back in the early days, and the forum is too long in the tooth to migrate it. No problems with spam, because you send second-level verification email. Most spammers don't bother going any further.

The user-generated content thing is a great idea in principle, but what totally sucks is that they're completely ignorant of any kind of SEO - titles, names and anything identifiable are generally ignored in favour of conversational writing. It drives me nuts, because you have these great conversations going on that no-one will ever find because they're missing any kind of identifiable keywords!!!.

We've only recently started using moderators, but it really does help. Not so viable on a new forum, because you haven't got trust built up with the members, but maybe a few friends helping out would be useful.

bbPress if you've got a WP blog

Ahmed, I've heard that bbPress is still too immature as a forum platform. Have you heard likewise?

Ryan - i like the simplicity. I'm about to launch one based on bbPress for one of my blogs, and IMO forums are about conversations, and bbPress is quite focused on the basics, so for me its' good.

depends on what you 'need' the forum for - if you're going for bling you might want to go for vbbulletin.

A week ago I started a forum/social network hosted on ning.com. I've got enough of a reader base to possibly build a strong forum. Since it is on the topic of astrology, there's ample room for users to talk about zodiac compatibility issues that I have not touched on in my blog, and hopefully if there is enough participation, I can monetize it. Unfortunately, ning requires you to pay $20 to use your own Google ads.

I promote the forum after each post if possible, e.g., "discuss Taurus-Gemini compatibility in the forum." Sometimes I fear that readers won't know when it is appropriate to just comment on my post rather than go to the forum, and frankly, I haven't figured that out myself. I don't want to discourage blog comments in favor of the forum.

...is not a bad way to go, if you can learn some coding to thwart spammers.
The benefit is phenomenal search engine indexing.

The way I handle most moderation is by creating a "private forum", where anything goes.
Rather than deleting threads and posts, they get "moved" to the "Saloon"- where it is moderation by community.
As in- you reap what you sow.

I opened forums using PhpBB (came as a one click install with Dreamhost) and works very well. But the major problem was lots of spam. So much time was wasted for spam moderation (and finding relevant content) that in a few months I had to shut them down.

As Ahmed said "Get readers to pitch in." is a good idea for moderation, and if you can put in the time and effort, it is worth it.

If you don't want to start a forum you could exchange links with a few active ones. Let them repost your content ( with links ) within the forums, you might be suprised with the results.

The funny thing about SMF is that after all these years, the last time I check about a month ago, it is still not creating SEO friendly links.

vBulleitn is the king of forum scripts as far as I am concerned. For sure their support is the best in the business. I've used vb on my sites for years. Never once have I asked for help and been left stranded. It's easy to install and use, both for the admin and user. It integrates with a few other programs I use, PhotoPost PHP Pro, PhotoPost Classifieds and ReviewPost PHP Pro.

I am using vBadvanced as a portal right now. vBadvanced will be replaced by WordPress, as I see WordPress much more than a blogging script. vBulletin is currently working on a blogging script of their own. It will be interesting to see how it stacks up to WordPress.

Over at vBulletin.org a few threads have been started regarding the integration of vb and WordPress. At the moment there is a bridge that allows both vb and WordPress to work together, however I understand that there are flaws, so I am waiting for a more stable integration solution.

One more thing, I have tried many forum scripts, some of the free ones, just about all of the paid ones and I always come back to vBulletin.

If anyone hears of an integration solutioin for vBulletin and WordPress, could they post it on this site.

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