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This is a big change from the old forums, which were made with bbPress. This new forum is made with Discourse.

I thought the user experience on the old forum was really bad and that switching to a more modern software could make a difference in terms of having more people discussing seasteading. A few months ago, I started convincing The Seasteading Institute to switch their forums to Discourse. They agreed and so I helped them install and configure Discourse. I am glad that the new forum is now online. I hope that many ancaps in this subreddit will sign up and participate in the discussions!

I see that your screenshot has a "forum" section.

WordPress by itself doesn't have such capabilities, but there is a sister project called bbPress: https://bbpress.org/, which is used to create forums (from the creators of WordPress).

So then you should pick a theme that has your desired layout and design, and then use an additional plugin to integrate a forum widget/block into your main website. Technically these will be two different parts of the same website, powered by different software.

I hope this helps.

Guy who created and runs LANPartyList.com here.

I would recommend looking at https://bbpress.org/ for combined User/News/Forum/VIP/Gallery/Pages system.

LAN Party List (and it's previous iterations) are fully integrated solutions from scratch, but if I were to do it all over again I would expand on a pre-existing system, because it took years of my own time as a volunteer to build it all and polish it.

A ticketing/reserved seating system alone is a big undertaking (months of volunteer part time development, if they finish it). So unless you have thousands of dollars to pay professional developers I would start small and plan to add more features as you go.

Also remember, paper is infinitely scalable: Not pretty but for one-off events and limited resources, you're likely better off doing things manually at first.

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For a pre-made seating system you could try http://www.lanreg.org

WordPress' obvious vulnerabilities?

"Shortcomings", fine. But, vulnerabilities? It's the most widely used "CMS" so it's the most widely attacked, but it's not inherently vulnerable. If you know what you're doing and don't just download 40 plugins and a random ThemeForest theme, you're fine.

I'm not familiar with wpForo, but there's also bbPress for WordPress which is pretty decent. I believe it's also an Automattic-backed product, which means that there are at least some (outdated) standards behind it, and there will be every attempt made to keep it compatible with the WP Core.

This can't always be said for third-party plugins.

You might look into BuddyPress (social network plugin) and bbPress (forum plugin). BuddyBoss has themes that work with both these plugins.

A word of advice though, these are not plug-and-play plugins. You will have to mess around with a lot of the configuration and jump into the code to get exactly what you want. These are also resource intensive plugins, so you'll want a fairly robust server.

I searched for that on the Weebly app page, but nothing comes up. Looking at the page bbPress.org now... do they allow users to add photos and be able to search topics, comments, etc??

Yes, this will be a WordPress website. You will get a bunch of extras like essential plugins, optimizations, and a theme.

For forums, you will need a plugin called bbpress, which is the most popular wp plugin for forums. Bbpress is compatible with Elementor (which like I said, is included in our setup) - so you will be able to visually edit it too.

https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/mafia303/

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bbPress is the official, but man is it hard to get answers out of Automattic as to when 2.6 will be officially released (it's been in development for years, RC since a year or two ago). Even in a thread where the lead discusses it, he's still vague about release (dev tracker shows 99% done).

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/is-bbpress-being-maintained/

Thanks for the info - is it a gut feeling, or does there appear to be movement on 2.6 development. Seems like it got shunted aside in favor of Gutenberg and a few other things.

Do you have any knowledge of actual changes in 2.6?

I've read this thread from over 2 years ago - https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-6-beta/ and it details some things, but when I look at other documents/threads, some of those things were pushed out to 2.7 (which we will probably not see, based on how slow 2.6 has happened).

It is possible that Bluehost is doing some type of caching, which prevents you from seeing the changes right away. Try contacting your hosting support to see if that is a possible cause.

For bbpress specific help, you may want to try https://bbpress.org/forums/

> I'm only looking for a forum

Only a forum?

Yeah, I responded a few minutes ago, and didn’t catch this. I thought you were talking about actually replicating the whole functionality of that hypebeast.com site, and not just a forum. You might actually want to link to the forum specifically next time, instead of the site as a whole.

With regards to a forum, /u/manintulsa is correct - phpbb should meet your needs.

Or, if you are going to integrate it with an existing WordPress site, use one that is meant to integrate with WordPress. Say, bbpress or BuddyPress.

• you can use php or javascript for this to automate a lot of the data as per days I believe. I don't see manual entry to be sustainable in the long run unless you have a community of people to maintain it.

• Ok but try to make sure that your data is stored somewhere like in excel so if you happen to learn ajax coding and re-code it, the transition will be easier

• CSS is easy to learn, good luck. wordpress is probably easier and more modern than smarty, and has a huge plugin library / knowledgebase to really help out your website. Eg forum plugin bbpress that embeds into your site https://bbpress.org/about/examples/ and then there's also buddypress a huge community-based plugin.

If you are looking to use WordPress and want to setup a blog and forum then your answer is bbPress. It is a forum plugin built by the same team which is behind WordPress itself.

There are plenty of plugins and themes for bbPress that will make your community happy. Plugins are available here and themes here.

bbPress installation is no different than it is for any other WordPress plugin. Few clicks and you are good to go.

This is a big change from the old forums, which were made with bbPress. This new forum is made with Discourse.

I thought the user experience on the old forum was really bad and that switching to a more modern software could make a difference in terms of having more people discussing seasteading. A few months ago, I started convincing The Seasteading Institute to switch their forums to Discourse. They agreed and so I helped them install and configure Discourse. I am glad that the new forum is now online. I hope that many seasteaders in this subreddit will sign up and participate in the discussions!

If you're interested in creating a mobile version of it with little work, install the WordPress plug-in WP Touch. Free and works in seconds. http://www.wptouch.com

In the long term you may prefer to get a responsive theme though. Right now it's a bit awkward to navigate on mobile.

Also, in case you didn't know, you can add forum features without too much pain with BB Press: https://bbpress.org

That would enable the site to grow beyond articles into discussion. Might be good to have that ready (assuming that's what you want) in case the hammer falls when we least expect it.