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bbPress Complete

By : Rhys Wynne
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bbPress Complete

By: Rhys Wynne

Overview of this book

<p>Even with the rise of social media, forums remain a popular part of the Internet. bbPress allows you to increase interactivity with your WordPress website or blog by creating discussion forums within its confines.</p> <p>bbPress Complete will show you how to create and manage a forum effectively. You will learn how to manage users, expand your forum with plugins, and integrate your forum into the rest of your site, whether it is a local community forum or a large website with thousands of visitors.</p> <p>You will start off by learning the basics of bbPress and gradually acquire all the skills needed to run a successful bbPress community. You will learn how to integrate your forum effectively with the rest of your site, as well as how to manage the different kinds of users and much more. With clear, concise instructions detailing every aspect of the software, you will gain the knowledge required to extend bbPress using plugins and add bbPress to your WordPress theme. Furthermore, the real-world examples and clear instructions will give you all the tools you need to turn your blog into a successful community hub.</p>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
bbPress Complete
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Prerequisites for installing bbPress


At the time of writing in March 2013, bbPress 2.2.4 requires a Linux server with the following to run:

  • PHP Version 5.2.4 or higher

  • MySQL Version 5.0 or higher

It is also recommended that a server has Apache with mod_rewrite installed; however, this is not a necessity. Don't worry too much about these requirements as an e-mail to your web host, or any potential web host should give you this information. However, many Linux-based web hosts run these services as standard.

At the time of writing, the requirements for bbPress are exactly the same as WordPress, so if you are running the latest version of WordPress, you can run bbPress.