blogHelper creates new guide for anyone that would like to see forum on WordPress blog. It was never easy to integrate good forum system with WordPress blog.
Text is about: Simple Machines Forum (SMF), Vanilla, bbPress, phpBB, PunBB and WordPress forum plugins such as: RS Discuss, XDForum. From my experience i would recommned PunBB as a great and simple forum system. I also use this simple forum plugin (easy to install): WP-Forum.
In their conclusion:
Personally, I prefer integrating external forum software. And if you are going down this path as well (like most people I’d wager), I suggest going with either SMF or Vanilla. On the one hand, backend integration on SMF is a breeze since there’s are two “bridge� plugins available, but guides on layout integration aren’t available. On the other hand, backend integration on Vanilla is more tedious, but documentation on integrating every aspect are available.
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Peter
i tried both ways: integrate by changing some functions and using same tables in db as written in a few places bout that, and using plugin. Personally i prefer everything to be made ideally, but if simplity and quick integration needed - plugin is the best way to solve that.