4-17-2010 Phorum Begins

So, as you might have noticed, my web site suddenly became all WordPress-ified this past winter.  Since then, I’ve worked on a few other sites in WordPress, too, and in general found it to be a very positive experience.  One of those sites is the site for my World of Warcraft guild, Team Venture.

One of the things that I ran into on a previous site was a general lack of solid forum software for WordPress.  Sure, there’s bbPress and Simple:Press but the former seems a little light of features and fairly difficult to theme while the latter is feature rich, but almost too much so, and equally difficult to integrate within an already existing customized appearance.

To that end, I’m gonna try to make my own.  Yeah, yeah; I know what you’re thinking.  Shocking that a programmer would want to try and re-create the wheel.  I recognize that it’s probably not necessarily the best use of my time to do so, but I’m treating it like a learning experience and as a way to help me blog a little bit more.

There’s a few other forum plugins beyond bbPress and Simple:Press, but oddly no one just went for the silly name of Phorum.  So, I’m totally going to call mine that.  I did some work on it today, but I’m going to talk about what I accomplished tomorrow in a separate post.  I just wanted to slap this one together this evening to put some thoughts into words.