Absolutely Phenomenal Forum Software!
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We just finished upgrading our community of 42,000 members and almost 400,000 posts from bbPress and GD bbPress Toolbox over to WPForo.
While the configuration, profile syncing and migration can be a bit tricky, the end result is nothing short of spectacular.
The experience is more modern, faster and mobile friendly compared with bbPress. The configurability on types of forums (threaded, vs QA, etc) gives a lot of flexibility, and the widgets load fast and look good.
It solves the biggest problem anyone who has used bbPress on a large forum has – threaded posts don’t paginate so you end up with huge pages that take forever to load. Loading time for these pages went down from minutes on bbPress to seconds on WPForo.
The default styles they offer look good, and there’s enough flexibility to cover the basic customizations needed. Some more advanced customizations need you to add to php (such as showing most recent replies first under a topic), but I’ve been able to find answers for how to accomplish most of what we needed.
The only thing I’d say is lacking is the responsiveness of support. The free plugin is supported by a community forum, which is generally fine. And the paid addons have their own dedicated support which is fast. What is lacking is support for folks who have paid for all the addons but need support on the base features.
In the grand scheme of things, this is a relatively minor drawback and doesn’t stop me from wholeheartedly recommending wpForo to anyone looking to setup a forum.
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