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Hello vrrebels,

it should be relatively safe. There will be a lot of optimizations in the upcoming v1.0.10 release which should reduce the amount of database queries.

The difference between phpBB/smf and Asgaros Forum is the full integration in WordPress. It is not a standalone forum software and uses a lot of integrated features of WordPress (hooks, user management, widget for example).

Threads are stored in the same database where WordPress is installed but inside own tables (forum_posts, forum_threads, forum_forums). Only the forum-categories are saved as terms inside the WordPress term tables so they can be extended more easily. Changing your domain should not have any impact.

Thank you very much for your answer!

I want just to suggest you an amazing feature that I saw in big sites, this will require a lot of work probably but is really a “Nice to have” feature:

Have a forum “News”(for exemple) where all the post published go automatically there.

So you create a wordpress post and when you publish it the plugin automatically creates a thread in the forum “news” with the name as title post and in the content a link to the post.

Moreover it would be very nice if when people comments a post, the comment goes directly in the thread automatically created, like an answer to the previuosly created thread!

Maybe I’m dreaming but this could be a huge feature!

Thank you for your time ??

Yeah, maybe this could be something which can be added in a future release some day. I think the automatic creation of threads when you create a new post could be already possible when you hook in some of the WordPress core functions.

Something like:

add_action('after_create_post' 'create_forum_thread');
function create_forum_thread($some_args) {
    // author = some_args->author_id;
    // title = some_args->title;
    // content = some_args->content;
    // INSERT INTO wp_forums_thread (title, etc ...) WHERE wp_forums_forum.name = "News"
    // INSERT INTO wp_forums_post (content, author, time, etc ...)
}

This is only some pseudo-code but it should be possible. ??

I added it to the list:
https://github.com/Asgaros/asgaros-forum/issues/54