If you are searching for the best forum software that this is definitely for you, After the huge with blogging software, Now WordPress is into forum board software named bbpress . bbPress is plain and simple forum software. It’s easy to use, easy to administrate, fast and also clean. It has some more powerful features and is highly customizable. The advantage wil lbe for the wordpress bloggers as you will have the feel of wordpress every where.
Features
1. Open Source, always and forever
2. Less (code) is more
3. Simplicity is a feature
4. Speed and security are the foundation of any good user experience
5. Put the user first
Requirements
* PHP version 4.3 or greater
* MySQL version 4.0 or greater
* Apache Or Litespeed is recommended
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