What is the best forum plugin for WordPress?

[WebmasterWorkforce]

I want to add a forum to one of my WP sites. I've looked around at some of them (and even tested out a few) but am not sure which one I should go for.

Which forum plugin for WP do you guys think is the best one nowadays?

 

[CyberSEO]

Using Simpleress for about a year. It's not free anymore (you have to pay for essential extensions) and is extremely buggy. Can't say for the best one however.

 

[cgimaster]

If you dont care about functionalities then, you can go for bbpress which is also used on wordpress.

- Visit the WordPress Administration Screens and navigate to Plugins > Add New.
- Search for bbPress
- Locate the bbPress plugin and click install
- Activate the plugin

However I prefer using a real forum like phpbb or mybb or VB or IPB, you could use phpbb with wordpress plugin such as wordpress.org/extend/plugins/phpbb-single-sign-on/ to integrate it together, there was one for mybb too called wordbb I think but is discontinued, however in the community forum you can still get help to install it without problems but its a hassle

 

[genbii]

yes real forum is better

 

[medi8tor]

Vanilla Forum is by far the best forum software out there and has free plugin to hook up with wordpress!

 

[cgimaster]

Vanilla Forum is by far the best forum software out there and has free plugin to hook up with wordpress!

While I have never used vanilla forum I did check it out once they had a pretty cool design but afaik they arent very popular don't know about this days