bbpress

Just installed WordPress 2.3... begrudgingly. I really had no desire to, but since I was already a couple version behind, I thought, what the hell.

WordPress 2.3 really didn't have anything new for me. Sure, it has tagging, but I use (err, used) Ultimate Tag Warrior and loved it.

And WordPress 2.3 likes to break some installs on upgrades. I just edited my contact page and I got an error. The contact form itself works, but editing the page was a pain.

bbPress finally gets children forums.

Forums can now be grouped hierarchically (that is, forums can have “children”). To organize your forums, go to Content -> Forums in your bbPress’ admin panels, click “Edit Forum Order” and drag the rows around: up, down, left and right.

Created a little plugin for bbPress that lets you change the size of the words in the tagcloud.

And that's all it does.

(And this is odd since not not even sure if I'm going to switch to bbPress. But it done and released.)

The text of it is here. It can also be downloaded here (zip file).

Not 100% sure that it's 100% accurate or that it'll be current, but here's the Ultimate bbPress Guide.

There are also a couple links there to plugins that may help in the database sharing with WordPress.

From the bbPress development blog.

bbPress is the forum software created by the folks at wordpress and has been running the wordpress support forums for ages.

It's simple and fast and integrates with WordPress. It's not your standard phpBB type script though. It's topic-centric (focusing on the new topics, similar to Vanilla) instead of forum-centric (phpBB, etc.).

Worth checking out.