We used Mingle for GeoTheme because I was familiar with it and I wasn’t with bbpress 3 years ago. We were in hurry to release our 1st product and we didn’t even develop the theme used to sell GT.
GeoDirectory took a long while to
While developing GD we took woocommerce, buddypress and also bbpress as examples to follow for our our plugin. As I wrote it in our about page, mainly for 4 reasons:
1) They are free, available through wordpress.org and actively maintained
2) They can easily be extended, thanks to a massive use of hooks and filters
3) They can be integrated in most themes through the use of templates hierarchy
4) Building dedicated themes and extensions for them is faster, easier and can be a good business for other developers too
Add the fact that bbpres is an official wordpress tool and it’s used on wordpress.org too.
Now that I know bbpress inside out, I know for sure that I’ll never use any other forum plugin again…
Thx
Paolo 10 years, 7 months ago.
