bbpress vs Mingle

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  • June 13, 2014 at 4:26 pm #4182

    nasc
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    We have been using Mingle on a subdomain ever since we saw it being used for
    the Geotheme Forum. Why did you switch to bbpress? Compatibilty, features, security, format?

    I know it’s not up to you for support but any tips on what to do or not to do would be helpful. Was it much work to get the format looking like yours? Just
    a little pointing in the right direction.

    Thanks,

    June 13, 2014 at 6:41 pm #4190

    Paolo
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    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

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