Matt Bowcock // mbowcock.com » projects http://www.mbowcock.com Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:21:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Fenway Forum Pt.2 http://www.mbowcock.com/projects/fenway-forum-pt2/ http://www.mbowcock.com/projects/fenway-forum-pt2/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:31:58 +0000 matt http://www.mbowcock.com/projects/fenway-forum-pt2/ I mentioned in my previous post that I was testing some software for Fenway Forum - well I played with bbpress and while I liked it I ended up deleting it and just installing wordpress.  I figure its so hard to get a true forum to critical mass where it is somewhat self sustaining – that I would be better served creating posts in wordpress.  If I need to in the future I can always add bbpress and integrate with wordpress.

I also had the thought of allowing anyone to register in wordpress and give new members a “contributor” role.  This would allow them to contribute new posts – but they would need to be approved by an admin (me).  This would allow users to create new posts and other uses to post comments just like “true” forum apps – all whithin the comfort of wordpress.  We’ll see how it goes.

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