I am Sofia and I am working at [link removed], We were wondering if it would be valuable for our website to create a forum.
We want to be more in touch with our customers and create a community.
We want to have a phpbb board along with our wp blog. Would that be easy?
Thanks in advance for any valuable answer and the time spend for it.
I suppose “easy” depends on the skill set available. phpBB is standalone and, in this case, would be in it’s own folder and not affected by WP but your server installation would need to meet the phpBB requirements. I suggest you have a read of the installation guide. Also, if you feel the need to ‘integrate’ phpBB & WP, there are bridges available on the WP site.
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Arising question would be.. Why to use 2 standalone (separate/different.. have almost nothing in common) platforms on same project?
End result would be double time spending on maintaining it all (updates/upgrades/edits & whatnot), using bridge to sync dbs (extra addition), design issues (for example navigation), finding the cause of random or not so random issues/bugs & not to mention adding content.
Of course there is a way to create/request blog extension for phpbb, that would make life a little easier, but it doesn't mean, that it would solve everything.
If it sounds easy/doable then it should answer your question.
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If you try to integrate the two then you're asking for difficulty though there are tools to allow you to do that. If you have it just as a subdirectory or subdomain and they have separate accounts then it shouldn't be too difficult.
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