@Danny-McWilliams Wow wee bit of a journey you had there. looks like you managed to retain enough of your community though to keep your forums viable which is good going.

I'm not a football fan (though I pretend to support Motherwell/Arsenal - won't catch me watching them play) but there are a healthy variety of topics with active conversations on your forum.

Have you had a look for a Wordpress theme centred around forums? I haven't either but there are all sorts of themes on Themeforest, and they rarely cost more than USD $50.

@DevPre I don't mind that there aren't many plugins because plugins are the main reason BBPress is so bad. Many of them are abandoned and forgotten by their creators. As a result when WordPress or a plugin is updated there are frequent problems caused by something to do with BBPress that takes ages to pin down.

NodeBB's large number of Plugins worry me, especially because I can find no reference to plugin quality control.

Hi @Danny-McWilliams I had a look at your Scottish football forums and NodeBB is working well and looking good.

I saw that you switched from Vanill and that it caused you problems. I only came across NodeBB this evening and until then had been considering switching from BBPress in my WordPress site to either Vanilla/Discourse/VB (though I'm considering NodeBB now too).

May I ask what issues you had with Vanilla?

Thanks

Hello,

I use BBPress and BuddyPress on my WordPress site but BBPress is pretty awful in large part because of its abandoned plugins.

I'm looking for a replacement and am considering Vanilla/Discourse/VB. Esentially after my nightmare with BBPress I just want something that works and that I don't need to devote many hours to fixing. I came across Node on the Discourse forums this evening and have been looking at it for the past couple of hours.

Firstly, I love how NodeBB looks so it's a tick for aesthetics, and for functionality too.

I have a few questions on Node. There is not much information on it on https://nodebb.org and no mention of BBPress at all. Can you easily migrate from BBPress to NodeBB? Do they have a tool/plugin for this?

Node has a lot of plugins. Are they carefully managed and approved before being issued? Plugins are one of the main reasons why BBPress works so badly.

Does anyone know of any WordPress sites that use NodeBB?

Many thanks