Vanilla Forums
Vanilla is a powerfully simple discussion forum you can easily customize to make as unique as your community. (by vanilla)
BuddyPress
BuddyPress DEVELOPMENT repo. This repository is just a mirror of the development SVN at https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request. (by buddypress)
| Vanilla Forums | BuddyPress | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 15 | |
| 2,977 | 244 | |
| 0.0% | -0.4% | |
| 4.4 | 7.6 | |
| 3 months ago | 5 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Vanilla Forums
Posts with mentions or reviews of Vanilla Forums.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-23.
- Ask HN: What forum software do you recommend?
- Are Vanilla Forums OSS having problems?
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Best way to create a community website
For something simple, I'd look into bbpress. For something more complex (but that can still integrate with WordPress, check out Xenforo (my favorite) or Vanilla.
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Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
(Not sure if the latest version supports digest emails though)
https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla
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16/30 Google results contain SQL injection vulnerabilities
I’m a tech lead for Vanilla Forums (recently acquired by Higher Logic).
We have a few PHP positions open (remote or onsite). The core product is open source https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla
If your looking to stick with PHP you can check the open positions. https://www.higherlogic.com/about/company/jobs/
BuddyPress
Posts with mentions or reviews of BuddyPress.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-19.
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Any easy way for users to register in wordpress and can upload text, images, links etc facebook style?
BuddyPress - https://buddypress.org/
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Looking for Facebook/Nextdoor alternative for Civic League
The final thought that comes to mind is BuddyPress, a plugin for WordPress sites. A pretty decent option if you already have a WordPress site setup.
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Child care - matching parents with foster parents
As you're building a community site to allow parents and foster parents to create their own user profiles and potentially interact with each other, buddypress can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you.
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Best way to create a community website
I'd probably be remiss if I didn't also mention buddypress, which some like for creating a social/community space based on WordPress. I much prefer a forum, but you should at least look into buddypress a little.
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Can Wordpress help me make a blog (image below explains) where users can select topics they’re interested in, add these topics to their profiles, have a calendar with important dates, author profiles and more. The image will explain more
Yes you can make the site in Wordpress. Some development work needed for sure. Please check Buddypress https://buddypress.org/ This a free plugin by Automattic.
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New theme system is incoming! Basically you can create iOS & Android mobile apps or even Windows & MacOS programs with.. a WordPress Theme! You can self-host your data in your server.
My long-term plan: Adding BuddyPress support ( https://buddypress.org/ ) so basically wordpress+quasar social system with groups, forums, private chats etc. Adding WooCommerce support ( https://woocommerce.com/ ) so e-commerce..
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New theme system is incoming! Basically you can create iOS & Android mobile apps or even Windows & MacOS programs with.. a WordPress Theme!
Adding BuddyPress support ( https://buddypress.org/ ) so basically wordpress+quasar social system with groups, forums, private chats etc.
- Any ideas for the self hosted portal: L&D, news, team structure with AD integration?
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Ask HN: Is there a self-hosted alternative to Facebook Groups?
You can try Buddypress for WordPress, it should be easy to make a small fb clone. https://buddypress.org/
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Nextdoor replacement?
I've never used either, but there's BBpress and BuddyPress from the makers of WordPress: https://bbpress.org/ https://buddypress.org/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Vanilla Forums and BuddyPress you can also consider the following projects:
Flarum - Simple forum software for building great communities.
Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Elgg - A social networking engine in PHP/MySQL
HumHub - HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.