Tony Brewer

Forums are a great way to communicate and share, there has been free ones like phbb in use for some time all around the web. Many communities have sprung up and thrive with the free phbb software which is easy to set up and use. There are great premium forums software scripts as well including vbulletin which has paid plugins and lots of support around that. Some time ago Automattic released bbpress which is a simple forum software script from the makers of wordpress. I have spent some time with it and found it to be easy to install, simple to use and there are many free plugins being developed for it as well. If you need a quick and easy forum setup take a look into bbpress.

It was pretty, I must say that I really like the new wordpress 2.5.

I only got to spend a few minutes with it, but the layout is nice, and I love the new full screen post view. It’s also got built in video and audio upload capability, and it can now upload multiple pictures at once and create thumbnail galleries fast.

I think they have a real hit on their hands with this version. I would perhaps have included a button to return to the classic admin view, if only temporary for finding some things that are in different places, but all in all with this version of worpdress you can see why the whole thing was such a good investment from so many people. Thanks guys (and girls!).