Title: Basic, solid forum solution
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Basic, solid forum solution

 *  [.gabriel.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabriel-1/)
 * (@gabriel-1)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-solid-forum-solution/)
 * We’ve been using bbPress for a couple months and have been pleased with it. We
   migrated from vBulletin 4.x, as we were looking for a much simpler forum solution
   that was well integrated with WordPress and would cut down on spam registrations/
   posts. The importer for vBulletin that was included with bbPress 2.3 worked for
   moving over users and about 1500 posts.
 * Allowing anonymous posting in bbPress has worked well for us (“Allow guest users
   without accounts to create topics and replies”), which makes it very similar 
   to WordPress comments. Akismet does an excellent job with spam topics/replies,
   and we also use a couple plugins: _bbPress Moderation_ (hides topics/replies 
   pending validation), and _bbPress reCaptcha_. We also use _bbPress Genesis Extend_
   plugin, which is essential if you are using a Genesis child theme.

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