Does WordPress provide its own Forum Software

[hemalkapadia]

I would like to add a Forum in my WordPress weblog so do you provide a Forum software which can be activated through admin/dashboard

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Not really. That is, WordPress’s sister project, bbPress ( http://bbpress.org ), is a forum software made by Akismet and can be hooked into WordPress, but it is a separate application. This forum is bbPress.

As for plugins, there’s WP Forum and other similar things. See http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/tags/forum

[vgaman]

Simple Press forum?
http://simplepressforum.com/
I never used it but heard quite a few happy reports. It works like a super plugin for WordPress.
Sincerely I would go with third party forum software – forums are great for building community and just in case your forum will grow huge – it would be awful challenging to switch to more robust softwares.
vBulletin anyone?

V.