Comments on: WordPress WP-Forum plugin security vulnerability http://wpgarage.com/shorties/wordpress-wp-forum-plugin-security-vulnerability/ wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:35:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Is WordPress’ security vulnerable at its core? | Wordpress Garage http://wpgarage.com/shorties/wordpress-wp-forum-plugin-security-vulnerability/comment-page-1/#comment-37345 Is WordPress’ security vulnerable at its core? | Wordpress Garage Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:11:19 +0000 http://wordpressgarage.com/shorties/wordpress-wp-forum-plugin-security-vulnerability/#comment-37345 [...] WordPress blog, users can edit other users’ drafts. WordPress development also mentions the vulnerability in the WP-Forum plugin that I mentioned recently. This is the first time that I’ve seen WordPress themselves mention [...] [...] WordPress blog, users can edit other users’ drafts. WordPress development also mentions the vulnerability in the WP-Forum plugin that I mentioned recently. This is the first time that I’ve seen WordPress themselves mention [...]

]]> By: Ryan http://wpgarage.com/shorties/wordpress-wp-forum-plugin-security-vulnerability/comment-page-1/#comment-999 Ryan Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:58:36 +0000 http://wordpressgarage.com/shorties/wordpress-wp-forum-plugin-security-vulnerability/#comment-999 I find SMF is the easiest forum to integrate with WordPress. There is a bridge to integrate the usernames and the SMF SSI.php file is quite handy for displaying forum data in other parts of the blog. I have a test blog with an SMF forum built at ryanhellyer.net/test/flytrapgrowing_beta1/forum/. I've set it up so that the blog posts are controlled by SMF and appear in the forum as well as on each post. It's still quite buggy at this stage, but it's a proof of concept at least. The big advantage of using a plugin is that they presumably tie into your WordPress theme quite nicely, whereas SMF needs to be quite heavily reskinned or it will look very out of place. SMF also has a lot of extraneous junk which you may not want for a simple forum, so you need to remove all that too which you wouldn't need to do with a WordPress plugin as they're likely to be quite basic straight out of the box. In theory I would have thought that bbPress would be a perfect candidate for integration with WordPress, but I found the integration between the two wasn't particularly well polished so I gave up on it. Perhaps things will improve in future versions, but at this stage it seems a little too simple for it's own good and the quality of some of the plugins in the official bbPress plugins directory is very poor (lots of bugs, errors etc). I find SMF is the easiest forum to integrate with WordPress. There is a bridge to integrate the usernames and the SMF SSI.php file is quite handy for displaying forum data in other parts of the blog.

I have a test blog with an SMF forum built at ryanhellyer.net/test/flytrapgrowing_beta1/forum/. I’ve set it up so that the blog posts are controlled by SMF and appear in the forum as well as on each post. It’s still quite buggy at this stage, but it’s a proof of concept at least.

The big advantage of using a plugin is that they presumably tie into your WordPress theme quite nicely, whereas SMF needs to be quite heavily reskinned or it will look very out of place. SMF also has a lot of extraneous junk which you may not want for a simple forum, so you need to remove all that too which you wouldn’t need to do with a WordPress plugin as they’re likely to be quite basic straight out of the box.

In theory I would have thought that bbPress would be a perfect candidate for integration with WordPress, but I found the integration between the two wasn’t particularly well polished so I gave up on it. Perhaps things will improve in future versions, but at this stage it seems a little too simple for it’s own good and the quality of some of the plugins in the official bbPress plugins directory is very poor (lots of bugs, errors etc).

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