Post edited 9:15 PM – July 21, 2011 by Gio

It took some time to do it properly but now the community forum is finally ready. This is something that has been requested very early on by some of you but I needed time in order to implement it seamlessly with this blog. Many forum softwares work independently from the structure of the main website forcing you to have two different registrations, one for the blog and one for forum. This would look very disconnected so I searched for other solutions and I eventually opted for SimplePress, a great open source plugin completely integrated with WordPress. One login to rule them all.

This means that you will be able to use the same account to comment the blog posts or write in the forum. You can register and login from the forum interface, from the wordpress login or from the login box in the right sidebar of the blog page. They all point to the same database and they are equivalent.

Everything seems to work pretty well but feel free to contact me if you are having technical problems or if you have suggestions to improve things (design, features, forum topics, etc). Everyone is invited to join, I believe in free speech and I will not censor any opinion you might have, even when I disagree. As you probably already know, I'm not a big fan of strict moderation and this forum will always be open to your ideas. This is a community forum and we will make it better together.

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Thanks guys!