I asked myself the question many times, what is the best forum to add to his blog on Wordpress. Well I will not install them all on my personal blog to give you the opportunity to see what is the best but I'll tell you what I think just share my experience on each of them except one Only it seems.

They are five in number, all plugins to enable:

• Wp-forum - Example
• BBPress - Example
• Simple Forum - Example
• Xdforum - Example
• RsDiscuss (one I have not tested) - Example

D'ore already and my hand just a forum seems to be the best forum available to date for Wordpress. It can resume without any problems using the membership base of your blog. URL rewriting does not appear yet implemented a shame, because this is a big black spot in terms of readability and referencing. The use of avatar (plugin gravatar2 or imported image) to illustrate your words is possible. The French language is also available and has been translated by Lawrence Carroll, thanks to him. You will find a very detailed description of this plugin forum is strangely little about him compared to others. Functionalities Simple Forum

My second choice would be rather then XdForum which now has multiple developers responsible for improving and compatibility with older versions of Wordpress is still guaranteed even if he strongly encourages users to migrate to faster 2.x. For those who appreciate the url rewriting, Xdforum supports it in its latest version and it works pretty well. 3 types of text editors are available Quicktags, Smarty, FCKeditor. He also joined the membership base and knows how to manage user profiles from the website. Avatars are also present. The team is still seeking a translator for the French version uses the same system with the wordpress files and Mo Po

BBPress now is meanwhile supported by the developers of Wordpress just that and inevitably, it weighs in the balance. We like its simplicity of use, the Tag system, the ability to view messages unanswered questions unresolved. One can also see a detailed profile of a user and the latest subjects in which he participated. The administration interface provides statistics allows to declare moderators or alias Bozo spammers. Finally, a feature many forums lack is that which allows you to add a story from a list of favorites.
I have not tested the version of WP-Forum, so if there are opinions on the latter, they are welcome.