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Forums on Joomla

There are tons of plug-ins that you can install with Joomla to get a good, integrated forum. I would recommend that you experiment around with a few on a test site that runs the same version of Joomla as your production site before you go into full production. As a general rule, if it’s a forum, look for something that is included in Joomla rather than a bridge between Joomla and a stand-alone forum package, such as phpBB or something like that.

My favorite two forums for Joomla are probably Kunena:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/communication/forum/7256

Or Agora:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/communication/forum/1891

Whatever forum package that you choose, don’t forget you’ll have to match up the template/theme with that of your forum software (especially if it’s phpBB or something like that). And if you can, lock your forum down with captcha or emailing links to users that are signing up to get them to activate their account. This will help to keep the pesky bots from turning your forum into a den of spam.