Mingle Forum has been modified to be lightweight, solid, secure, quick to setup, easy to use, and best of all it now integrates seamlessly with or without the Mingle social networking plugin (by Blair Williams). The mission of Mingle Forum is, to KEEP IT SIMPLE There are a handful of Forum Plugins for WordPress available but theyre either super buggy, difficult to install, or so bloated with features and settings that its a nightmare setting them up. Dont do that to yourself!!! You can be up and running with Mingle Forum fully installed and configured in as little as 5 minutes.
Features
NEW! Integrates with the Mingle Plugin (by Blair Williams) NOTE: The Mingle plugin is NOT required for forum to work
Works with Mingle Avatars
Works with Mingle Profiles (with/without Pretty Profile URLs enabled in Mingle settings)
Activity in the forum shows up as activity in Mingle (Helps increase discussion in both your forums and your SN)
Deleted forum topics will also delete the corresponding Mingle board post
Wordpress 3.0 ready!
Categories with sub-forums
User Groups
NEW! User Levels (EX: Newbie, Beginner, Advanced, Pro)
NEW! Private Messages (I would recommend turning this feature off and using my new Cartpauj PM Plugin instead as it is MUCH better!)
Moderators
NEW! Skins
Captcha
BB Code
Custom Forum Search (Some users are having issues with the search function)
Guest posts
NEW! Hot/Very Hot topics
NEW! Sticky (Pinned) Topics
NEW! Move, Edit, Remove and Close topics
Email notifications on replies to topics
Recent posts widget (or PHP shortcode for your theme)
Integrates nicely with most themes (Its tough to make it work for all themes so some skin modifications may be required for your site)
Allow/Dis-allow other users to view your profile from the Forum
NEW! Supports different languages
Demo: http://cartpauj.com/forum/
Plugin homepage: http://cartpauj.com/projects/