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Before getting to the name a quick update to all those people who have been asking about the status of Simple Forum Version 3. Yes - it’s a little on the late side. I had hoped to release before the end of January. But the good news is that it is code complete and the number of bugs or problems we are finding with the new code are declining swiftly. I very much expect to have it running my support forum in the next couple of days - at the latest the weekend - which is one of the best tests it can have.
So - back to the name. A few weeks ago I was sent a link to Simple Forum. Stunned, I was, to discover that there is actually a commercial web forum software package that goes by the same name as my humble WordPress plugin. I debated whether I should change the name of mine and then basically forgot about it again. Until this week, when a security vulnerability notice was posted against this other product and some people immediately figured they were talking about mine. Even one of the sites who raised the notice put a comment on my plugin page with the foreboding message ‘Beware’! This was plain stupidity of course and showed an amazing lack of judgement. But it is there and I responded to it and the guy went very quiet.
But it bought back into focus the question of whether I should or should not change the name. And to be totally honest - I just can’t make up my mind.
Maybe I will. Then again… maybe I won’t. But if anyone has any good ideas - do please email them to me.
How about Andy’s Retirment Project?
Hi Andy, what about "Simple Press Forum" or "Simple WP Forum" ?
Anyway, thanks a lot for all the Yellow Stuff.
Alex
I’ll throw ‘em in the hat - thanks.
As to retirement projects… I reckong I can think up som ebetter ones
I was thinking the same thing as Alex, WPForum would be a cool name and it would be descriptive
Or some combination of the words Simple, WordPress, WP and forum as that would make it obvious that it was a forum for wordpress and that it was a remake of Simple forum.
WP forum would be Ok except there is already a forum plugin of that name! Fairly popular I believe as well.
i liked the Simple Wordpress Forum because it tells you what you get. A simple wordpress forum that is amazingly good.
WordpressBB / WPBB / SWPB / YSBB (as in ‘yellow swordfish bulletin board’) / SSBB.. Just mess about with the words that make sense to you..
wordpress, swordfish, forum, bulletin board, yellow, simple, new etc..
Cool, I’ll be looking forward to this!
gaming forum
Forum Press Would have been better?
@MintTree
Yes - you may be right. Too late now!