Besides being the most popular blogging tool on the market, WordPress is also a powerful CMS, with which you can create wonderful blogs.

On the other hand, a forum is an effective means that allows you to create communities on the internet. Integrating a forum into a WordPress blog is therefore a good way to stay in touch with your community.

I know you will ask me: How to do it?

Indeed, there are several WordPress plugins capable of giving you the option of integrating a forum into your WordPress website. Below we have compiled for you the 5 best premium WordPress plugins that will help you create a forum on your blog.

But before, let's discover together How to Install a WordPress Blog in 7 Steps et How to search, install and activate a WordPress theme on your blog.

Then, back to why we are here.

1. Groups Forums

GroupsForums is a WordPress Plugin premium that provides the ability to create a powerful yet lightweight forum for any WordPress blog.

Groups forums wordpress forum plugin

With this plugin, the creation of groups is completely free; subjects can be set up in an unlimited way. Each user or only the members of a group will be able to post and respond to forum topics, while the forums are still visible to the public.

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Its other features are:Omission of subjects on the dashboard and on the public interface, support for msubjects' speakers; one ssupport system with automated subject assignment, support forimportant issues, the possibility of subscribing subjects with the ability to leave or not an answer, the Ncustomizable comments, the support of Widgets and others.

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2. Sabai Discuss

Sabai Discuss is not a WordPress Plugin forum premium in the strict sense of the term; but it contains very interesting features just as provided as a traditional forum plugin.Sabai chat plugin for wordpress plugin 1

Thanks to him, you will be able to create a forum on your blog or website, where visitors will be able to ask questions that will be answered by others.

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Also, once you install Sabai Discuss and your users start using it, it will automatically create a database for your website that can be reused.

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3. Team Showcase

Team Showcase is a solution for displaying a set of images and information in different layouts on your WordPress blog. The main purpose of this WordPress Plugin premium is to introduce team members or staff, but it can be used for other purposes.

Team showcase

You can use it for example to present the members of a community, a group. It is a completely configurable plugin. Team members can be viewed by categories or groups if you want.

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Team Showcase is an extension perfectly compatible with WordPress and Visual Composer.

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4. DW Question & Answer Pro

DW Question & Answer Pro is a premium WordPress question and answer plugin for any WordPress blog. Your site will have a full section dedicated to questions and answers, as seen with StackOverflow, Quora or Yahoo Answers.

Dw question answer pro wordpress plugin

DW Question & Answer Pro Designers Bring Many New Features to You, and Special Priority assistance for their customers.

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It is the ideal plugin to allow a community to express themselves on your blog.

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5. BuddyPress Users Chat Plugin

BuddyPress Users Chat Plugin is a WordPress extension premium from BuddyPress which implements a chat system on your WordPress blog or website.Wordpress buddypress users chat wordpress plugin 1

Once this plugin is installed on any blog, forum, community, directory, e-commerce website, or website of is the international treasure BuddyPress, all connected users can automatically chat instantly.

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This plugin also sets up an easy way to chat online, which looks a bit like what Facebook offers.

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Conclusion

Here ! That's it for this article. We introduced you 5 great premium WordPress plugins  that will help you create a forum in your website. But in the end, the choice of the plugin is yours. It will depend heavily on what you want to use it for. 

However, you will also be able to consult our resources, if you need more elements to carry out your projects of creation of Internet sites, by consulting our guide on the WordPress blog creation or the one on Divi: the best WordPress theme of all time.

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