{"id":2303,"date":"2020-09-11T18:19:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T01:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2020-09-12T04:05:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T11:05:50","slug":"what-would-you-recommend-for-forum-software-between-smf-and-phpbb-or-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/2303\/what-would-you-recommend-for-forum-software-between-smf-and-phpbb-or-something-else\/","title":{"rendered":"What would you recommend for forum software between SMF and phpBB &#8211; or something else?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Between those 2, I would go with phpBB. But UltimateWB is a much better option &#8211; the built-in UltimateWB forum app has a lot of features, and more options for controlling spam. UltimateWB used to have an integrated built-in phpBB forum early on, but then it got switched out for this custom forum app to fix the spam issues and add more features to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Got a techy\/website question? Whether it\u2019s about UltimateWB or another website builder, web hosting, or other aspects of websites, just send in your question in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/ask-david\">\u201cAsk David!\u201d form<\/a>. We will email you when the answer is posted on the UltimateWB \u201cAsk David!\u201d section.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between those 2, I would go with phpBB. But UltimateWB is a much better option &#8211; the built-in UltimateWB forum app has a lot of features, and more options for controlling spam. UltimateWB used to have an integrated built-in phpBB &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/2303\/what-would-you-recommend-for-forum-software-between-smf-and-phpbb-or-something-else\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1034],"tags":[1290,1292,757,745,761,755,1298,1092,751,752],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-david","tag-best-forum-software","tag-best-forum-website-builder","tag-compare-forum-software","tag-forum","tag-forum-app","tag-forum-software","tag-forum-spam","tag-forum-website-builder","tag-phpbb","tag-smf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}