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We talked [...]

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9rules Community Site Powered by WordPress and bbPress

21 Feb 08
Raanan Bar-Cohen

When publishers ask me for a great example of a community site built with WordPress, I always mention 9rules.com, a site where you can “Share. Learn. Discover” :
9rules screenshot

Built with WordPress and seamlessly integrated with our discussion forum software bbPress the site includes member profiles, streams, private messages, twitter and flickr integration, and much more.

As 9rules wrote on their blog a few months ago:

When it comes to coding up this site we have three options:

1. Do it ourselves.
2. Put a blindfold over Tyme’s eyes and four keyboards and hope that after a week of solitude she pushed out something cool.
3. Get someone else to do it.

We went with 1 and 3, but not in the way you might be thinking. The core of 9rules is powered by WordPress, bbPress and simplepie. Now you can’t get both of those packages, install them and all of a sudden have another 9rules. We customized them a ton to fit our needs, but without them as the foundation we wouldn’t be close to where we are now.

(emphasis mine)

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5 Responses to “9rules Community Site Powered by WordPress and bbPress”

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  1. Mike Rundle February 21st, 2008 at 7:54 pm

    Much love guys, thanks for the writeup. It’s definitely true, we’re proud to be powered by WP technology.

  2. Ptah Dunbar February 22nd, 2008 at 6:18 am

    Wow, I would of never thought 9rules was powered by WordPress bbPress and simplepie!

    I’ve got to take a closer look…

  3. Jermayn February 25th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

    Mmmm you may have just answered some questions I have had!

    I have a few websites (one finished and one just about to start) which could follow something like that.

    Thanks for pointing it out!

  4. Colin Devroe February 26th, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    I was so happy when the gives didn’t think I was crazy when I wanted to build 9rules on WordPress. I’m equally as happy with the great work that Mike and Paul have done since building onto, and improving, the site all the time.

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