If blogs were the precursors to WordPress, then forums were the precursors to bbPress, the popular forum software for WordPress. Both are producers of social media; the general public just hasn't seen them as such. It's easy to dismiss WordPress as just a blogging software, but in the last chapter, you learned you can easily download a few plugins and enable an immense Facebook-like social layer on top of your installation. Now, we'll take a look at forums, which provide another social layer where your visitors can connect with each other to exchange opinions on a variety of topics through bbPress and other forum alternatives.