If your using the stars theme and don’t like updating those extra files on your server and want to do everything from your WordPress dashboard then this is the plugin for you.

Download it here

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp125/

Below is what I found to be the most widely used (FREE) forum’s on the internet.

Name: Vanilla – Website
WordPress Integration: Yes | Documentation
Themes and Styles: Yes
Plugins and Add-ons: Yes
Language Packs: Yes
Active Community: Yes
Support: Yes

Name: bbPress – Website
WordPress Integration: Yes | WP plugin | More
Themes and Styles: Yes
Plugins and Add-ons: Yes
Language Packs: Yes
Active Community: Yes
Support: Yes

Name: phpBB – Website
WordPress Integration: Yes | WP2BB
Themes and Styles: Yes
Plugins and Add-ons: Yes
Language Packs: Yes
Active Community: Yes
Support: Yes

Name: Simple Machines – Website
WordPress Integration: Yes | WP Post to SMF | WP Bridge
Themes and Styles: Yes
Plugins and Add-ons: Yes
Language Packs: Yes
Active Community: Yes
Support: Yes

Name: punbb – Website
WordPress Integration: N/A
Themes and Styles: Yes
Plugins and Add-ons: Yes
Language Packs: Yes
Active Community: Yes
Support: Yes

Name: MyBB – Website
WordPress Integration: N/A
Themes and Styles: Yes
Plugins and Add-ons: Yes
Language Packs: Yes
Active Community: Yes
Support: Yes

Name: YaBB – Website
WordPress Integration: N/A
Themes and Styles: Yes
Plugins and Add-ons: Yes
Language Packs: Yes
Active Community: Yes
Support: Yes

Name: Yet Another Forum – Website
WordPress Integration: N/A
Themes and Styles: Yes
Plugins and Add-ons: Yes
Language Packs: Yes
Active Community: Yes
Support: Yes

Name: Simple Press – Website
WordPress Integration: Yes
Themes and Styles: Yes
Plugins and Add-ons: Yes
Language Packs: Yes
Active Community: Yes
Support: Yes

Name: ImperialBB – Website
WordPress Integration: No
Themes and Styles: Limited
Plugins and Add-ons: Limited
Language Packs: No
Active Community: Yes
Support: Limited

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I know there a couple I might be missing so if you can think of any or know some that should be on this list please post it below.

How to Add pages to your main (Black) menu.

In the header.php add:

<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=’); ?>

So you change this:

<ul id="nav" class="clearfix">
<li class="<?php if (((is_home()) &amp;&amp; !(is_paged())) or (is_archive() &amp;&amp; !(is_category())) or (is_single()) or (is_paged()) or (is_search())) { ?>current-cat<?php } else { ?>cat-item<?php } ?>"><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"><?php _e( 'Home', 'wpbx' ) ?></a></li>

<!– change "depth=3" to suit your menu depth level, and change "exclude=x" with the category ID that you want exclude from the menu (multiple categories separated by , (comma) –>
<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=ID&amp;order=ASC&amp;depth=3&amp;title_li=&amp;exclude='); ?>

<li id="m-subscribe"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOURFEEDBURNERUSERNAME"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/YOURFEEDBURNERUSERNAME?bg=e33258&amp;amp;fg=ffffff&amp;amp;anim=0" height="26" width="88" style="border:0" alt="" /></a></li>
</ul>

To this:

<ul id="nav" class="clearfix">
<li class="<?php if (((is_home()) &amp;&amp; !(is_paged())) or (is_archive() &amp;&amp; !(is_category())) or (is_single()) or (is_paged()) or (is_search())) { ?>current-cat<?php } else { ?>cat-item<?php } ?>"><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"><?php _e( 'Home', 'wpbx' ) ?></a></li>

<!– change "depth=3" to suit your menu depth level, and change "exclude=x" with the category ID that you want exclude from the menu (multiple categories separated by , (comma) –>
<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=ID&amp;order=ASC&amp;depth=3&amp;title_li=&amp;exclude='); ?>
<strong> <?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?></strong>

<li id="m-subscribe"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOURFEEDBURNERUSERNAME"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/YOURFEEDBURNERUSERNAME?bg=e33258&amp;amp;fg=ffffff&amp;amp;anim=0" height="26" width="88" style="border:0" alt="" /></a></li>
</ul>

Remember when you add this code pages AND categories will be visible on the menu.

If you only want to show a couple of pages add this string:

<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&exclude=1,2,3′); ?>

Where 1,2,3 are the page numbers you want to exclude.

Why use this plugin? Well for people like me who have a theme disorder and can never commit to any one for specific long period of time I can see instantly what other themes look like but also more importantly I can work on an alternate them while never disturbing my visitors.

See it in action here and here using this site as an example using the Classic and Default themes.  (Tested in WP2.7)

About the Plugin:

Author:Vladimir Prelovac

Theme Test Drive Wordpress plugin allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one.

It happens completely transparent and they will not even notice you run a different theme for yourself.

Best part is you can even set the testing theme options (if it has them) in the Admin panel while you are testing the theme.

Download the Plugin Here