WoltLab Suite Forum
The award-winning forum software by WoltLab. Made in Germany.
Professional Forum Software for Everyone
Building and managing successful communities made easy and reliable.
- Flexible permission system and private forums
- The fine-grained per forum permissions with inheritance allow for all kinds of restricted sections, including but not limited to subscription-based access or private helpdesk forums.
- High Performance and Scalability
- The efficient software design enables WoltLab Suite Forum (formerly known as WoltLab Burning Board) to serve anything from a small and private community up to large sites with tens of millions of posts.
- Serving forums for almost two decades and counting
- The first version of Burning Board was released in 2001, eventually evolving into the globally recognized forum software that is used by millions of users everyday and was repeatedly awarded as the best forum software.
- Made in Germany
- Built with strict code and security standards to deliver a reliable and secure forum software, protecting both your website and your users' personal data. Trusted by reputable brands worldwide.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Pre-configured to be compliant with the GDPR of the European Union.
- Built-in privacy policy
- The shipped privacy policy covers every feature of the GDPR-ready forum software, including the optional usage of integrated third party services.
- User data export
- Export the list of the stored personal data of an user with a single click using the standardized JSON file format. Easy integration for third party plugins and apps using the documented API.
- Configurable storage of IP addresses
- IP addresses are considered to be personal data in some jurisdictions, the permanent storage of ip addresses in the forum software and the core components can be disabled.
- Contact form with a prompt for consent
- The GDPR requires contact forms to inform users of the privacy policy, expressly prompting for their consent to process their data.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
The SEO forum software made for humans and loved by search engines.
- Enterprise-grade SEO without compromises
- Built for your users, the unparalleled user experience of our forum software comes first, with SEO designed around it. We believe that attracting new and keeping existing users are equally important.
- XML-Sitemaps for all our apps
- Submit the sitemaps to search engines and have new content in the forum software appear in search results as fast as possible. Zero maintenance due to automated updates in configurable intervals.
- User-friendly and customizable site links
- Include the name of threads and boards to increase legibility, and alter the link names of existing pages to increase the keyword density, further improving your ranking in the search results.
- Semantic Markup and HTML5 microdata
- The HTML markup of all pages were optimized to allow search engines to interpret your site in a meaningful way without any drawbacks for your regular audience.
Data Import & Migration
Migrate your community with our guided and fully automated import system.
- Reliable and user-friendly
- The forum software importers can handle data from a wide range of versions for each supported software, including data migration from modified installations.
- CLI import for large forums
- Migrate large forums using the command line API with support for partial imports and access to the data rebuild workers.
- Switch from vBulletin, XenForo, IP.Board and other forum softwares
- vBulletin 3.x, vBulletin 4.x and vBulletin 5.x
- XenForo 1.x and XenForo 2.x
- IP.Board 3.4.x and Invision Community 4.x
- MyBB 1.8.x
- phpBB 3.0, phpBB 3.1 and phpBB 3.2
- SMF 2.x
- WordPress 3.7 or newer
- Kunena 3.0.x
- NodeBB 0.x (Redis)
We would be happy to perform the migration for you, please contact us for a quote.
