Backdrop LIVE is based upon an unconference model. Anyone can declare a topic up through the day of the event and the schedule is subject to change at any time. What would you like to talk about?

Block A - Slot 2

Slot 2: 9:00 am America/Los_Angeles - November 6, 2025

Someone recently asked about the status of the forum module for Backdrop CMS in our Backdrop chat room and a vibrant discussion broke out about the various options for building forums with Backdrop CMS. 

While we have a forum module available in contrib, the Backdrop community choose to build our own forum with simple custom content types, config, and a little custom code. 

In this session we can talk about various options for building forum features in a Backdrop site and what is missing from the Backdrop core and contrib spaces to make this easier. 

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