# Is Kirby the right tool for my project with user area and forum?

**URL:** <https://forum.getkirby.com/t/is-kirby-the-right-tool-for-my-project-with-user-area-and-forum/8393>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** v2\
**Created:** [August 31, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/is-kirby-the-right-tool-for-my-project-with-user-area-and-forum/8393 "2017-08-31T18:56:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matthias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@Matthias](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/Matthias)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/is-kirby-the-right-tool-for-my-project-with-user-area-and-forum/8393/1 "2017-08-31T18:56:21Z")

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I’ve been trying Kirby and like the concept a lot.  
My new project will be for my sports-club. It requires more complex features and after studying the documentation and available examples I have doubts if and how it can be done with Kirby.  
Any hint and help would be welcome. Ideally there would be a theme I could start with.

I would need:

- Restricted user area for ~300 users  
accounts could be created by admin, users should be able to change password from frontend
- Simple user forum with text editing from frontend. Uploads of pdf and jpg should also be possible.
- gallery with upload of pictures from front-end

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**Author:** ![jimbobrjames](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/jimbobrjames/32/5802_2.png) [@jimbobrjames](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/jimbobrjames)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/is-kirby-the-right-tool-for-my-project-with-user-area-and-forum/8393/2 "2017-08-31T19:14:37Z")

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Points 1 and 3 I believe are doable. Ive made a private area before with a front of site login. Not with a password reset tho so someone might know more about that.

For point 2 your better off with a proper forum system on a subdomain, like [Vanilla forums](https://vanillaforums.com/en/software/)

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**Author:** ![texnixe](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/texnixe/32/5754_2.png) [@texnixe](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/texnixe)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/is-kirby-the-right-tool-for-my-project-with-user-area-and-forum/8393/3 "2017-08-31T19:25:28Z")

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> [@Matthias](#):
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> users should be able to change password from frontend

Yes, that is doable as well.

As regards the forum, I agree with @jimbobrjames that you’d be better off with a third party solution. A simple user forum is possible with Kirby as well, in fact the [old Kirby 1](https://getkirby.com/forum/archive) forum ran on Kirby.

I don’t think there is a theme that comes with the features you require, most themes I know are more or less portfolio themes, nothing very complicated.

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**Author:** ![distantnative](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/distantnative/32/11319_2.png) [@distantnative](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/distantnative)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/is-kirby-the-right-tool-for-my-project-with-user-area-and-forum/8393/4 "2025-02-06T17:32:16Z")

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