sociomedia21 - 3:22 pm on Feb 18, 2012 (gmt 0)

Maybe I'm wrong but from your introduction I understood that you don't want to continue with the sitemaps mechanic because by adding a forum it may become a total mess.

If I'm correct, I would like to add that you can use different sitemap files for forum and the rest of the Web, and submit them individually, or create a master sitemap file that links to the other ones and submit the master as the WP SEO pluggin from yoast does.

This way, you can keep the current sitemap for the regular site, and create a second one totally independant dfor the forum via some plugin if it's available.