It happens now and then that I write an article in Wordpress using basic HTML to format my text which I then want to post on a forum as well. As most of you know forums use different tags for formatting text called BBCode. Most forums have a rich text editor that will take over the right formatting when pasting in the formatted text. When a rich text editor is not available extra actions are required to take over the right formatting. To get the same layout on a forum topic you will have to reformat the text using BBCode tags. Instead of doing this by hand there are tools out there that can automate this job and save you some of your precious time. Below is a list of resources that get this job done.

• Cool HTML to BBCode Converter: this site features an online tool that let’s you paste the HTML code and then converts it to the proper BBCode.
• HTML To BB Code Converter by Gary Hood: on this website you can convert entire webpage to the most common used BBCode.
• Bulletin Board / Forum Code Converter: a converter that will convert HTML to BBCode and visa versa. It can also create plain text.
• DM BBCode Extension: this is a Firefox extension with endless posibilities when it comes to BBCode. This extension adds an entry into your context menu when you right click on stuff to make the relevant BBCode for you.

If you came here looking for something that will convert BBCode to HTML (the other way round). There is something out there to do that as well.

• Bulletin Board / Forum Code Converter: I mentioned this one above as well but this tool does it both ways.
• BBCode to HTML: this website features a BBCode to HTML converter that will create clean HTML code including proper paragraphs.