Description
Are you looking for a timeless, elegant, and streamlined discussion board? bbPress is easy to integrate, easy to use, and is built to scale with your growing community.
bbPress is intentionally simple yet infinitely powerful forum software, built by contributors to WordPress.
Screenshots
Forums - Admin Interface 
Topics - Admin Interface 
Replies - Admin Interface 
Settings - Admin Interface 
Settings 2 - Admin Interface 
Themes - Admin Interface 
Single Forum - Default Theme
Installation
From your WordPress dashboard
- Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
- Search for ‘bbPress’
- Activate bbPress from your Plugins page. (You will be greeted with a Welcome page.)
From WordPress.org
- Download bbPress.
- Upload the ‘bbpress’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…)
- Activate bbPress from your Plugins page. (You will be greeted with a Welcome page.)
Once Activated
- Visit ‘Forums > Add New’ and create some forums. (You can always delete these later.)
- If you have pretty permalinks enabled, visit example.com/forums/, or if you do not have pretty permalinks enabled, visit example.com?post_type=forum
- Visit ‘Settings > Forums’ and configure the settings to best match the needs of your community.
- Visit ‘Tools > Forums > Import Forums’ if you have an existing forum to convert to bbPress.
Once Configured
- bbPress comes with a robust theme-compatibility API that does its best to make bbPress look and feel right with just-about any WordPress theme. You may need to adjust some styling on your own to make everything look pristine.
- You may want to customize the register/activation/sign-in/lost-password flows, to better suit your site. bbPress comes with a bevy of shortcodes to make this possible, listed here: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
- bbPress also comes with built-in support for Akismet and BuddyPress, two very popular and very powerful WordPress plugins. If you’re using either, visit your Forum Settings page and ensure that integration appears correct.
Reviews
Maart 25, 2020
This is really a time saver with very helpful functionality. Thank you!
Maart 21, 2020
I think if you're not really a (coding) professional it's very hard to make it run propperly, correct misbehavour and costumize it. I wouldn't recommend bbPress to anybody who is just an average WordPress user.
Februarie 23, 2020
Save my time thanks
Februarie 18, 2020
Using it for a long time, only now registered to give it 5 stars!
Desember 4, 2019
We have used bbPress for several years to power the support forums on Organic Themes. It's an amazing plugin! It's hard to believe it's completely free. We would like to say thanks to the amazing team that has built and maintained bbPress!
For any considering the plugin, you may need to add some styles to your theme to get the forums looking exactly how you want. Don't get discouraged. That's to be expected for integrating any plugin of this scale. Trust me, it's worth the minimal effort for such great software.
November 24, 2019
I have been using this bbpress for 2 years now and am still happy. Time for the rating 🙂
Many thanks to the developers! Hard to believe that this is all free of charge...
Contributors & Developers
“bbPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“bbPress” has been translated into 51 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Interested in development?
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Changelog
Check out the releases page