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bbPress
Version: 2.6.14
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.
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.
Screenshots
Forums - Admin Interface
Topics - Admin Interface
Replies - Admin Interface
Settings - Admin Interface
Settings 2 - Admin Interface
Themes - Admin Interface
Single Forum - Default Theme
Reviews
Abandonned plugin and buggy
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Abandonned plugin and buggy
so old now
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I am active on french support forum who runs under BBPress. It’s looks so old now, without the features (and rendering) the other forum’s programs have now. I now this forum here is under BBPress, but it’s a reworked version of what you get with the plugin.
Is not trustable
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bbpress is not trustable and has poor features. Support seems non-existent. I just tried to get help with breadcrumbs that were not showing up on my installation. A technical issue that I presented on their forum (bbpress.org). They didn't answer me, they deleted my post and now I can't post anything there anymore, I don't even know what criteria led to this… well, maybe they are experiencing some technical difficulty, but they could at least let me know, leave a pinned post or send a message on the user profile… it is not safe to create a large forum on a platform whose managers act this way.
We have detected vulnerability with plugin
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Hello,
We are facing an issue WP Engine
We have detected vulnerability with plugin on this site environment. We recommend you update this plugin now to keep your sites secure.
I updated Upto date. Can you please check it and let me know.
Thanks!
Poor coding skills
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very useless plugin, they still not release buddypress compatible version .
they do not reply in support
because of bbpress latest version it destroy my lots of functionality which are based on AJAX method.
i hope they solved all issue as soon as possible.
Unusable. looks like abandoned.
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Tried to install: keymaster issue (so, cannot work at all).
fixed keymaster issue with bbp style plugin (a plugin to fix another plugin looks insane), now blank page.
tried to fix also this via bbp plugin, a lot of graphical glitch and shortcode not parsed.
atm (from some years now) is really unusable.
Please extend Mobile phone layout for Tablets as well
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On 8 inch tablet, single topic page layout is consisted of 2 columns, this layout is same as BBPress page you see on PC's bigger screen. BBPress' 1 column layout you see on mobile phones should be applied on Tablets like iPads as well!
You see 1 column layout BBPress topic page on this Official WordPress.org forum pages already. Hope they officially change the BBPress topic page layout to 1 column soon and let us download new version of it.
Great for phpBB conversion.
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I needed a tool to convert a phpBB forum to WordPress and this plugin did a great job. More than 1000 users, all forums and topics with answers were imported in a few minutes without a single error. It's a cool plug-in for me.
Abandonware
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Just use the miriad of forum software that's still being maintained out there. This hasn't been touched in 2 years. If automatic don't bother updating it why would I bother installing it?
and don't tell me the software is already perfect cos it barely works if the planets align.
don't know why so many bad reviews, works for me
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I tried out several forums and bbPress was the only one that worked for me. I can't remember what I was trying to do at the time, but maybe I was trying to delete users and not get error messages from the forum plugin. bbPress worked without problems.
I did have to do some work to make the forum look nicer in appearance. But after that bbPress works perfectly.
Changelog
Check out the releases page