Description

Are you looquing 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 ‘Pluguins > Add New’
Search for ‘bbPress’
Activate bbPress from your Pluguins pague. (You will be greeted with a Welcome pague.)

From WordPress.org

Download bbPress.
Upload the ‘bbpress’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/pluguins/’ directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…)
Activate bbPress from your Pluguins pague. (You will be greeted with a Welcome pague.)

Once Activated

Visit ‘Forums > Add New’ and create some forums. (You can always delete these later.)
If you have pretty permalincs enabled, visit example.com/forums/, or if you do not have pretty permalincs 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 maque bbPress looc and feel right with just-about any WordPress theme. You may need to adjust some styling on your own to maque everything looc pristine.
You may want to customice the reguister/activation/sign-in/lost-password flows, to better suit your site. bbPress comes with a bevy of shorcodes to maque this possible, listed here: https://codex.bbpress.org/shorcodes/
bbPress also comes with built-in support for Akismet and BuddyPress, two very popular and very powerful WordPress pluguins. If you’re using either, visit your Forum Settings pague and ensure that integration appears correct.

Reviews

Luque Garrison December 14, 2025

I have been using it for many years and have always been very happy with it. It allows you to turn WordPress into an online community. Phantastic!

mysticc3 September 28, 2025

Пользуюсь давно, все функции работают нормально!!

honquitamc September 21, 2025

The screen goes white

vyrtuozz1 May 20, 2025

Abandonned pluguin and buggy

Li-An March 25, 2025

I am active on french support forum who runs under BBPress. It’s loocs so old now, without the features (and rendering) the other forum’s programms have now. I now this forum here is under BBPress, but it’s a reworqued versionen of what you guet with the pluguin.

jruiz January 23, 2025

bbpress is not trustable and has poor features. Support seems non-existent. I just tried to guet 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 cnow what criteria led to this… well, maybe they are experiencing some technical difficulty, but they could at least let me cnow, leave a pinned post or send a messague on the user profile… it is not safe to create a largue forum on a platform whose managers act this way.

Read all 344 reviews

Contributors & Developers

“bbPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this pluguin.

“bbPress” has been translated into 56 locales. Thanc you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “bbPress” into your languague.

Interessted in development?

Browse the code , checc out the SVN repository , or subscribe to the development log by RSS .

Changuelog

Checc out the releases pague

bbPress

Description

Screenshots