bbPress

bbPress is forum software, made the WordPress way.

WPMeta Score

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Plugin Popularity 5.0

Author Activity 2.5

👷🏻 This plugin is actively maintained and contributors are really committed to it!
📥 Wow! 1,589 people download this plugin eveyday!
🏂 Super good!! 98.55% users from more than 300,000 active installs are on the latest version!
🎖 Excellent plugin. It's one of the Top 100 WordPress plugins here.
❤️ Mindblowing! More than 11,706,220 people use plugins from this team.
👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 Good sign.. There is a team behind this plugin.
📢 Aweful or Awesome?? 54 total updates and 54 in just last 12 months. That's a lot!
🎂 This plugin celebrated it's 9th anniversary 7 months ago.

Key Numbers

300,000+ Active Installs
4 Avg. Users Rating
290 Total Ratings
5,210,019 Total Downloads
2010-01-13 Added
54 Releases in 12 Months
2018-10-15 Last Update
2.5.14 Current Version

Peer Comparison

#	Plugin	WPMeta Score	Users	Rating
1	bbPress	5	300,000+	4
2	bbPress Shortcodes	1.2	200+	5
3	bbPress Style and shortcode for Visual composer	1.1	5	0
4	bbPress for Visual Composer	0.9	17	0
5	Fix Forum Emails	0.9	40+	5
6	BP Emails for BBP	0.9	80+	5
7	Use TinyMCE with bbPress	0.8	100+	0

Description

Have you ever been frustrated with forum or bulletin board software that was slow, bloated and always got your server hacked? bbPress is focused on ease of integration, ease of use, web standards, and speed.

We’re keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system. What does all that mean? bbPress is lean, mean, and ready to take on any job you throw at it.

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Contributors

jmdodd

johnjamesjacoby

matt

netweb

Reviews

5 Stars 169

4 Stars 41

3 Stars 25

2 Stars 18

1 Star 37

Although it's a little bit Outdated

by melialvemel

One of the best choice for forums

Its really working for me

by treckoshw

I am using this plugin and overall it is simply superb and really nice working. Just minor css issues needs to improve.

¡¡¡Awesome!!!

by MCD Web (macsgv)

Hello, first of all my congratulations to the developers of excellent plugin, I highly recommend it, although the learning curve is a little high at the beginning with a little bit of will and patience you can achieve impressive results. You also have free add-ons to get new features.

Very outdated, if you need a forum others options are out there

by adamfartassi

This plugin is a big mess stuck in development hell. I don't think they'll improve anything, the devs are lazy because it's free and they're not getting their sweet money for it. In the same time if you criticize anything they'll say that you should be thankful for their work lol. Seriously, I managed to get it work as I want but oh boy the hacks that I needed to do just to display the subforums correctly. And still I'm using five others plugins to add some functions into this crap. Now it's barely good, I still have few bugs but I can't fix them since I don't want to recode all their mess. I still needed BBpress because my theme is sold with it and Learnpress (another big mess) can use it to give permission only to people who bought some products from you. Just stay away from this plugin if you only need a "forum plugin" just check wordpress.org, there are many others plugins for that.

Good community plugin

by Bernd D. (debernd)

I used it on several projects, like for local clubs to bring in the social aspect into web projects. It works just fine. There could be a bit more documentation.

Форум хороший, но глючный

by kolyasamarkin

Форум хороший, но глючный

It's working, but...

by Nopalot

It's unsuitable for a multilingual forum. And it's default theme/design looks pretty much antique... The later issue can be improved with some third party plugins.

fickle, outdated pile of ugly junk

by elexem

man, I've had it with this, after trying to blend it into an otherwise beautiful environment. bbpress may have been .the. go-to-plugin for anyone needing a forum on their worpress-driven-presence; but that time has clearly passed. The last update months ago; unreliable functionality (which is routinely blamed on everybody else(s theme/s, plugin/s, whatevs)), crucial elements simply not working (edit topic / reply not workable? A recurring problem, just google that issue). On top of that a complete bitch to style in order to get it even anywhere near contemporary look and feel. If I ever need a forum for anything (again), I'll give this dead pile a wide berth.