bbPress

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Nice forum software for wordpress

easy to use and customization, that one is the great product for wordpress

Thanks!

After a couple of hours I developed a strong dislike for this program. Here are some reasons: - When I uninstalled bbPress and reinstalled it, all of the old experimental junk forums and topics came back. And the settings I had changed earlier never reverted to defaults. So it's not cleaning after itself during uninstall. - It lacks a traditional forum layout with proper categories and sub-forums (like vBulletin and phpBB). A support discussion said this was coming. That support discussion was SIX years ago... - By default there are no visible Register or Login tools. You can add a shortcode to the forum index page, but there doesn't seem to be any way for visitors to register or login from any Forum or Topic page. - There are no customization options without manually writing CSS code. You can't change the layout, colors, spacing, text sizes or fonts... Fortunately, bbPress did a good job of using the theme colors and general settings, the one nice thing I can say about it.