bbPress Tutorials

How To Setup bbPress The first thing you need to do when setting up bbPress is to make sure that your website is a WordPress based website. bbPress is a plugin for WordPress which is installed and then activated to give the features of a forum inside WordPress. bbPress uses custom post types which allow you to integrate it very easily with the rest... Read Full Article

An open source, free forum plugin, bbPress is integrated on top of a WordPress site. This forum software may be installed as a plugin into a WordPress-powered website. Different from other conventional forum software, bbPress is not awkward and does not require it's own database., which means it is much easier to place a forum into your website with... Read Full Article

I have slowly developing a WordPress theme which will be compatible with bbPress. During my time developing it I wanted to create and delete some bbPress data for testing purposes. Here is the code for the plugin, or if you wish see below to download the zip file containing the plugin. When you install the plugin and activate it will create the,... Read Full Article

So if your here you have probably been using bbPress and have got an error you just can't seem to get working. I have made myself a little list of troubleshooting techniques to resolve some of the most common bbPress errors. Remember that bbPress is now a WordPress plugin (originally it was not) so treat it like you would any other plugin. Ok onto... Read Full Article

After working with bbPress for a while I started to realise how much you could actually achieve with it. Full integration with WordPress out of the box is incredibly powerful for developers. One thing that was lacking for me was the layout of the forum. When I think of forum I tend to see a row of categories/forums across the page with titles and... Read Full Article

In most forum software you see a users post count underneath their name. bbPress does have this capability, but it requires a little theme customization. Check the piece of code below, you can use it inside your loop-single-reply.php to display the users post count. [php]if(!bbp_is_topic_anonymous()) { if(!bbp_is_reply_anonymous()) { ... Read Full Article