Title: bbPress Author: John James Jacoby Published: January 13, 2010 Last modified: July 2, 2025 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/bbpress/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=478663) ![](https://ps.w.org/bbpress/assets/icon.svg?rev=978290) # bbPress By [John James Jacoby](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.2.6.14.zip) * [Details](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#description) * [Reviews](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#reviews) * [Installation](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#installation) * [Development](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/#developers) [Support](https://bbpress.org/forums/) ## 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. ## 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 1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’ 2. Search for ‘bbPress’ 3. Activate bbPress from your Plugins page. (You will be greeted with a Welcome page.) #### From WordPress.org 1. Download bbPress. 2. Upload the ‘bbpress’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…) 3. Activate bbPress from your Plugins page. (You will be greeted with a Welcome page.) #### Once Activated 1. Visit ‘Forums > Add New’ and create some forums. (You can always delete these later.) 2. 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 3. Visit ‘Settings > Forums’ and configure the settings to best match the needs of your community. 4. 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 customise 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. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c611d11fbc2697a87a888d1a9b792d23799ae131f520af2bfb546d3e1305969f? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[A historic plugin that is still useful](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-historic-plugin-that-is-still-useful/)󠁿 [Luke Garrison](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lukegarry/) 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. Fantastic! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/471aeb614df0933d92740a94f17d4cd974b907b75b1d0190b5a5adcf2d0bde25? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Да вроде бы хорошо работает](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/%d0%b4%d0%b0-%d0%b2%d1%80%d0%be%d0%b4%d0%b5-%d0%b1%d1%8b-%d1%85%d0%be%d1%80%d0%be%d1%88%d0%be-%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b1%d0%be%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%b5%d1%82/)󠁿 [mystick3](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mystick3/) September 28, 2025 Пользуюсь давно, все функции работают нормально!! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/af91863ccdf961b4e6eabcaa08d5583ca62e68200e9f139eee4efbdbb03ae41b? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[white](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/white-3/)󠁿 [honkitamc](https://profiles.wordpress.org/honkitamc/) September 21, 2025 The screen goes white　 ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/08955869f5eedaa9beca3029ad12302f2e815c92989fbf84ba6804db73f7197c? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Abandonned plugin and buggy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/abandonned-plugin-and-buggy/)󠁿 [vyrtuozz1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vyrtuozz1/) May 20, 2025 Abandonned plugin and buggy ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9786181f2ac82df1c2b05de1899533eadab7a16b5e6f7462d0c11f6abe6af6bd? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[so old now](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/so-old-now/)󠁿 [Li-An](https://profiles.wordpress.org/li-an/) March 25, 2025 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. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f3811cc9c24e441268d142c0bbb91fe7845ef532eb64fc2bfde6c36bd4fb44f7? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Is not trustable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-not-trustable/)󠁿 [jruiz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jruiz/) January 23, 2025 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. [ Read all 343 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpress/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “bbPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ John James Jacoby ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby/) * [ Matt Mullenweg ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt/) * [ Jennifer M. Dodd ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jmdodd/) * [ Stephen Edgar ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/netweb/) * [ Sergey Biryukov ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/) “bbPress” has been translated into 57 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “bbPress” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bbpress/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bbpress/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bbpress/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bbpress/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog Check out the [releases page](https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/) ## Meta * Version **2.6.14** * Last updated: **10 months ago** * Active installations: **100,000+** * WordPress Version: ** 6.0 or higher ** * Tested up to: **6.9.4** * PHP Version: ** 5.6.20 or higher ** * Language: * [Albanian](https://sq.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Arabic](https://ar.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Bulgarian](https://bg.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Catalan](https://ca.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Chinese (China)](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Chinese (Hong Kong)](https://zh-hk.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Croatian](https://hr.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Czech](https://cs.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Danish](https://da.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Dutch (Belgium)](https://nl-be.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [English (Australia)](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [English (Canada)](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [English (New Zealand)](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [English (South Africa)](https://en-za.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Esperanto](https://eo.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Finnish](https://fi.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Greek](https://el.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Gujarati](https://gu.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Hebrew](https://he.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Hungarian](https://hu.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Indonesian](https://id.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Italian](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Japanese](https://ja.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Korean](https://ko.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Lao](https://lo.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Lithuanian](https://lt.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Moroccan Arabic](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Norwegian (Bokmål)](https://nb.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Persian](https://fa.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Polish](https://pl.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Portuguese (Angola)](https://pt-ao.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Portuguese (Brazil)](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Portuguese (Portugal)](https://pt.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Romanian](https://ro.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Serbian](https://sr.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Slovak](https://sk.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Slovenian](https://sl.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Spanish (Colombia)](https://es-co.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Spanish (Costa Rica)](https://es-cr.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Spanish (Ecuador)](https://es-ec.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Spanish (Mexico)](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Spanish (Venezuela)](https://ve.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Thai](https://th.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Turkish](https://tr.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Ukrainian](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Uzbek](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), [Vietnamese](https://vi.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/), and [Welsh](https://cy.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbpress) * Tags: * [discussion](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/discussion/)[forum](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/forum/) [forums](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/forums/)[support](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/support/) * [Advanced View](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/advanced/) ## Ratings 3.9 out of 5 stars. * [ 197 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpress/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 40 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpress/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 25 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpress/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 23 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpress/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 58 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpress/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpress/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpress/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ John James Jacoby ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnjamesjacoby/) * [ Matt Mullenweg ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt/) * [ Jennifer M. Dodd ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jmdodd/) * [ Stephen Edgar ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/netweb/) * [ Sergey Biryukov ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://bbpress.org/forums/)