bbPress is an amazing free plugin which uses WordPress to run a discussion forum.
bbPress uses built in WordPress functionality like custom post types and taxonomies, which allows you to create discussion forums and using the existing member system of WordPress.
While bbPress has over 300,000+ active installs and there are many of awesome add-ons which provide extra functionality to support this forum plugin. So this WordPress Wednesday is a collection of bbPress add-ons you can try out.
*You first will need to make sure you have bbPress installed before using any of these add-ons
1. Buddy-bbPress Support Topic – Free
An Add-on that will add a checkbox to topic authors in order to let them define their topic as a support one. Once on the topic page, the author, admin or mod will be able to manage the status of the topics
2. GD bbPress Tools – Free
This Add-on will adds different expansions and tools to the bbPress 2.x plugin powered forums: BBCode support, signatures, custom views, quote.
3. Activity Log – Free
Want to monitor and track your site activity? Find out exactly who does what on your WordPress website. the Activity Log plugin is like an airplane’s black box that logs every activity in WordPress, and lets you see exactly what people are doing on your site.
4. Private Groups – Free
This Plugin creates unlimited private forum groups.Forums are then allocated to one or more groups, and users allocated to one or more groups.
5. Badgearoo – Free
Create your own badges and points system for WordPress users. You can configure automatic assignment or manually assign badges and points to users. Upload your own badge icons, use a badge theme inspired by Stack Overflow or use custom HTML.
6. Move bbPress Multisite – Free
Move bbPress Multisite allows to move a bbpress install from 1 website of a WordPress Network, to another website of the same MultiSite Network.You can select which parts of your bbPress install to copy and you can also select what parts to delete from the original websit
7. WP ULike – Free
WP ULike is a WordPress plugin that also supports BuddyPress, bbPress and a number of other plugins. It aims to be a comprehensive “Like” system for your site and enables site users to like a wide range of content types, including posts, forum topics and replies, comments and activity updates.
8. Social Login for bbPress – $12
A complete Social Login plugin, well researched. It eliminates the hassle of a site owner, it brings various social login API integration out of the box. Very easy to install and configure
9. bbPress Messages – $20
bbPress Messages is a light and elegant plugin that brings private messages feature to your WordPress forums with bbPress plugin.
10. Inline Image Upload for BBPress – Free
This plugin enables the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor for BBPress forum topics and replies and adds a button to the editor’s “Insert/edit image” dialog that allows forum users to upload images from their computer and insert them inline into their posts.
