It's a well-known fact: bulletin boards and forums are good old reliable tools to build engaged online communities.

And of course, there are plenty of open source forum softwares that you can install on your website, but integrating a third party forum with WordPress can be very "messy" ...

Luckily, there are plugins for almost everything ...

And this time bbPress is the answer to our problem ...

This is why I've created this short tutorial to show you how easy is to add a forum to your blog/site with bbPress ...

Ready?

Let's get our hands dirty!

So ... The obvious questions ... What is bbPress? Why bbPress?

Well, to put it shortly, bbPress is a forum software built the Wordpress way.

It uses your existing Wordpress core which makes it really easy to add a forum in WordPress with bbPress.

It is extensible, so you can add additional add-on plugins to extend the functionality.

And bbPress is light-weight and faster than other popular open source forum softwares.

Here it is:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/

Let's move forward to the next lesson to see how it works ...