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 ...



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dowj01 Premium
Great training. Thank you.
Justin
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smartketeer Premium
Thank YOU!
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Nick-at-WA Premium
Thanks Zed, bookmarked this one for later
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smartketeer Premium
Thanks Nick!
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serenedreams Premium
I like the idea, but little complicated at this time, hoping to concentrate on Content for now, thanks for the post.
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Thanks for the time!
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raweiss Premium
bbPress gets a bad rap sometimes - I think because it is free. :-) How could anything free be worth it? But it is very complete and very expandable.

My only issue with it over the years has been the ability to customize the layout. Someday, I hope that they will make it easier to move things around.
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smartketeer Premium
Thanks for the feedback Rick!

Appreciated!
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Kosovari2019 Premium
good training and I am proving this method
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smartketeer Premium
Thank you Bajram!
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