bbPress

Have you ever been frustrated with forum or bulletin board software that was slow, bloated and always got your server hacked? bbPress is focused on ease of integration, ease of use, web standards, and speed.

We’re keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system. What does all that mean? bbPress is lean, mean, and ready to take on any job you throw at it.

With 5,571,776 downloads, bbpress is the best Forum plugin of all the times.

Installation

FROM YOUR WORDPRESS DASHBOARD

  1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
  2. Search for ‘bbPress’
  3. Activate bbPress from your Plugins page. (You’ll be greeted with a Welcome page.)
  4. Visit ‘Forums > Add New’ and create some forums. (You can always delete these later.)
  5. If you have pretty permalinks enabled, visit yourdomain.com/forums, or if you do not have pretty permalinks enabled, visit yourdomain.com?post_type=forum

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’ll be greeted with a Welcome page.)
  4. Visit ‘Forums > Add New’ and create some forums. (You can always delete these later.)
  5. If you have pretty permalinks enabled, visit yourdomain.com/forums, or if you do not have pretty permalinks enabled, visit yourdomain.com?post_type=forum

EXTRA

  1. Visit ‘Settings > Forums’ and adjust your configuration.
  2. Adjust the CSS of your theme as needed, to make everything pretty.