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 customize 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.