bbPress is the most popular and open source forum plugin for WordPress. However, to make your forum created with bbPress complete you will need support of some plugins which will help you to create a comprehensive forum.

In this post we have collected some of the best bbPress forum plugins which will help you to enhance the functionality of your forum make it modern and complete.

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List of Best bbPress Forum Plugins
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WP User Avatar

User avatar or the profile image is the most essential part of any online forum, it helps other users to understand whom they are  communicating with.

WP User Avatar enables you to use any photo uploaded into your Media Library as an avatar. This means you use the same uploader and library as your posts. No extra folders or image editing functions are necessary.

 GD bbPress Attachments

Attachments for forum topics and replies are handled through WordPress media library. You can control file sizes from the main plugin settings panel, or you can do it individually for each forum you have set.

Better bbPress Signature

Better bbPress Signature is signature plugin to add option for member signature for bbPress forums. It will automatically embed the signature form in the topic and reply form and the signature in the topic content and reply content.

bbPress Notify

This plugin integrates into bbPress and sends a notification via e-mail when new topics or replies are posted. This plugin will help help to increase repeat traffic to a great extent.

Anti-spam by CleanTalk

Anti-spam by CleanTalk plugin makes your bbPress forum spam free. It protects your forum site from spam comment, spam through email contact forms and spam registrations

bbPress – Private Replies

Private replies are another essential part of any online forum as there will be number of instances when users need to send private replies to other users.

This add-on plugin for bbPress will allow your forum posters to mark their replies as private, meaning that only the original poster and forum moderators can see the content of the reply.

Private groups

Want to have a private group and forum with bbPress, this plugin will help you to achieve that.

bbPress Protected Forums

bbPress Protected Forums plugin adds a metabox, shown while editing a forum, that allows you to disable new topic creation for determined user roles.

GD bbPress Tools

A very important bbPress plugin, it adds couple of tools to your bbPress forum. It limits bbPress admin side access, it will let you add signature with BBCode and HTML support and more

bbPress Threaded Replies

bbPress Threaded Replies is based on comment display functions from WordPress and topic-display functions from bbPress. Settings can be adjusted on the bbPress Forums options page of WordPress.

bbPress Topics for Posts

This plugin will replace the comments on your WordPress blog posts with topics from an integrated bbPress install. You can let the plugin create a new topic for you in the forum of your choice, or specify an existing topic to attach to the post

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