bbPress.org

The bbPress plugin will fully integrate into any existing WordPress 3.1+ installation. Since it’s using WordPress to power the database interaction, it is immediately integrated and available in any way you need it to be, depending on your level of skill, etc…

Technically WordPress doesn’t really have conventional ‘profiles’ but they do use the exact same user account for everything. In the future bbPress profiles will be merged with BuddyPress profiles, providing a seamless experience.

You’re on your own with advertisements.

Other things of note:

* The stand alone version of bbPress has been in a feature freeze for a majority of the past two years.

* The community surrounding bbPress isn’t as large as WordPress.

* The transition between versions (0.9, 1.0, and now the plugin) have caused some unrest for people passionate about the project.

So, that’s the cliff-notes of the story.

Right now probably the best example of the plugin in action is over at http://testbp.org/discussion. It’s using some of the shortcodes and minimal CSS tweaks to mimic the look of the forums here at bbpress.org.

Kind of a long story, but more cliffnotes…

BuddyPress is a social networking plugin for WordPress, that actually comes bundled with bbPress inside of it to create group discussion forums.

bbPress has always been a stand-alone platform (like WordPress) but is being turned into a plugin for WordPress to make integration as seamless as possible. So right now, there are two distinctly separate versions of bbPress, stand-alone and plugin.

As far as I know there isn’t a migration script between SMF and bbPress, but I could be wrong. There most likely is not one for the bbPress plugin since it hasn’t been publicly released yet.

Documentation, is limited. There is almost none on the plugin so far, but there will be once it’s released and in the wild. We’ll put some documentation up here at bbpress.org to help answer all of these kinds of questions easier.

Hey, is it possible to allow FB, Twitter users to comment without registration?

Hello. I confess I am struggling with this. I think it might be very very helpful to (albeit minority of noob types like myself) to visually SEE what a simple and successful wordpress + bbpress plugin project looks like — untweaked and “for the rest of us” …

I just installed bbPress plugin and started using it but can’t get it to lool ANYTHING like what you have shown above..

I have struggled setting up SImplePress–but it was SLOW

Then phpPress — it was a monster headache

now I am SOLD on bbpress but am stuck setting it up to look great!

I am willing to PAY someone to help me “pimp” it, but actually only need it to look moderately cool.

Here is my site just in case anyone is interested

http://www.surviveinfidelityhq.com

Thanks…Tom and Sarah

Thanks to the Key Master your very involved and the answers are very informative