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You have to be a KEYMASTER to see the advanced settings/plugins menu in bbPress

A regular administrator in bbPress only has slightly more rights than a moderator.

If you are already the keymaster (and user #1) and still can’t see the plugins section, perhaps try this plugin to fix it:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/

(it’s an auto-load plugin so it doesn’t need activation)