[cornellist]

Hello,

I am currently working on a school project that is in dire need of a adequate forum and I think bbPress would fit the bill perfectly. I am completely new here, I just had one really quick question:

So I read that the dropbox support website forum, https://forums.dropbox.com/ was based on bbPress and I was wondering what it would take to make something as similar as possible to that.

We don’t need social functions, or any other sophisticated integration — we need a forum, login functionality and that’s it.

Could anyone give me some pointers or leads as to how I could accomplish this?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

[Stephen Edgar]

Dropbox are using the old bbPress ‘Standalone’ 1.x version with some custom theming, though I wouldn’t recommend installing this old version as I am quite sure they have lots of customizations in the backend to get around the known numerous issues with the old version.

Go with the new version https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/installation/

Then start customizing the templates to the style you want
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[cornellist]

Thank you Stephen!