[Ryan]

Does bbPress have a plugin or capability of searching the database for a similar post and displaying that to the user before they submit their post (hopefully to cut down on the post duplication)? Similar to how Bugzilla operates.

WP: 4.1.1
bbPress: 2.5.5

[Robkk]

maybe you could use this plugin to get what you wanted

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-auto-suggest-topics-based-on-new-topic-title/