BBPress

[Shawn Gossman1]

Have any of you ever used BBPress as a forum software option?

https://bbpress.org/
This is an addon into the popular WordPress software.

This is from the BBPress about page:

Philosophy​

1. GPL, Open Source, always and forever
2. Less (code) is more
3. Code is poetry
4. Simplicity is a feature
5. Speed & security are paramount to a great user experience

Do you think that is a good philosophy to have for a forum software provider?

What would make you want to use BBPress?

What would make you not want to use BBPress?

 

[Dilip]

They are good. But I guess, no YouTube embed support in the free version.

 

[Shawn Gossman1]

They are good. But I guess, no YouTube embed support in the free version.

So can one add a general WordPress addon to support YT embeds and it cross-function on the forum or have they coded it where it can't?

 

[Dilip]

I don't think it works that way. You will have to buy a premium addon to get YouTube embed.

 

[Shawn Gossman1]

I don't think it works that way. You will have to buy a premium addon to get YouTube embed.

It actually looks like auto-embedding YouTube is a default feature!

Auto-embed links allows the user to have the ability to automatically embed any Youtube videos, Twitter tweets, Imgur images, Vine videos, and Instagram photos directly into topics and replies. This is powered by the oEMBED feature inside of WordPress. For a full list of what oEMBED supports in bbPress and WordPress go here.

To enable the ability to use oEMBED on bbPress topics and replies:

1. Go to Settings > Forums in the WordPress backend
2. Then in the Forum Features section make sure “Embed media (YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, etc…) directly into topics and replies” is enabled

https://codex.bbpress.org/features/auto-embed-links/

 

[Dilip]

Thanks. The last time I checked it was different. Maybe another WordPress forum. I will take a look.

 

[Aaron]

It's pretty good for Wordpress sites but I am personally not a fan as to get the same features as say phpBB or MyBB you have to have over a gazillion plugins.

 

[Regs1]

Honestly it is horrible.

Wordpress forum software solutions are sorely lacking though I suppose WPForo is OK.

 

[Uncrowned]

I remember WordPress forum plugins being a fairly option-filling market, but now they also seem to be disappearing. This one looks okay, but I'd only use it if the integration was super important.

 

[Shawn Gossman1]

Honestly it is horrible.

Wordpress forum software solutions are sorely lacking though I suppose WPForo is OK.

You'd almost be better off using BuddyPress and creating a community-like feature instead.

BBPress or WpForo for that matter isn't very modernized.