How to create your community radio forum in bbPress

The Pro Radio theme for WordPress just got better! You can now create your own forum easily and without extra costs, with the popular bbPress plugin, perfect for your fans, community, and listeners.

What is bbPress

The free plugin bbPress is an add-on for your WordPress website to add forum functionalities such as discussion and user management. You can turn your entire website into a forum, or just add the forum as part of your existing website. The plugin bbPress is fast and light, open-source, and easy to use. It was created back in 2004, to manage the official WordPress.org support forums. One of the key concepts of this plugin is simplicity: in fact, it doesn’t overload your website with a bloat of options and heavy functions but focuses on the core essential features to run a forum, such as roles management, moderation, and topics management.

It allows managing multiple moderators, multiple forums, multiple topics, and, of course, multiple replies. You can also set private topics and forums, to limit access for specific user roles.

It integrates seamlessly with the default WordPress registration system, without adding separate tables to your database.

What is bbPress for?

  • bbPress is perfect to create your community website, like local news portals, where people can talk about the events and facts of their community online
  • Educational purposes: is perfect to allow students and teachers to discuss online study topics or fun ideas!
  • Sport or hobby clubs, where people can share their own ideas, questions and pictures
  • Fun and leisure, or travels, cooking, and any other interesting argument

How to install the plugin

To install the plugin is extremely simple:

  • In your wp-admin, go to plugins and click Add New
  • Search for “bbpress” in the search form
  • Install and activate the plugin
  • Optionally, import the demo contents

Automatic customizations

Without a single line of code, your bbPress forum will inherit the styling of your website, taking colors, fonts, corners and shadows from the customizer options. Your forum will match your brand style immediately, without any hassle.

bbPress will automatically use:

  • Your custom colors
  • Your fonts
  • Your menu settings
  • Your links color

No coding required!

community forum bbpress in wordpress

Login, registration and password restore

Using the standard bbPress shortcodes, you can easily create your login, registration and password recovery forms for the users. Your pages will look good and neat, without any effort. Our documentation covers the setup with a clear and quick tutorial. No programming, no headaches: simple and easy!

radio station wordpress forum with bbpress

Form in sidebar

Also adding a login form in the off-canvas sidebar is easy: with the widget area you can easily place a login shortcode on your sidebar and allow a quick login for your users from any page.

bbpress login widget sidebar

Step-by-step tutorial:

Our documentation covers completely every step, from the installation to the setup. The process takes about 10 minutes, to have a full functional forum for your community!

With the Pro Radio WordPress Theme and bbPress, creating your community radio station is a breeze!

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