13 Powerful WordPress Free bbPress Plugins

13 Powerful WordPress Free bbPress Plugins

bbPress is a great add-on for WordPress for easily adding a forum to your site while retaining the same membership structure and is easily integrated with your existing theme. Users may not find your bbPress driven forum interactive if you are not installing the plugins.

Here, in this post I have compiled a list of free bbPress wordpress plugins that you must install in order to make your forum much more robust, powerful, flexible and different from others. You may be interested in the following posts: Feedback Form WordPress Widgets, Best Premium Drupal Themes and Keywords Plugins for WordPress.

1. Super Socializer

Super Socializer is a complete package to provide your website all the social features (Social Login, Sharing, Commenting, Feed and more) in a single plugin.

Super Socializer
Super Socializer

2. Social Login, Social Sharing, Social Commenting

Install this plugin to enable Social Login, Social Sharing, and Social Commenting on your WordPress site. It also captures users’ social profile data, store them in WP database and automatically creates profile.

Social Login, Social Sharing, Social Commenting
Social Login, Social Sharing, Social Commenting

3. bbPress – Private Replies

This add-on plugin for bbPress will allow your forum posters to mark their replies as private, meaning that only the original poster and forum moderators can see the content of the reply.

bbPress - Private Replies
bbPress – Private Replies

4. Author Avatars List

This plugin makes it easy to display lists of user avatars on your (multiuser) blog. It also allows to insert single avatars for blog users or any email address into a post or page.

Author Avatars List
Author Avatars List

5. bbPress Like Button

bbPress Like button adds automatically a Like Button (Youtube alike) in all your forum posts and replies. It allows users to give some greetings to others contributions.

bbPress Like Button
bbPress Like Button

6. WordPress Social Sharing Optimization

WordPress Social Sharing Optimization (WPSSO) adds HTML meta tags to the head section of WordPress webpages for improved Google Search ranking and sharing on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, Tumblr and other social websites.

WordPress Social Sharing Optimization
WordPress Social Sharing Optimization

7. Spam Destroyer

Stops automated spam while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenter. The Spam Destroyer plugin is intended to be effortless to use, simply install and enjoy a spam free website.

Spam Destroyer
Spam Destroyer

8. bbPress – Sort Topic Replies

Adds a simple option on the Forum’s side bar to choose if you want the replies to any topic in the selected Forum to be sorted in Ascending or Descending order.

bbPress - Sort Topic Replies
bbPress – Sort Topic Replies

9. WP User Avatar

WP User Avatar enables you to use any photo uploaded into your Media Library as an avatar. This means you use the same uploader and library as your posts.

WP User Avatar
WP User Avatar

10. User Switching

This plugin allows you to quickly swap between user accounts in WordPress at the click of a button. You’ll be instantly logged out and logged in as your desired user.

User Switching
User Switching

11. Anti-spam by CleanTalk

The plugin is a client application for cloud anti-spam CleanTalk.org, which are daily protects 5k web-sites from spam bots.

Anti-spam by CleanTalk
Anti-spam by CleanTalk

12. MailChimp for WordPress

MailChimp for WordPress lets you create a highly customizable sign-up form which you can display wherever you want it to display using a simple shortcode, widget or template function.

MailChimp for WordPress
MailChimp for WordPress

13. Add Link to Facebook

Automatically add links to posts or pages that are being published to your Facebook wall, pages or groups. Simple one time setup and forget. The way links appear on Facebook can be customized.

Add Link to Facebook
Add Link to Facebook