Plugin Review – bbp Style Pack

Plugin Review – bbp Style Pack

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

Version Tested: V 3.8.2

bbp Style Pack is a huge styling plugin for bbPress and more besides. Using bbp Style Pack you can change the look and feel of just about any element of your bbPress forums, for example you can control the colours and font sizes of all elements of your forums listing page, you can do the same with each individual forum topics list page and you can control the same elements for the individual topic and reply page.

It should be noted that this plugin have features for both BuddyPress and Standalone bbPress installations and therefore some features may not be so relevant to BuddyPress installs.

Once you install and activate the plugin you will be able to access the bbp Style Pack settings via the Dashboard>>Settings>>bbp Style Pack page. Once there you will find twenty different tabs of forum settings and information.

bbp Style Pack does more than just styling; it comes with it’s own Recent Replies widget and also allows you to insert custom CSS into your forum pages, it allows you to change the forum breadcrumb settings plus a whole lot more.

Feature Review

The following explains broadly the contents of the Dashboard>>Settings>>bbp Style Pack page.

Forums Index Styling

This tab holds all the options for styling the Forums Index Page

Forum Templates

This holds pre-built templates that you could apply to your forums.

Forum Display

This section have several forum display options.

Freshness Display

This provides options to add a topic freshness display to topic lists.

Breadcrumbs

This section controls the display of breadcrumbs in the forum pages

Buttons

This tab add “Create Topic”, “Subscribe” and “Profile” buttons to the forum index page.

Login

This page adds additional locations for displaying the login button.

Forum Roles

This tab controls how roles are displayed in the forums

Topic Order

Changes the order that topics are loaded in the topics list.

Topics Index Styling

This tab has the options for styling the Topics Index page

Topic/Reply Styling

This tab shows the options for styling the topic/reply to topic area.

Topic/Reply Form

This section has the settings for the topic reply form.

Profile

This section allows bbPress specific profiles to be turned off etc.

Shortcodes

Details of how to use the shortcodes bundled with the plugin.

Widgets

Details of the Widgets bundled with the plugin

Latest Activity Widget Styling

Styling options for the Latest Activity widget.

Custom CSS

A place to enter custom CSS

CSS Location

The location of the custom CSS file.

I discovered bbp Style Pack a while back and after playing with it once this has become a must have companion to any bbPress install I manage, it is highly recommended – 11 out of 10. A truly Awesome plugin!

My Star Rating

Other Peoples Reviews

trucmortal

wonderful plugin. excellent description of settings with examples!

your approach to the matter is very convenient in practice for the user. thx!

September 19, 2023

TreeTrail (aprilschmitt27)

Really Great Plugin and Support

"bbp style pack" is a really great free WordPress plugin! When I used their free support this week, codejp3 was super awesome.

August 28, 2023

(reedy)

Essential Plugin!

I cannot imagine running a bbpress forum without this plugin. It's completely indispensable as far as I am concerned — and, any time I have a problem (very rare and often related to my own customizations) the support is fantastic and highly responsive.

July 5, 2023

Mauricevdh

Excellent service

I use this plugin for almost 3 years and it's great. Really helpfull. Also Robin created a plugin for me, specially for my needs. Even after 4 months he helps me with some issues.

May 5, 2023

3dbyte

excellent

I thank to Robin for this great plugin. You can customize easily your bbpress forum.

March 10, 2023

Paul Hawkins (XPiRED)

Epic plugin for BBPress

By far the best plugin for BBPress. Wow. The support is exceptional too 🙂

March 3, 2023

digifessor.com (digifessor)

Excellent Plugin

Just install this plugin. You will love it!

February 28, 2023

codejp3

Swiss Army Knife for bbPress

I've been a user of this plugin for years. It's a HUGE time-saver customizing the look-and-feel of bbPress forums and even adds some essential forum functions like subscriptions, moderation, and site integrations. [...] Disclosure: I've contributed code to this plugin, so of course my rating is biased. Don't take my word for it, just look at the swift responses in the support forum and the abundance of 5-star reviews. Read more »

February 5, 2023

DeepBlue (deepblue5)

The Best plugin for BBpress !

<p>The best plugin for BBpress</p> [...]<p>You can custom everything for your bbpress forum<br />and adds must have features :</p> <p><br />Quote<br />Moderation<br />Rich editor reply form<br />Forum roles<br />Widgets</p> <p>and much more<br />...</p> <p>A must have !</p> <p>Congrats<br /><br /></p> Read more »

January 18, 2023

Llewen (llewen)

Helps fix a lot of the deficiencies of bbpress

How do you make a silk purse out of a pig's ear? You don't, however, this plugin will make the ever-so-clunky, awkward and generally ugly bbpress prettier and more functional. [...] Just be prepared to spend an awful lot of time going through settings. There are a lot of them. But overall the developers of this plugin deserve a huge thankyou and kudos for making bbpress an almost acceptable forums solution for WordPress websites, and it's free. They deserve free beer for that, at the very least. This plugin is a must-have if you are going to use bbpress on your website. Read more »

August 6, 2021