Plugin Review – bbp Toolkit
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-toolkit/
Version Tested: V 1.0.11
bbp Toolkit is a plugin that allows the site admin to make various styling changes to a sites bbPress forum pages plus more besides.
Once installed, the plugin creates a settings menu item in Dashboard>>Tools>>bbp Toolkit. From here you can access five menu tabs – bbPress Global, bbPress Information, bbPress Performance, Close Forums and Basic System Information.
bbPress Global tab
From here you can change numberous aspects of bbPress Global settings including setting Notify to be always set to on by default, moving the subscribe menu item to the right side of the page, changing how the forum breadcrumbs are displayed etc.
bbPress Information tab
This tab allows you to change a number of the bbPress default information items, such as the text to display when a forum is empty or when the user has the ability to post unrestricted HTML content.
bbPress Performance tab
bbPress Performance gives you the option to remove bbPress CSS style from all pages except the forum pages, thus minimising the code that is loaded for those pages.
Close Forums Tab
This tab allows the admin to close forums to new topics except for specific roles.
Basic Information tab
This section gives you a list of all plugins loaded on the site plus other system information for the site, useful when raising a support case and you need to pass on that information.
This plugin has some very nice features that tend to complement those of the other bbPress styling plugin bbp style pack and both will work together to give you a large amount of control over your bbPress site, be it bbPress only or in conjunction with BuddyPress, I give this plugin a score of 9 out of 10.
My Star Rating
Other Peoples Reviews
Igor (igorpedro)
Great and usefull plugin
Great and usefull plugin for BBPress
December 5, 2020
teashaw
Please don't use this plugin -2020
I have used this plugin for a while and recently my website has been attacked several days a week because some bug and leaks of this plugin (I found it through auditing all the mysql logs) [...]
After disabling this plugin all the things go well.
So be very careful for using it, as this plugin is not updated for years. Read more »June 9, 2020
blackdeer
Great plugin
If you manage forums, you probably want this
September 27, 2018
Pexle Chris (pexlechris)
Usefull but with No support
It is a very usefull plugin, but it has no support!
It has also a bug and it doesn't subscribe new registered users
September 4, 2018
LucasHilty
Useful. Be careful with the "Remove bbpress css style from all pages except..."
I really appreciate the ability to manage subscriptions and customize bbPress message text. [...]
I ticked "Remove bbpress css style from all pages except forum pages." under Extras, and most of my site pages returned 404s. The home page, which is built with Page Builder, still loaded fine. Unticking the box and uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin seems to be working. Read more »September 14, 2017
strike3
Just what we needed! The Subscriptions part should be in BBPress core!
We have lots of users on our forums and needed a way to manage the subscriptions. I was surprised that BBPress had no built-in way to do this easily, but this plugin saved the day!
August 7, 2017
Samara (spadilla)
Simple
Easy to use and does what it should out of the box.
January 30, 2017
mike.r
very nice
added tons of dirty hacks, before i found this easy plugin.
September 3, 2016
rodolvertice
Smart
Perfect to unclutter your forum page.
September 3, 2016
miklosgyorgy
Useful features
Adds a number of small but useful features to customize bbpress - great plugin.
September 3, 2016
I wanted to comment that I had a pretty serious problem with this plugin: I’m working with a forum and it only shows 52 created forums, in Close Forum, and I’ve already exceeded that number. If someone had the same problem, please comment if you can solve it
Hi there, did you report this to the plugin author? He’s very good at providing support so should be able to help