Name: bbPress WP Tweaks
Rating: 4.2 (11 reviews)

설명

bbPress WP Tweaks replaces regular sidebar with forum specific “bbPress sidebar”.

To setup forum specific sidebar you should first select correct forum wrapper file which has sidebar. Then select what action perform with existing sidebar: replace, prepend or append. Then select which sidebar to target with this action. You can also choose “none” option for target sidebar, in that case no bbPress sidebar will not be added to wordpress.

If nothing in forum sidebar then regular sidebar will be shown.

You can choose which forum wrapper template to use in plugin settings page or specify other custom wrapper file that exists in your theme.

Plugin tested with PHP version 5.6, 7.x and up to 8.4.

Features:

bbPress specific sidebar instead of default blog sidebar.
Change default wrapper for forum pages
bbPress login links widget
bbPress users widget
Login and register links under forum
Show forum description
Forum related columns for users view in admin area

bbPress specific sidebar (works only on Classic themes) — you can use different sidebar on forum pages. You can choose which sidebar to replace, append or prepend to. Appending or prepending is useful if you only need to add couple forum related widgets. Custom sidebar will be used in all forum related pages including forum, topic, reply,and user profile pages.

Default wrapper for forum pages (works only on Classic themes) — bbPRess uses wrapper file in your theme in this order: ‘bbpress.php’, ‘forum.php’, ‘page.php’, ‘single.php’, ‘index.php’. First existing template file will be used. You can choose which template file to check first. Most themes don’t have sidebar in ‘page.php’, ‘single.php’ files, if you choose them then no sidebar will be shown in forums. On the other hand most themes ‘index.php’ file always has sidebar. If you cannot see forum sidebar then change this value to index.php in plugin settings (settings -> bbPress WP Tweaks ) page. If your theme has other non standard template files like “page-fullwidth.php” for example then you can use it by selecting “custom” option and writing page-fullwidth.php in text input field. If that file exists then it will be used as forum wrapper.

Font size — Simple switch to fix forum font size. Available sizes: XL, L, M, S, XS.

bbPress login links widget — if you want to display login and register links instead of login form in your sidebar then use this widget. By default bbPress will not show login links to visitors if they want to post in forum. Use this widget instead of login form in your bbPress sidebar.

bbPress users widget — used to display users linking to their profile pages ordered by:
* most topics with count
* most replies with count
* recently active with time
* online users with time
* new users with registration time
* old users with registration time

Login and register links under forum — will add login and register links where “You must be logged in to create new topics.” and “You must be logged in to reply to this topic.” messages shown. By default you will see above mentioned messages with no login or register links. With this options selected you will see under those messages login links and will be redirected back to that topic or forum after logging in using those links. Login and register links can be customized with custom HTML code to match your website design.

Show forum description — By default forum description is shown only on where forums are listed, not in forum page. With this options enabled you will show forum description on Forum page, on sub forums, on topics, on replies. So user will know what this forum about. If it is a product forum then you can add product image, links or buttons to product page, pricing/purchase page etc. This will make navigation between product and forum a lot easier.

Forum related columns for users view in admin area — is must have feature to have for any forum administrator. With this option enabled you will have forum related sortable columns “number of topics”, “number of replies”, “registration date”, “last active date” in “Users” admin page. Topic and reply counts are linked to user profile pages. You can sort by those columns and see latest registered users or users with most topics. Each column seperately can be switched off using “Screen Options” inside users page.

Disable not used features of plugin — you can disable sidebar by selecting “none” as target sidebar. Disable widgets by unchecking relaed checkboxes in plugin options page. All other features also can be individually enabled or disabled in plugin options page.

Attention: Sidebar and Wrapper options do not work in FSE (Full Site Editing) themes.

Demo

Check out one of my sites’ bbPress forum page.

Plugin home page

bbPress wp tweaks plugin page & Documentation.

What is next

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Plugin options page
Plugin options page continued
Forum has separate sidebar with different widgets. You can select which sidebar to target and replace/append/prepend widgets to that sidebar on forum pages.
Sidebar and widgets editable in widgets admin area and in theme customizer when navigated to forum pages.
bbPress related sortable columns (number of topics, number of replies, registration date, last activity date) added to users admin area.
Forum description can be shown in top of related forum, sub forums, topics, and replies. Login links can be shown under the forum for adding new topic or reply.

설치

Updgrading From A Previous Version

To upgrade from a previous version of this plugin, delete the entire folder and files from the previous version of the plugin and then follow the installation instructions below.

Installing The Plugin

Extract all files from the ZIP file, making sure to keep the file structure intact, and then upload it to /wp-content/plugins/.

This should result in the following file structure:

- wp-content
 - plugins
 - bbpress-wp-tweaks
 | bbpress-wp-tweaks.php

| readme.txt
| style.css

Then just visit your admin area and activate the plugin.

Or use plugin installer by navigating to “Plugins” -> “Add new” page and search for “bbPress wp tweaks”. Then click install and then activate buttons for related plugin.

Using The Plugin

Add bbPress login links and other bbPress related widgets to bbPress sidebar in “Appearence” -> “Widgets” page
Select forum wrapper file in plugin settings page (“Settings” -> “bbPress WP Tweaks”)
Check other options for tweaking your forum

FAQ

Does bbPRess sidebar work with FSE (Full Site Editing, Block) themes?

No, it does not. Because there is no sidebar or widgets in FSE themes.

“bbPRess sidebar” only works with Classic Themes.

Even if you can see and edit widgets in admin area, FSE themes does not support sidebars and widgets.

How to fix “white screen” error on bbPress Forum page while using FSE themes?

Use “Enable bbPress for Block Themes” plugin to fix “white screen” error for bbPRess forums in FSE themes.

Important: This fix will not enable “bbPress sidebar” for your forums.

How to know if I am using Classic or FSE (Full Site Editing) theme?

Navigate to “Settings” “bbPRess WP Tweaks” page. You will see one of following messages:

You are using: ✓ Classic theme.
You are using: FSE (Full Site Editing) theme.

Does this plugin support other languages?

Yes, it does. See the WordPress Codex for details on how to make a translation file. Then just place the translation file, named bbpress-wp-tweaks-[value in wp-config].mo, into the plugin’s /languages/ folder.

후기

Martin Sauter 2021년 4월 3일

Being new to bbPress, this plugin helped me to set up my forum quickly.

summoner12 2019년 5월 8일

I installed this and then it stopped working for me. I am not really sure why or how. The “not working” part is that once I activate this plugin my forums no longer show. You can see the root forum on the main forum page, but once you click on any of those forums you land on the intended page, but it’s empty.

Aida711 2018년 10월 13일

We’ve used it for the forum login, registration and Lost password – I needed to follow a video on youtube on how to set it up but it works really well. It appears to have other functionality but beyond my capabilities – would be great to have video tutorials showing how to do everything!

MCD Diseño Web 2018년 7월 29일

Hi, thanks for this excellent plugin. It works perfectly. Regards 🙂

evanevans333 2016년 9월 3일

For 4 weeks, I had been searching and testing plugins and methods to get a global sidebar setup in my forums. In the meantime, I was going in and manually setting a sidebar on every topic and forum that was created. Finally, I came across this plugin, and right before trying it, I tried another one that promised the same. This other one didn’t work. So, I installed this one, with low hopes. Bam! It truly worked, and it did it perfectly, in flying colors. Kudos to the developer, he/she has their head screwed on straight! They know how to fix problems and do so elegantly. YES!

General Seed 2016년 9월 3일

works fine, please keep updated. Thanks for it, saved to me tons of work

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변경이력

Version 1.5.1 (release date: 28.06.2025)

Added: Shows current theme type, Classic or FSE (Full Site Editing, Block) theme.
Fixed: TypeError when calculating users’ last login date. Changed meta_key to unique value for avoiding conflicts. (Thank you for reporting)

Version 1.5 (release date: 27.06.2025)

Added: Detection use of FSE theme. Shows instruction to fix theme compatibility.
Added: Fixing bbPress font size option.

Version 1.4.4 (release date: 13.01.2020)

Checks if current post variable exists before using its ID
Plugin compatible with php8.

Version 1.4.3 (release date: 06.12.2018)

Removed merging empty array

Version 1.4.2 (release date: 09.10.2018)

Removed deprecated create_function directive

Version 1.4.1 (release date: 14.12.2017)

Removed setting default value to forum wrapper. It was breaking forum for some themes that was generating excerpts when called index.php file.
Fixed error related to some php versions used in users widget
Translated plugin to Russian and Turkish.

Version 1.4 (release date: 12.12.2017)

Chaneged sidebar auto detection to selecting in admin area
Added more forum wrappers and admin definable custom wrapper
Added Forum users widget
Fixed login links widget
Added login links to places where login required for adding new topic and reply. Added option formating those links.
Added option to show forum description
Added forum related columns to users table in admin area
Added last activity time usermeta value
Added option to disable not used widgets offered by this plugin
Added option to redirect 404 page for authors to related forum profile page
Changed minimum requred version WP 4.7, bbPress 2.5
Made plugin php7 ready

Version 1.3.1

Minor bugfixes

Version 1.3

Added compatability to WordPress version 3.5 and greater

Version 1.2

Added compatability to bbPress version 2.1 and greater
Displaying existing forum wrappers in bold in plugin settings.

Version 1.1

Changed how main sidebar is detected. This adds compatability to more themes.

Version 1.0.0

Initial release of my edition of the plugin.

Very helpful

Worked and then didn’t

Good plugin 🙂

¡¡¡Awesome!!!

The greatest!

Great and favorited

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