At last! Turnkey bbPress. Beautiful bbPress styles. Essential layout and user/admin usability options. No CSS or PHP coding required.
Finally, you can get a great looking bbPress site with just one plugin. No need for custom CSS or PHP programming. Turnkey bbPress! (Formerly named Weaver for bbPress by WeaverTheme.)
Get your bbPress site up and running with beautiful themed styling, plus all the essential layout and user/admin usability options needed to run a real world forum with Turnkey bbPress.
Turnkey bbPress was developed by the makers of the popular Weaver Xtreme WordPress theme, the original options based WP theme. If there’s one thing we know, it’s how to provide the features and options you need to build a great looking website. And now you can do that with a bbPress site.
We also know bbPress was designed to be lightweight and efficient, but that means that many features required to build and run a real-world forum are missing from the base ppPress plugin.
Turnkey bbPress makes it easy.
See Turnkey bbPress in action, live! Visit the Weaver Support Forum.
Just checkout all the features offered by Turnkey bbPress!
The default bbPress theme is okay – it works fairly blandly with almost any theme.
Turnkey bbPress adds a collection of several new bbPress Themes that blend beautifully with virtually any existing WP Theme, all with just a single pick from a list. Tweak any of the the basic pre-defined styles with additional check-box options that allow additional styling.
Pre-defined subThemes: Many pre-defined subThemes included, designed to work with nearly any WP Theme.
SubThemes Blend: SubThemes designed to blend with specific and general color themes.
Inherited WP Theme Style: The font family and link styles of your WordPress theme are used in the bbPress subTheme.
Forum Font Size: Set the base font size for your forum. One setting to make font size larger or smaller to match your WP theme.
Avatar Options: Extra styling options for the “Started by” and “Freshness” Participant avatars that make them really stand out.
Even/Odd Row Styling: Optional even/odd row background coloring.
Style Feature Buttons: Display “Subscribe”, “Create New Topic” and “Mark all as read” as theme matching buttons on right side.
bbPress Login Widget: The standard bbPress Login Widget and associated shortcodes are styled to match the theme.
Better Closed, Favorited, Subscribed: Show informative icons for Closed, Favorited, and Subscribed Topics and Forums.
Custom CSS: Add you own tweaks with custom CSS rules.
Your own bbPress.css: Provide your own custom version of bbPress.css if you don’t like our styles.
Hide various elements of Forum and Topic Lists.
Each of these features can be enabled separately.
Turnkey bbPress adds options that makes administering your bbPress Forum easier.
There are other excellent plugins available that can add more essential features to a bbPress Forum. Unfortunately, sometimes they add features that don’t including styling that matches the rest of your forum, or doesn’t work will with some WP Themes. We’ve added integrated styling support for other plugins.
The developer of this plugin also created the original and best options based WordPress theme: Weaver Xtreme. Weaver Xtreme has its own bbPress based support forum. In the process of running the support forum, we’ve found that the features included in this plugin are really essential for running a truly vibrant forum, especially one used for technical support.
Turnkey bbPress is small and efficient. Options are only loaded and used if individually enabled. No unnecessary code bloat!
We do not support Turnkey bbPress on the default WordPress Support Forum. Instead, we support it only on our own bbPress based forum: Weaver Support Forum.
It is easy to get started with Turnkey bbPress. Get more documentation at Turnkey bbPress Guide.
This plugin includes GPL code derived from several other bbPress plugins. I would like to acknowledge the efforts put into developing those plugins.
Installation is free, quick, and easy. Use the standard WordPress plugin installation admin panel.
Turnkey bbPress has been around for a couple of years now. Just like bbPress itself, it is quite stable, and we’ve not received many questions yet. If you have questions, we suggest our Forum at the Weaver Support Forum