Forums (bbPress)

The forum list, for sites running bbPress rather than ForumWP. Every forum a member may see, with its description, how busy it is, and its topics one tap away.

Before you start


Plugin	bbPress — or BuddyBoss Platform with its Forums component on
Endpoint group	bbPress
Plan	Every plan

Add it to your app

Drag Forums — the card showing the bbPress logo — onto a navigation bar or into the side drawer.

Place Forum Feed alongside it if you also want a single list of everything, which is how most members prefer to read.

Settings

Setting	What it does	Default
Title, Description	Shown at the top	Empty
Group by category	Nests each category’s forums under it	On
Search	Shows a search box above the list	On
Restrictions	Which roles see the tab	Everyone

Searching flattens the tree: a matching forum inside a category that does not match would otherwise be invisible.

How bbPress forums are arranged

bbPress has no category taxonomy. A forum is either a category, which holds other forums and no topics, or a forum, which holds topics. Only forum rows open; a category row is a heading. A category’s counts include everything in the forums beneath it, so the number means something.

Who sees which forum

bbPress has three visibility tiers, and the middle one surprises people:

Tier	Who can read it
Public	Everyone, signed in or not
Private	Any signed-in member — bbPress grants this to the Participant role by default
Hidden	Moderators and keymasters only

Private does not mean a chosen few. If you want a forum only your team can read, make it Hidden. The app draws a padlock badge on anything that is not public, and never lists a forum the viewer may not open.

Forum Feed (bbPress) — topics from every forum in one list
New Topic (bbPress)
Forum Moderation (bbPress)

The bbPress forum tree, and one forum opened

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