Chubes

AI Bot for bbPress integrates seamlessly with your bbPress forums, allowing a configurable AI bot user to participate in discussions. The bot can be triggered by direct mentions (@YourBotUsername) or specific keywords within forum posts, leveraging context from the forum and optionally a remote WordPress site.
Currently uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT API. Future versions will migrate to our <a href="https://github.com/chubes4/ai-http-client" rel="nofollow ugc">AI HTTP Client library</a> to provide multi-provider support (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok, OpenRouter) with a unified interface.
Links: 
* <a href="https://chubes.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> – Visit the developer’s website 
* <a href="https://github.com/chubes4/ai-bot-for-bbpress" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Repository</a> – Source code, issues, and contributions 
* <a href="https://github.com/chubes4/ai-bot-for-bbpress/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">Support</a> – Report bugs or request features
<h3>Configuration</h3>
After activation, navigate to Settings > Forum AI Bot in your WordPress admin area to configure the following options:
<ul>
<li>OpenAI API Key: Your secret API key from OpenAI.</li>
<li>Bot User ID: The WordPress user ID of the account the bot will use to post replies.</li>
<li>System Prompt: Instructions defining the bot’s personality, role, and general behavior (e.g., “You are a helpful assistant for the Example Community forum.”).</li>
<li>Custom Prompt: Additional instructions appended to every API request, useful for guiding specific response formats or context usage.</li>
<li>Temperature: Controls the creativity/randomness of the AI’s responses (0 = deterministic, 1 = max creativity). Default is 0.5.</li>
<li>Trigger Keywords: A comma-separated list of keywords (in addition to mentions) that will trigger the bot to respond.</li>
<li>Local Search Limit: Maximum number of relevant posts/topics to retrieve from the local forum database for context. Default is 3.</li>
<li>Remote REST Endpoint URL: The full URL to the search endpoint provided by the BBP Bot Helper plugin installed on your remote site (e.g., <code>https://your-main-site.com/wp-json/bbp-bot-helper/v1/search</code>). Leave blank to disable remote context.</li>
<li>Remote Search Limit: Maximum number of relevant posts to retrieve from the remote endpoint for context. Default is 3.</li>
<li>Forum Access Control: Choose whether the bot responds in all forums or only selected ones. When set to “Selected Forums Only”, you can choose specific forums where the bot will be active.</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the OpenAI API to generate responses for the AI bot. This is essential for the plugin’s core functionality of providing AI-driven replies in bbPress forums.
<ul>
<li>Service: OpenAI API (specifically the Chat Completions endpoint).</li>
<li>Purpose: To generate intelligent and contextually relevant responses based on forum discussions and configured prompts.</li>
<li>Data Sent: When the bot is triggered (by a mention or keyword), the following types of data are sent to the OpenAI API:
<ul>
<li>The content of the post that triggered the bot.</li>
<li>Relevant conversation history from the current topic (including post content and author usernames/slugs).</li>
<li>Contextual information retrieved from the local WordPress database (titles, snippets, and URLs of relevant posts/pages based on keyword matching).</li>
<li>If configured, contextual information retrieved from a remote WordPress site via the BBP Bot Helper plugin (titles, snippets, and URLs of relevant posts/pages).</li>
<li>The system prompt, custom prompt, and temperature settings configured in the plugin’s admin page.</li>
<li>The structure of your bbPress forums (forum names, topic names, and their hierarchy).</li>
<li>The current date and time.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>When Data is Sent: Data is sent only when the bot is triggered to generate a response. This occurs after a user posts a new reply or topic that meets the trigger conditions (mentioning the bot or containing a specified keyword).</li>
<li>OpenAI API Terms of Service: <a href="https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-service</a></li>
<li>OpenAI API Privacy Policy: <a href="https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy</a></li>
</ul>
It is important to have an active OpenAI API key with sufficient credits for the bot to function. Please review OpenAI’s policies to understand how they handle the data sent to their API.
If the “Remote REST Endpoint URL” is configured, the plugin will also send search queries (derived from the conversation) to that endpoint to fetch additional context. This endpoint is typically on another WordPress site you control and that runs the companion “BBP Bot Helper” plugin. No user-specific data is sent to this remote endpoint beyond the search terms. The data received from this endpoint is then included in the information sent to the OpenAI API as described above.

AI Bot for bbPress

Integrates a configurable AI bot into bbPress forums, responding to mentions or keywords.

veppa

bbPress WP Tweaks replaces regular sidebar with forum specific “bbPress sidebar”.
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<a href="https://youtu.be/7LVt41oLscs" rel="nofollow ugc">Watch plugin overview on YouTube</a>
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.
<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>bbPress specific sidebar instead of default blog sidebar.</li>
<li>Change default wrapper for forum pages</li>
<li>bbPress login links widget</li>
<li>bbPress users widget </li>
<li>Login and register links under forum</li>
<li>Show forum description </li>
<li>Forum related columns for users view in admin area</li>
</ul>
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.
<h4>Demo</h4>
Check out one of my sites’ <a href="https://veppa.com/forums/" rel="nofollow ugc">bbPress forum page</a>.
<h4>Plugin home page</h4>
<a href="https://veppa.com/bbpress-wp-tweaks/" rel="nofollow ugc">bbPress wp tweaks plugin page & Documentation</a>.
<h4>What is next</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://veppa.com/http-requests-manager/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP_HTTP Requests Manager plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="https://veppa.com/share-button/" rel="nofollow ugc">Native Share Button – without plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="https://veppa.com/improve-pagespeed/" rel="nofollow ugc">Improve PageSpeed</a></li>
</ul>

bbPress WP Tweaks

Thanks a ton!
It solved many problems for us in implementing sidebar to our forum
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Very Nice Plugin

Adds bbPress forum specific sidebar, wrapper, widgets, user columns, login links and other tweaks.

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