Sam Bauers

bbPress Live allows the display of information from a 
<a href="https://bbpress.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">bbPress</a> 1.0 forum from inside a WordPress blog.
Specifically, it provides two new widgets:
<ul>
<li>bbPress Forum List – Provides a list or table of forums</li>
<li>bbPress Latest Topics – Provides a list or table of the latest topics</li>
</ul>
Each widget can be used multiple times, and configured individually.
There are also two functions for use in themes. These functions return a raw 
php array which can be manipulated inside the theme:
<ul>
<li><code>bbpress_live_get_forums()</code> – Provides an array of forums</li>
<li><code>bbpress_live_get_topics()</code> – Provides an array of the latest topics</li>
</ul>
bbPress Live can only connect to a bbPress forum running bbPress with a version of 
1.0 or higher. The bbPress blog must have XML-RPC enabled in it’s settings.
<h3>License</h3>
bbPress Live version 0.1.2 
Copyright (C) 2008 Sam Bauers (http://unlettered.org/)
bbPress Live comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is 
free software, and you are welcome to redistribute 
it under certain conditions.
See accompanying license.txt file for details.
<h3>Version History</h3>
<ul>
<li>0.1 : 
 Initial release</li>
<li>0.1.1 : 
 Change order of arguments in get_topics methods 
 Fix bad markdown in readme file</li>
<li>0.1.2 : 
 Sync up XML-RPC calls with latest bbPress methods 
 Add administration page for options</li>
</ul>

bbPress Live

bbPress Live allows you to pull data from a bbPress 1.0 forum using the new XML-RPC publishing API in bbPress.

dFactory

<a href="http://www.dfactory.eu/plugins/bbpress-notifications/" rel="nofollow ugc">bbPress Notifications</a> allows you to automatically send email notifications to specific users when new topics or replies are posted. It integrates seamlessly into WP, by adding new section to bbPress settings page, where you can configure your notifications.
For more information, check out plugin page at <a href="http://www.dfactory.eu/" rel="nofollow ugc">dFactory</a> or plugin <a href="http://www.dfactory.eu/support/forum/bbpress-notifications/" rel="nofollow ugc">support forum</a>.
<h4>Features include:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Send notification when New Topic is published</li>
<li>Send notification when New Reply is published</li>
<li>Specify email addresses for notifications</li>
<li>Design email templates with a number of shortcodes</li>
<li>Available shortcodes: [blogname], [reply-title], [reply-content], [reply-excerpt], [reply-url], [reply-author], [topic-title], [topic-url], [topic-author]</li>
<li>.pot file for translations included</li>
</ul>

bbPress Notifications

bbPress Notifications allows you to automatically send email notifications to specific users when new topics or replies are posted.

bbPress Live vs bbPress Notifications