JordiPlana

<p>bbPress Protected Forums adds a metabox, shown while editing a forum, that allows you to disable new topic creation for determined user roles.<br />
The plugin is perfect for those situations that you may want your users to see the list of topics of a forum but don’t want them to create new topics.</p>
<h4>bbPress 2.x</h4>
<p>Plugin fully compatible with bbPress 2.x</p>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<p>bbPress Protected Forums is currently in:</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin comes with .po files. Feel free to translate it to your language!</p>
<h4>Official site</h4>
<p>For more information about this plugin you can check the <a href="http://jordiplana.com/bbpress-protected-forums-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">official site</a>.</p>


bbPress Protected Forums

Thank you for this great plugin , still working after 3 years
Regards
The X Learner



Great , Still working

Disables new topic creation in some forums for determined roles.

Joshua Parker

<p><a href="http://tinyforum.us/" rel="nofollow ugc">tinyForum</a> is a simple and lightweight forum built using the <a href="http://tinyphp.us/" rel="nofollow ugc">tinyPHP MVC Framework</a>. With this widget, you can display a set number of recent topics from a tinyForum installation. If you would like to integrate your members with tinyForum, I suggest checking out the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-db-auth-reloaded/" rel="ugc">External Database Authentication Reloaded plugin</a>.</p>


WP tinyForum Widget

A sidebar widget that displays a certain number of topics from a tinyForum installation.

bbPress Protected Forums vs WP tinyForum Widget