Kiera Howe

<p>BBPress Templater – quick creation of BBPress Forums from a predefined template.</p>
<h3>Instructions</h3>
<p>Install</p>
<ul>
<li>Install the plugin</li>
<li>Activate the plugin</li>
<li>You will now see a “BBTemplates” item on your menu in the admin</li>
</ul>
<p>Create your Template</p>
<ul>
<li>Open “BBTemplates” from the admin panel</li>
<li>Choose Add New</li>
<li>Name it something</li>
<li>In the forums section, create a tree of forums that will be created.<br />
— Add New items, then drag them into the appropriate locations on the tree</li>
</ul>
<p>Deploying your Template</p>
<ul>
<li>Open “BBTemplates” from the admin panel</li>
<li>Open the template you would like to deploy</li>
<li>Under the “Freate Forums from this template” section, Enter a name and select “go”<br />
—  A new forum with the specified name will be created in the root of the site.<br />
— Then all the forums you specified in the tree, will be created in that forum.</li>
</ul>


bbtemplate

BBPress Templater - quick creation of BBPress Forums from a predefined template.

dFactory

<p><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.</p>
<p>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>.</p>
<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.

bbtemplate vs bbPress Notifications