rexgoode

<p>**Forum Restrict* is a plugin that allows an administrator to restrict certain forums to certain users. It also allows users to apply for admission to certain forums and for the administrator to approve those applications.</p>
<p><strong>Plugin Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Mark certain forums as restricted (by <em>Forum Restrict</em>), meaning they can only be viewed by users an admin assigns as a member of the forum.</li>
<li>Mark or unmark certain users are members of certain forums.</li>
<li>Search for users to manually add to forums.</li>
<li>Allow users to apply to be members of a restricted forum.</li>
<li>Approve applications to join restricted forums.</li>
</ul>


Forum Restrict

A plugin that allows restricting forums to certain users.

Ismail

<p>bbPress Messages – Simple yet powerful private messaging system tailored for bbPress.</p>
<h3>What’s New in 2.0?</h3>
<h4>Fully Optimized</h4>
<p>Now bbPress Messages loads faster due to optimization and messages caching.</p>
<h4>Background Schedules</h4>
<p>For better experience and load time, now the tasks are processed in the background. Tasks that would take some time to finish such as email notifications, after send events, cleanup schedules and others.</p>
<h4>Translation ready</h4>
<p>Now you can use the languages files to <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers" rel="nofollow ugc">translate</a> bbPress Messages to your language. You can also contribute your translations and <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbp-messages" rel="nofollow ugc">help translate this plugin</a>.</p>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<p>We’ve added couple shortcodes and rewrote older shortcodes, you can find out about shortcodes in the shortcodes tab in the settings page.</p>
<h4>Widgets</h4>
<p>We’ve redesigned the widgets for 2.0! Navigate to your dashboard and search for bbPM widgets now.</p>
<p>Other than that, bbPress Messages 2.0 is easy to extend, supports multisite installations, and we will be working on some free addons to extend its features and improve more. Please consult the project Github page <a href="https://github.com/elhardoum/bbp-messages" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/elhardoum/bbp-messages</a> to report a bug, contribute to the project or make suggestions.</p>
<p>If this is the first time you update, you should be migrating your older messages from the legacy database table to the new one. This could be done using the import tab in settings.</p>
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<p><em>More documentation coming soon..</em></p>
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bbPress Messages

Giving myself a review..
Works perfect, simple code, clean design, you can use this plugin with or without BuddyPress with no issues or conflicts.



simple and working

Works Fine but the text is written in hard. No translation possible. Not usable in my lang ! Too bad.

Front-end-pm is a very good alternative.

Translation impossible

I could customize the plugin via filters etc. Works good, so go ahead and install it. 
We translated the plugin ourself via PoEdit and we want to give that back.

Does what it says and very happy with it as a developer

bbPress Messages - Simple yet powerful private messaging system tailored for bbPress.

Forum Restrict vs bbPress Messages