Markus Echterhoff

<p>If you have a multisite setup, you normally cannot have the same bbPress forums across all sites of the network. Now you can.</p>
<p>Install this plugin and activate it on the main site and for each subsite that should use the main site’s forums, or network-activate to enable on all sub sites.</p>
<p>If you want both main site and sub site forums displayed on the sub site, set a different root slug and topics slug in the forum settings. After that, both slugs will be known on the sub site and display their respective forums.</p>
<p><strong>BUT!</strong> There is a reason why you cannot normally do this and that is because the code base is not really supportive of it. I have monkey patched my way to the goal and I’m doing some evil black magic like hooking ‘query’ and running regular expressions on the query. All of this is only ever done to your forum pages, so be cool, give it a try. If it works for you: great. If it doesn’t: deactivate, relax, look for a different solution (or patch mine).</p>
<p><strong>Profile Note:</strong> Profiles are not merged! Favorites, topics started etc show main/sub site only. If you want your users to see all their subscriptions in one place, you’ll have to write some custom code and likely patch my code too.</p>
<p><strong>BuddyPress Note:</strong> It does work with network enabled BuddyPress, but they don’t play together nicely because of the BuddyPress/bbPress integration stuff. I have monkey patched this to work. If you do not have BuddyPress installed in /members/ you’ll have to monkey patch my monkey patch, please see the code. And as for the profiles: Same thing as with bbPress profiles.</p>


Multisite bbPress Slave

Make sub sites use the main site's bbPress forums

Milan Petrovic

<p>Adds various expansions and tools to the bbPress plugin implemented forums. Currently, included features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Quote Reply or Topic</li>
<li>Change allowed HTML tags and attributes</li>
<li>User signature with BBCode and HTML support</li>
<li>Signature field in BuddyPress profile edit</li>
<li>Toolbar menu integration</li>
<li>BBCode shortcodes with 30 BBCodes</li>
<li>Limit bbPress admin side access</li>
<li>Tweak: Disable bbPress breadcrumbs</li>
<li>Tweak: Topic tags field in reply form for author only</li>
<li>Tweak: Show lead topic</li>
<li>Tweak: Show search form for all forums and topics</li>
<li>Tweak: Disable ‘private’ title prefix</li>
<li>Topics View: Topics with most replies</li>
<li>Topics View: Latest Topics</li>
<li>Topics View: Topics by freshness</li>
</ul>
<h4>bbPress Plugin Versions</h4>
<p>GD bbPress Tools 3.5.3 supports bbPress 2.6.2 or newer. Older bbPress versions are no longer supported!</p>
<h4>More free dev4Press.com plugins for bbPress</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-forum-manager-for-bbpress/" rel="ugc">GD Forum Manager</a> – quick and bulk forums and topics edit</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-members-directory-for-bbpress/" rel="ugc">GD Members Directory</a> – show filterable list of all forum members</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-power-search-for-bbpress/" rel="ugc">GD Power Search</a> – add advanced search to the bbPress topics</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/" rel="ugc">GD bbPress Attachments</a> – attachments for topics and replies</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-topic-polls/" rel="ugc">GD Topic Polls</a> – add polls to the bbPress topics</li>
</ul>
<h4>Upgrade to GD bbPress Toolbox Pro</h4>
<p>The Pro version contains many more great features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Enhanced attachments features</li>
<li>Limit file types attachments upload</li>
<li>Add custom file types for upload</li>
<li>BBCodes editor toolbar</li>
<li>Report topics and replies</li>
<li>Say thanks to forum members</li>
<li>Query Performance Booster</li>
<li>Various SEO features</li>
<li>Various privacy features</li>
<li>Enable TinyMCE editor</li>
<li>Private topics and replies</li>
<li>Auto closing of inactive topics</li>
<li>Notification email control</li>
<li>Show user stats in topics and replies</li>
<li>Track new and unread topics</li>
<li>Mute Forums and Users</li>
<li>Great new responsive admin UI</li>
<li>Setup Wizard</li>
<li>Forum based settings overrides</li>
<li>Improved BuddyPress support</li>
<li>40 BBCodes (including Hide and Spoiler)</li>
<li>19 more Topics Views</li>
<li>9 additional widgets</li>
<li>Many great tweaks</li>
<li>And much, much more</li>
</ul>
<p>With more features on the roadmap exclusively for Pro version.</p>
<ul>
<li>More information about <a href="https://www.dev4press.com/plugins/gd-bbpress-toolbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">GD bbPress Toolbox Pro</a></li>
<li>More Premium plugins for bbPress <a href="https://www.dev4press.com/bbpress-club/" rel="nofollow ugc">bbPress Plugins Club</a></li>
</ul>


GD bbPress Tools


Great support by the editor for a long time. Thanks!


Works fine for more than a decade!

Adds different expansions and tools to the bbPress plugin powered forums: BBCode support, signatures, various tweaks, custom views, quote...

Multisite bbPress Slave vs GD bbPress Tools