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

gVectors Team

<p>wpForo Forums is the best WordPress forum plugin. Full-fledged yet easy and light forum solution for your WordPress website. Comes with modern and responsive forum layouts and styles. This WordPress forum plugin brings everything you need to run an efficient and professional community. Powerful and beautiful forum with unique features. The best alternative to bbPress forum plugin.</p>
<h4>5 Minute Forum Installation!</h4>
<pre><code>1. Activate plugin and find forums on /community/ page, (/community-2/ if /community/ is used),
2. Manage Forum Page, Title, etc in Dashboard > wpForo > Board > Edit Board admin page,
3. Manage Forums in Dashboard > wpForo > Forums admin page,
4. Manage Forum Menu in Dashboard > Appearance > Menu admin page,
5. Manage Forum Widgets in Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets admin page,
6. Manage Forum Colors in Dashboard > wpForo > Settings > Colors & Styles admin page, you can choose forum color styles.
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<p>Support Forum and Demo: <a href="https://wpforo.com/community/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://wpforo.com/community/</a><br />
Forum Documentation: <a href="https://wpforo.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://wpforo.com/docs/</a><br />
GDPR Compliance: <a href="https://wpforo.com/gdpr/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://wpforo.com/gdpr/</a></p>
<h4>Multi-layout WordPress Forum Plugin</h4>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/categories-and-forums/forum-layouts/extended-layout/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Extended Forum Layout</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/categories-and-forums/forum-layouts/simplified-layout/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Simplified Forum Layout</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/categories-and-forums/forum-layouts/qa-layout/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Question and Answer Forum Layout</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/categories-and-forums/forum-layouts/threaded-layout/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Threaded Forum Layout</strong></a></li>
</ol>
<h4>Migrate to wpForo</h4>
<p>Free Migration Tool Go2wpForo: <a href="https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/migrate-to-wpforo/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/migrate-to-wpforo/</a></p>
<pre><code>- Migrate bbPress forum to wpForo
- Migrate Asgaros forum to wpForo
- Migrate SimplePress forum to wpForo
- Migrate phpBB forum to wpForo
- Migrate SMF forum to wpForo
- Migrate Joomla Kunena forum to wpForo
- Migrate MyBB forum to wpForo
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<h4>Forum Integration</h4>
<p>wpForo forum plugin is well integrated with many Profile Builder and Paid Membership plugins, such as <strong>BuddyPress</strong>, <strong>Ultimate Members</strong>, <strong>WooCommerce Membership</strong>, <strong>Paid Memberships Pro</strong>, <strong>MemberPress</strong>, <strong>Groups</strong> and <strong>SureMembers</strong> plugins.</p>
<h4>Forum Translation</h4>
<p>wpForo is a WordPress forum plugin with all possibilities of plugin translation. We’d really appreciate if you could help <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wpforo/" rel="nofollow ugc">translating wpForo forum plugin to your language here</a>.</p>
<h4>FORUM FEATURES</h4>
<ul>
<li>Multi-board: Allows to have multiple separate forum pages</li>
<li>Multi-language: Allows to forums with different languages</li>
<li>Multi-layout: Four modern forum layouts (Q&A, Threaded…)</li>
<li>Designed for small and extremely large forums/communities.</li>
<li>Migrate from other forums using <a href="https://wpforo.com/community/migrate-to-wpforo-from-other-forum-plugins/migrate-to-wpforo-go2wpforo-tool/" rel="nofollow ugc">Go2wpForo</a> tool.</li>
<li>Four different forum layouts and designs.</li>
<li>Six set of forum color styles including dark style.</li>
<li>Super responsive forum on all kind of devices.</li>
<li>Live user notification system</li>
<li>Built-in forum SEO functions.</li>
<li>Built-in forum Sitemap and Search Engine ping.</li>
<li>Built-in forum Cache System.</li>
<li>Built-in forum Antispam and Akismet integration.</li>
<li>Advanced forum user profile system.</li>
<li>Forum Member Rating and Badges.</li>
<li>Built-in forum/topic subscription.</li>
<li>Drag and Drop forum management system.</li>
<li>Topic and Post front-end moderation.</li>
<li>Forum topics and posts Read / Unread logging.</li>
<li>Topic Tags and Tags Widget.</li>
<li>Forum styles with different colors.</li>
<li>Built-in, powerful forum Usergroup system.</li>
<li>Forum Access sets per Usergroup per Forum.</li>
<li>Forum Phrase System for quick translation.</li>
<li>WordPress .MO/.PO translation files.</li>
<li>Tools and options for GDPR Compliance</li>
<li>Social Network Share Buttons</li>
<li>BuddyPress Integration</li>
<li>Ultimate Member Integration</li>
</ul>
<h4>Need more forum features?</h4>
<p>Find wpForo forum plugin addons on <a href="https://gvectors.com/product-category/wpforo/" rel="nofollow ugc">gVectors Team website…</a></p>


wpForo Forum

Number one WordPress forum plugin. Full-fledged forum solution with modern and responsive forum design. Community builder WordPress forum plugin.

Multisite bbPress Slave vs wpForo Forum