bbPress WP Tweaks
Adds bbPress forum specific sidebar, wrapper, widgets, user columns, login links and other tweaks.
4.2(11 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, bbPress WP Tweaks is a WordPress forum plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 77K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Downloads are up 10% this week. Top alternative: bbPress.
4.2/511 reviews
1.0K+active installs
77K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
bbPress WP Tweaks replaces regular sidebar with forum specific “bbPress sidebar”.
Watch plugin overview on YouTube
To setup forum specific sidebar you should first select correct forum wrapper file which has sidebar. Then select what action perform with existing sidebar: replace, prepend or append. Then select which sidebar to target with this action. You can also choose “none” option for target sidebar, in that case no bbPress sidebar will not be added to wordpress.
If nothing in forum sidebar then regular sidebar will be shown.
You can choose which forum wrapper template to use in plugin settings page or specify other custom wrapper file that exists in your theme.
Plugin tested with PHP version 5.6, 7.x and up to 8.4.
Features:
- bbPress specific sidebar instead…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Very helpful
by Martin Sauter·5 years ago
Being new to bbPress, this plugin helped me to set up my forum quickly.
Worked and then didn’t
by summoner12·6 years ago
I installed this and then it stopped working for me. I am not really sure why or how. The “not working” part is that once I activate this plugin my forums no longer show. You can see the root forum on the main forum page, but once you click on any of those forums you land on the intended page, but it’s empty.
Good plugin :)
by Aida711·7 years ago
We’ve used it for the forum login, registration and Lost password – I needed to follow a video on youtube on how to set it up but it works really well.
It appears to have other functionality but beyond my capabilities – would be great to have video tutorials showing how to do everything!
¡¡¡Awesome!!!
by MCD Diseño Web·7 years ago
Hi, thanks for this excellent plugin.
It works perfectly.
Regards 🙂
The greatest!
by evanevans333·9 years ago
For 4 weeks, I had been searching and testing plugins and methods to get a global sidebar setup in my forums. In the meantime, I was going in and manually setting a sidebar on every topic and forum that was created.
Finally, I came across this plugin, and right before trying it, I tried another one that promised the same. This other one didn’t work. So, I installed this one, with low hopes.
Bam! It truly worked, and it did it perfectly, in flying colors.
Kudos to the developer, he/she has their head screwed on straight! They know how to fix problems and do so elegantly. YES!
Download Trends
Today: 8Yesterday: 5This week: 45Period total: 4K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.5
57.7%
v1.4
38.3%
v1.3
4.0%
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Changelog
Version 1.5.1 (release date: 28.06.2025)
- Added: Shows current theme type,
ClassicorFSE (Full Site Editing, Block)theme. - Fixed: TypeError when calculating users’ last login date. Changed meta_key to unique value for avoiding conflicts. (Thank you for reporting)
Version 1.5 (release date: 27.06.2025)
- Added: Detection use of FSE theme. Shows instruction to fix theme compatibility…
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