Introduction To WordPress Forum

Lessons

1. Install BBPress

   Easy

   3 mins

   Type BBPress in the search bar of WordPress.org Open the first link and download it from the website. Then login into your website.
2. What is a Forum?

   Easy

   3 mins

   Forum is a great way where people or visitors can discuss their thoughts while they're using your WordPress post or comment section.
3. Different Forum Apps

   Easy

   5 mins

   There's a lot of forum apps you can use. Examples are Softaculous, Installatron, Simple Scripts, Simple- Press.
4. Forum Structure

   Easy

   3 mins

   Forum is perfect if you want to extend your website with a lightweight and feature-rich discussion board
5. Convert Other Forums to BBPress

   Easy

   5 mins

   So you’ve been using BuddyPress’ built-in group forums since BuddyPress 1.5, but would like to use the new bbPress plugin to power your forums instead.
6. Create Forum

   Easy

   6 mins

   On this video, we are going to begin building out our forms depending upon what are you creating your forms for, one example is the contact us form for the contact us page.
7. Creating Categories

   Easy

   5 mins

   Categories are commonly used to organized a post or a form into one or more topics or groups on related articles or page.
8. Customize Category Display

   Easy

   3 mins

   On this video, we are going to customize how the forms within the categories are displayed.
9. Creating Sticky and Supersticky Topics

   Easy

   4 mins

   On this video, we are going to cover topics and specifically "Sticky and Super sticky topics".
10. Creating a Registration Page

    Easy

    5 mins

    After creating a few forums, here in this video will show you on how to create a forum registration page for the clients making them contribute.
11. Customizing Search Boxes

    Easy

    5 mins

    In this video tutorial will help you customize your search box depending on what you want its use for.
12. Create Password Reset Page

    Easy

    2 mins

    So in this video tutorial will show you on how to create a lost password retrieval page. For the first step, you need to go to your dashboard area and click on the page tab and add new.
13. Forum Spam Prevention

    Easy

    6 mins

    On this video tutorial will show you on how to minimize the spam on your forum. Now a powerful and yet free WordPress plugin will handle the majority of both human and bots spam which is called WP-Spam Shield.