Did you think that bbPress had gone the way of the buffalo? No, it hasn’t. Though it’s been quite some time since we’ve seen much development on the bbPress front, the platform lives on within BuddyPress. Rich Fuller has created a suite of plugins that will compliment your group forums on BuddyPress. Check out the new BuddyPress Group Forum Extras at the WordPress repository. This set currently contains three plugins that will enhance the bbPress forum experience:
- Signatures
- BBCode Lite (or option for Shortcode)
- AJAXed Quote
For the time being, the signatures plugin html is limited to:
<a>, <strong>, and <i>
Signatures are a great addition to any forum. Users love the opportunity to customize their profiles and distinguish themselves in some way or another in the forums. The signature can also be added to the user’s general profile:
In the future, the plugin developer is considering adding the following functionality:
- Report Post to Mod (use notification system to group mods)
- Support Forums (run nongroup forums)
- Best Answer or bb-reputation (Karma)
- Signatures administration to include a admin defined set of html tag or bbcode
If you’re interested to add some input to the developer’s list of considerations, please contact him at the plugin’s home page or check out the thread dedicated to this plugin at the BuddyPress forums.
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March 16, 2010 
Thanks! :-P
I’m also working on bbPress favorites (or maybe a different name to avoid confusion with ‘Favorite’-ing an activity stream update) – though this will also require another theme edit for an action.
Thanks for the great post Sarah! You continually improve my site!
sarah, just an idea here….
it’d be nice for these posts if you could add a little meta that says what you tested this plugin on.
should I assume it’s the last stable version of wpmu?
thanks as always :)
~k~
i just updated the plugin to 0.1.5 which fixes a few wpmu only bugs (sorry about that)
yep – the 1.5 upgrade worked for me.
Kyle – Yes I always test on the latest. Sorry I forgot to mention that this time. Will keep it in mind!
Может тоже себе сделать, буду думать.
i add it to my plugins, is it stable version?