Best forum plugins for WordPress
The most popular forum plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. bbPress leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of wpForo Forum (20K+) and Asgaros Forum (10K+). All 98 plugins tagged “forum” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 forum plugins
- 1.bbPress
The most installed forum plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 343 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
wpForo Forum20K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 390 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 3.
Asgaros Forum10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 210 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 4.FluentCommunity
8K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 98 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
- 5.
bbp style pack6K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 100 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 6.
Simple Ajax Chat2K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 215 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 7.Private groups
1K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 49 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.
bbPress WP Tweaks1K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 11 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 9.
WP Discourse1K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 8 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
Toolbox for Asgaros Forum900+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 77 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
All 98 plugins tagged “forum”
bbPress
#426by John James Jacoby12 days ago
bbPress is forum software for WordPress.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 3.9(343)
- Downloads
- 2K/day

wpForo Forum
Up in the last 7 days:5#1,377by Tomdever6 days ago
Number one WordPress forum plugin with AI features. Full-fledged forum solution with modern forum design. Community builder WordPress forum plugin.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.7(390)
- Downloads
- 637/day

Asgaros Forum
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,934by Asgaros16 days ago
Asgaros Forum is the best forum-plugin for WordPress! It comes with dozens of features in a beautiful design and stays simple and fast.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(210)
- Downloads
- 175/day
FluentCommunity
Up in the last 7 days:7#2,357by WPManageNinja3 days ago
Get a fast & all-in-one community plugin. Create unlimited communities, and courses with robust social networking and LMS features.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.8(98)
- Downloads
- 209/day

bbp style pack
#2,867by Robin W23 days ago
For bbPress - Lets you style bbPress, and add display features
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.9(100)
- Downloads
- 100/day

Simple Ajax Chat
Down in the last 7 days:8#4,572by Jeff Starr2 months ago
Display an Ajax-powered chat box anywhere. Lightweight, flexible, fast, and secure. Fully customizable with many options.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.9(215)
- Downloads
- 42/day
Private groups
Down in the last 7 days:17#5,572by Robin W2 months ago
For bbPress - Creates private forum groups
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(49)
- Downloads
- 23/day

bbPress WP Tweaks
Down in the last 7 days:6#6,103by veppa11 months ago
Adds bbPress forum specific sidebar, wrapper, widgets, user columns, login links and other tweaks.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.2(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WP Discourse
Up in the last 7 days:15#6,704by scossar2 months ago
This plugin allows you to use Discourse as a community engine for your WordPress website. The plugin is not a substitute for Disqus type commenting sy …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(8)
- Downloads
- 45/day

Toolbox for Asgaros Forum
Down in the last 7 days:1#6,943by Dominik Rauch2 years ago
This toolbox allows you to extend the functionality of Asgaros Forum.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(77)
- Downloads
- 11/day

ForumWP
Down in the last 7 days:25#7,513by Ultimate Member7 months ago
Add a forum to your website with ForumWP.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 3.6(12)
- Downloads
- 18/day

Forumax
Down in the last 7 days:56#8,860by Spider Themes5 days ago
Build powerful communities with Forumax. A fully standalone, feature-rich forum plugin with voting, private replies, and Elementor integration.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(18)
- Downloads
- 45/day

Ultimate Member
Down in the last 7 days:89#9,224by Mykyta Synelnikov1 year ago
Integrate Ultimate Member with the forum plugin ForumWP.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 1.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

bbPress Voting
Up in the last 7 days:3#9,468by natekinkead2 months ago
Let visitors vote up and down on bbPress topics and replies just like Reddit or Stack Overflow!
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.7(10)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Product Questions & Answers for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:3#9,740by expresstechsoftware1 year ago
Allows the customers to ask questions about products and admin to answer/moderate them.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.8(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Turnkey bbPress by WeaverTheme
Down in the last 7 days:56#10,163by wpweaver3 months ago
At last! Turnkey bbPress. Beautiful bbPress styles. Essential layout and user/admin usability options. No CSS or PHP coding required.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 12/day
bbP topic count
Down in the last 7 days:56#10,416by Robin W2 months ago
For bbPress - adds any combination of topics, replies and totals under the authors avatar in topics and replies
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(15)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Simple:Press Forum
Up in the last 7 days:22#10,426by simplepress1 month ago
The most versatile and feature-rich forum plugin for WordPress. Create unlimited forums with awesome features directly in your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.2(24)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Post Comments as bbPress Topics
Down in the last 7 days:46#11,155by Robin W16 days ago
Replace the comments on your WordPress blog posts with topics from an integrated bbPress install
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.3(18)
- Downloads
- 22/day
topicPolls Pro for bbPress
Down in the last 7 days:131#11,635by Milan Petrovic16 days ago
Implement a polls system for topics in bbPress powered forums, with settings to control voting, poll closing, display of results and more.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.8(5)
- Downloads
- 22/day
bbp user ranking
Down in the last 7 days:55#12,491by Robin W2 months ago
For bbPress - Lets you add ranking and badges to topics, replies, and profiles
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
bbp last post
Down in the last 7 days:112#12,986by Robin W2 months ago
For bbPress - changes the freshness displays to date
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Forum Server
#14,754by lucidcrew11 years ago
This Wordpress plugin is a complete forum system for your wordpress blog.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.3(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day
bbp profile information
Down in the last 7 days:53#15,027by Robin W2 months ago
For bbPress - adds fields to the bbp user profile and displays any combination of these under the authors avatar in topics and replies
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Vanilla Forums
Up in the last 7 days:25#15,642by VanillaForums6 years ago
Not a Vanilla Forum owner? Create one here
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 2.8(17)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-United
Up in the last 7 days:27#16,445by jhong12 years ago
Bridge phpBB and WordPress!
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.3(52)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Bit Connect
Up in the last 7 days:5,239#17,033by Bit Apps10 days ago
Build a community, forum, feedback portal and public roadmap with posts, profiles, votes, discussions, notifications and moderation.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 47/day
bbPress auto subscribe for new topics and replies
Down in the last 7 days:68#17,975by quan_flo10 years ago
Automatically checks the subscription checkbox for new bbpress topics or bbpress replies and saves the last state via ajax for each user and for new t …
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 3.9(8)
- Downloads
- 3/day

Website Toolbox Forum
Down in the last 7 days:136#18,306by Website Toolbox LLC26 days ago
Effortlessly build a beautiful discussion forum with instant setup, seamless embedding, and exceptional support.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.6(13)
- Downloads
- 11/day
bbPress Integration
Down in the last 7 days:45#18,479by Michael Adams (mdawaffe)17 years ago
Provides single sign on login with a bbPress installation.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
bbp buddypress profile information
Up in the last 7 days:104#18,808by Robin W2 months ago
For buddypress/bbPress - Displays any combination of up to 4 buddypress field under the authors avatar in topics and replies
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Forum Permissions bbPress
Up in the last 7 days:133#18,941by Verdant Studio7 months ago
Restrict the forum permissions per user role.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
bbPress Notifications
Down in the last 7 days:33#19,090by dFactory13 years ago
bbPress Notifications allows you to automatically send email notifications to specific users when new topics or replies are posted.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
bbPress Unread Posts v2
Down in the last 7 days:147#20,933by Coronoro11 years ago
Simple Plugin which shows whether a registered user has read a Post or not.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.6(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Muut
#21,055by Paul11 years ago
Muut represents a complete re-imagination of what internet discussion forums and commenting should be. It’s a modern, fast, highly scalable discussion …
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.9(19)
- Downloads
- 0/day
phpbb_recent_topics
Up in the last 7 days:33#21,381by linickx15 years ago
This plugin grabs your recent phpBB forum topics for you to display in wordpress.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

bbPress Reports
#22,741by Tareq Hasan6 years ago
A reporting tool for bbPress
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

ZenCommunity
Up in the last 7 days:1,486#23,335by Kodezen LLC13 days ago
Build a modern online community in WordPress: spaces, social feeds, discussion forum, events, polls, member profiles, chat and support tickets.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 14/day

Spam Check for Asgaros
Up in the last 7 days:41#24,945by guidve1 year ago
A simple and configurable spam filter for the Asgaros Forum plugin. Automatically detects blacklisted terms in posts and optionally bans spammers.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
phpBB Topics Portal
Up in the last 7 days:462#27,366by macmiller14 years ago
A widget that accesses your phpBB forum and displays recent posts on your Wordpress page.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-Phpbb Last Topics
Up in the last 7 days:158#31,026by peppolone19 years ago
Plugin used to display the most recent topics of your phpBB forum(it works with phpbb 2.* and also phpbb 3.*)
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

PrimeTime WordPress + Discourse SSO
Up in the last 7 days:35#31,617by etcio11 years ago
This plugin provides single sign-on capabilities for Discourse using WordPress user authentication.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple Forum Widgets
#34,038by Mian Saleem10 years ago
Adds two new widgets (Forum Threads and Forum Categories) to display your Simple Forum Threads/Categories on your site
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Private forums visibility
Down in the last 7 days:187#34,712by Robin W4 years ago
For bbPress - displays private forums titles and optional descriptions to non-logged in users, and optionally hides the prefix 'private'
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
bbPress New Topic Notifications to Inbox
#39,189by codezag12 years ago
Send notification to the admin email when a new topic posted.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

TK bbPress Stats
#39,201by TKServer9 months ago
Modern, secure bbPress statistics widget with PHP 8.5 support. Display forum stats with caching and security enhancements.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
vBPress
Up in the last 7 days:7,556#39,223by Aaron Forgue15 years ago
vBPress seamlessly integrates WordPress with vBulletin
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple BuddyPress Notifications
Down in the last 7 days:1,200#40,957by imemine1 month ago
Simple BuddyPress Notifications allows sites using BuddyPress to have a notification icon on the site. It also plays a "ting" sound when a n …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Support Forum for Envato
Down in the last 7 days:416#41,668by octagonwebstudio7 years ago
Support Forum for Envato is allows you to set different user permissions for certain threads according to user envato purchase codes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Display phpBB Forums
#42,351by anybuy12 years ago
Display phpBB Forums is a WordPress plugin that allows you to show nodes (Category, Forum, LinkForum) from your separate phpBB forum as primary menu i …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day