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bbPress — WordPress Forum, Fully Yours

Already have a WordPress site? Turn it into your community.

If you run a WordPress site and a Facebook group separately, you're doing twice the work for half the result. bbPress turns your existing WordPress site into a full community forum — no extra platform, no separate login, no Zuckerberg. Free for 30 days, then just £0.99/month.

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bbPress Hosting Plan
£0/first 30 days
then £0.99/month
One-click WordPress + bbPress install
2GB NVMe SSD storage
Unlimited bandwidth
1 email account included
Free SSL certificate (Let's Encrypt)
Daily automated backups
Custom domain support
Zero ads — guaranteed
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60s
Average setup time
2GB
NVMe SSD storage
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Bandwidth included
£0.99
Per month after trial

The WordPress site owner's problem

Your website and your Facebook group should be one thing.

You've built a WordPress site for your content and a Facebook group for your community. Two separate platforms, two logins, two audiences that never quite meet. bbPress closes that gap — adding a fully-integrated forum directly to your WordPress site, bringing your community home where it belongs.

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Your WordPress Site
Your content, your brand, your domain — already set up and running
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bbPress Plugin
Installed in one click — adds a fully-featured forum directly inside WordPress
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Your Complete Community Hub
Content and conversation in one place — your domain, your rules, your data
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Moving your Facebook group somewhere you own?

Our full migration guide covers everything — from picking the right forum software to setting up boards and inviting your members across without losing momentum.

Read the Migration Guide →

Two platforms vs one

Stop sending your audience to Facebook. Keep them on your site.

Every time you tell your website visitors to "join the Facebook group," you're sending hard-won traffic to a platform that will show them ads, distract them and give you nothing back. With bbPress, your community lives on your site — driving engagement, building authority and belonging entirely to you.

Facebook Group (separate platform)
📤You send your website visitors to Facebook — boosting Meta's traffic while giving nothing back to your own domain's authority or retention
📢Facebook shows ads to your community members — inside a group you built, for revenue that goes entirely to Meta
📉The algorithm suppresses your posts — active group members still miss discussions because Facebook gates organic reach
🔓Two separate logins, two platforms to manage — your content is on your site, your community is on Facebook, and neither reinforces the other
🚫Zero ownership — Facebook can remove your group, change its features or close the platform. Your community investment is entirely at their mercy
bbPress on Your WordPress Site
🏡Your community lives on your domain — every discussion page builds your site's authority, improves SEO and keeps your audience engaged on your platform
🚫Zero ads — ever. Your members see only your content. The experience is clean, distraction-free and entirely focused on your community
📬No algorithm — every thread is visible to every member who visits. Discussion happens in the open, not filtered by engagement scoring
🔗One platform, one login — your WordPress users can participate in the forum without a separate account. Content and community, unified
🔐Total ownership — your forum is part of your WordPress site, hosted by you, backed up daily. Nobody can take it away or change the rules on you

About bbPress

The forum plugin built for WordPress by the WordPress team.

bbPress was created by Automattic — the same team behind WordPress.com. That heritage means it integrates with WordPress more deeply and reliably than any third-party plugin could. If you have a WordPress site, bbPress is the forum software built specifically for you.

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Native WordPress Integration
bbPress is a WordPress plugin, not a bolt-on. It uses WordPress users, themes, menus and permissions natively. Your forum inherits your site's design, your members use their existing WordPress accounts and everything works together seamlessly from day one.
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Matches Your Existing Theme
bbPress renders forum pages using your existing WordPress theme — your forum looks like part of your website rather than a separate tool grafted on. No extra design work, no visual inconsistency, no jarring transition for your visitors.
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Shared User Accounts
Your existing WordPress users can participate in the forum immediately without re-registering. Commenters, subscribers and members already on your site become forum participants automatically — significantly lowering the barrier to community engagement.
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Works with BuddyPress
Combine bbPress with the BuddyPress plugin and your WordPress site becomes a full social network — member profiles, activity streams, groups, private messaging and forums all under one roof, all on your domain.
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Granular Permissions
bbPress uses WordPress's role system — Keymaster, Moderator, Participant, Spectator and Blocked roles give you fine-grained control over who can post, moderate and administer. Built on a permissions model your WordPress knowledge already covers.
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SEO That Boosts Your Whole Site
Every forum thread lives at a URL on your domain. As your community grows and discussions accumulate, so does your site's search presence. Community-generated content becomes an SEO asset that benefits your entire website — not a Facebook Group nobody can Google.

Why Nexforum

WordPress hosting built for communities that grow.

WordPress with bbPress is database-intensive — your forum adds significant query load on top of your existing site. Nexforum's NVMe infrastructure and unlimited bandwidth ensure your combined WordPress and bbPress setup stays fast however active your community becomes.

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NVMe SSD — WordPress Fast
WordPress is already database-heavy. bbPress adds forum queries on top. NVMe solid-state storage handles all of it efficiently — your pages load quickly for visitors and members alike, even as your content and community grow simultaneously.
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Unlimited Bandwidth
A growing community means growing traffic. Nexforum imposes no bandwidth limits — your WordPress site with bbPress forum keeps loading quickly for everyone, whether you have 10 members online or 1,000.
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Free SSL, Auto-Renewed
Every Nexforum account includes Let's Encrypt SSL, renewed automatically. Your WordPress site and bbPress forum serve over HTTPS from day one — trusted by browsers, trusted by Google, no configuration required.
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Daily Automated Backups
Your entire WordPress installation — theme, plugins, content, forum threads and members — is backed up daily. If a plugin update causes issues, your site can be restored quickly and completely without data loss.
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Your Own Domain
Run everything on your own domain — your WordPress site, your bbPress forum, all under one address that belongs to you. Your community builds your domain's authority rather than Facebook's.
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DDoS Protection
Network-level DDoS mitigation keeps your site accessible even under pressure. Your content and community stay online and fast regardless of what's happening at the infrastructure level.

Getting started

From Facebook group to integrated WordPress community in three steps.

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Start Your Free Trial

Sign up at Nexforum — no credit card required. Your 30-day free trial begins immediately. Install WordPress via Softaculous in one click — the full CMS is ready in under a minute, no server configuration needed.

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Install bbPress in One Click

From your WordPress admin panel, go to Plugins → Add New, search for bbPress and click Install. Activate it and your forum is live immediately — integrated with your WordPress theme, users and menus from the first moment.

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Move Your Community Over

Create your forum sections to mirror your Facebook group's topics, then post your new forum link in the group. Your existing WordPress users can join immediately without re-registering — many communities migrate within days.

From the community

WordPress site owners who moved their community off Facebook.

★★★★★

"I had a WordPress food blog and a Facebook group with 2,000 members. Two separate things that never quite connected. bbPress on Nexforum merged them — the forum lives on my own domain, my blog readers become community members and I don't have to manage two platforms any more."

Helena B.
Food blogger, 2,000-member community
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"Every time I posted in our Facebook group I was sending my audience to a platform that showed them ads for my competitors. Moving the community to bbPress on our WordPress site kept everything in house. Our forum threads now rank in Google — the Facebook group never did."

Stuart K.
Small business owner, trade community
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"I was nervous about running WordPress hosting but Nexforum made it completely painless. Softaculous installed WordPress, I added bbPress, pointed my domain and I was done. The 30-day free trial meant I had nothing to lose. My members didn't miss Facebook for a single day."

Priya M.
Yoga instructor, wellness community

Frequently asked questions

bbPress hosting — your questions answered.

Do I need an existing WordPress site to use bbPress?
No — you can install WordPress fresh via Softaculous and add bbPress to it straight away. You don't need any existing content or a pre-built site. Many people set up WordPress specifically to host a bbPress community forum. However, if you already have a WordPress site, bbPress integrates with it seamlessly — which is where it really shines.
Will bbPress look like part of my existing WordPress theme?
Yes. bbPress renders forum pages using your active WordPress theme — which means your forum matches your website's design automatically without any extra work. Most well-coded WordPress themes are fully compatible with bbPress out of the box, and the forum pages feel like a natural extension of your existing site.
Can my existing WordPress users participate in the forum?
Yes — this is one of bbPress's biggest advantages. Any registered WordPress user on your site can participate in the forum immediately without creating a separate account. If you already have subscribers, commenters or members on your WordPress site, they're already your forum members the moment bbPress is activated.
How does bbPress compare to a standalone forum like phpBB?
bbPress is the right choice if you already run or plan to run a WordPress site and want the forum to be part of it — sharing the same domain, design, users and admin panel. phpBB and similar standalone forums are better if you want a dedicated community platform independent of any CMS, or if you need a deeper feature set and larger plugin ecosystem than bbPress provides.
Will my bbPress forum threads show up in Google?
Yes — every forum thread lives at a URL on your WordPress domain and is fully indexable by Google. This is a major SEO benefit: community-generated discussions become content that ranks in search results, building your domain's authority over time. A Facebook Group can't do any of this — its content is essentially invisible to search engines.
What happens after my 30-day free trial ends?
Your WordPress site and bbPress forum continue running without interruption at £0.99/month, billed via Stripe. You'll receive a reminder before the trial ends. If you decide not to continue for any reason, cancel at any time — no charges, no lock-in, no questions asked.

Explore other forum software

Not on WordPress? We have you covered.

Every forum platform on Nexforum installs in one click via Softaculous. Your 30-day free trial covers all of them — try as many as you like.

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phpBB
World's most popular standalone forum
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MyBB
Fast, flexible and extensible
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Vanilla Forums
Modern feel, great for Facebook migrants
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SMF
Simple Machines Forum — easy to admin

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