good theme recommedations

  • A month ago I created my first WordPress site with one third-party plugin and the forum plug-in bbPress.

    Getting a theme to work well with both plugins took quite a bit of time as I had to write a small bit of custom css and PHP. My knowledge of css and PHP is low. Actually it took a few weeks to get everything to look nice and work well together, although the work was done on a very part-time basis.

    I now want to install BuddyPress and bbPress together on another WordPress site as community software for a certain niche.

    Is there a reasonably low-priced (or free) theme I can purchase for BuddyPress (and that works with bbPress installed on the same site) that looks nice?

    Please give me some recommendations. I don’t want to spend three weeks making css tweaks to get a decent look community website.

    As regards reviewing BuddyPress (together with bbPress), I installed both a week ago. It is good BuddyPress allows you precisely to turn what functionality what want on and turn everything else off. For my case I just wanted the ability to allow BuddyPress groups to have their own associated bbPress forum. It worked, although the default themes are rather plain – hence my desire for a good theme recommendation. BuddyPress and bbPress work well together. My only issue is one common to all WordPress users. The more plugins you add to a WordPress site, the greater the chances of some little issues occurring, although this is not the fault of BuddyPress or bbPress.

    When I was looking for what forum plug-in to use, I installed three different ones. bbPress was the most plain looking one by default. However bbPress was the only one that played nicely with all the other plug-ins. So I stuck with bbPress. After a little work, I managed to get bbPress looking good.

    • This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Marisa.
    • This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Marisa.
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