After a couple of hours I developed a strong dislike for this program. Here are some reasons:
– When I uninstalled bbPress and reinstalled it, all of the old experimental junk forums and topics came back. And the settings I had changed earlier never reverted to defaults. So it’s not cleaning after itself during uninstall.
– It lacks a traditional forum layout with proper categories and sub-forums (like vBulletin and phpBB). A support discussion said this was coming. That support discussion was SIX years ago…
– By default there are no visible Register or Login tools. You can add a shortcode to the forum index page, but there doesn’t seem to be any way for visitors to register or login from any Forum or Topic page.
– There are no customization options without manually writing CSS code. You can’t change the layout, colors, spacing, text sizes or fonts… Fortunately, bbPress did a good job of using the theme colors and general settings, the one nice thing I can say about it.