🆚 bbPress vs. vBulletin

bbPress is a free plugin that adds forum functionality to WordPress websites.

It offers simple forum setup, integration with WordPress user accounts, support for subscriptions, tags, search, and shortcodes, and is extensible through additional plugins.

vBulletin is a commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database.

It includes built-in support for forums, groups, polls, and blogs, offers a customizable template-based interface, an AJAX-powered chat, an admin control panel with a granular user-group permissions system, and SEO optimization tools.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Internet Forum Software category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Internet Forum Software category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Internet Forum Software category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Internet Forum Software category.

• 🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Internet Forum Software category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the Internet Forum Software category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Internet Forum Software category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Italy in the Internet Forum Software category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• bbPress technology profile
• WordPress Foundation company profile

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