bbPress
WordPress Foundation, San Francisco, California, United StatesbbPress 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.
According to our data, bbPress is the most popular Internet forum software on the web.
It has 28.4% of the Internet forum software market share and is detected on 0.1% of all websites.
- 🏠 Website
- 🔌 Add-Ons
- 👨👩👦👦 Community
💸 Pricing
bbPress is available for free.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Internet Forum Software
- Rank: 1
- Market share: 28.4%
- WordPress Plugins
- Rank: 69
- Market share: 0.4%
🏆 bbPress Awards
- 🥇 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Internet Forum Software category.
⚡ Sites Powered by bbPress
We have data on 4,418 websites that use the bbPress Internet forum software. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using bbPress is theyeshivaworld.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #12,204 | United States | American English | |
| 2 | #19,359 | United Kingdom | British English | |
| 3 | #20,641 | South Africa | English | |
| 4 | #21,772 | Australia | Australian English | |
| 5 | #27,541 | United Kingdom | British English | |
| 6 | #28,150 | Indonesia | Indonesian | |
| 7 | #41,828 | Singapore | American English | |
| 8 | #41,852 | Spanish | ||
| 9 | #42,215 | France | French | |
| 10 | #48,782 | Israel | Hebrew | |
| 11 | #50,277 | United States | American English | |
| 12 | #52,318 | American English | ||
| 13 | #53,606 | United Kingdom | American English | |
| 14 | #58,866 | France | French | |
| 15 | #61,284 | Arabic | ||
| 16 | #62,152 | American English | ||
| 17 | #62,674 | American English | ||
| 18 | #63,017 | United Kingdom | British English | |
| 19 | #63,632 | United States | American English | |
| 20 | #63,952 | United Kingdom | British English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use bbPress:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using bbPress are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- United States 22.6%
- United Kingdom 7.8%
- Japan 5.7%
- Germany 5.5%
- Spain 4.7%
- France 4.7%
- Italy 4.2%
- Canada 3.7%
- Netherlands 3.1%
- Other 38%
Most bbPress users speak English, Spanish, or Japanese.
- English 55.7%
- Spanish 6.4%
- Japanese 4.8%
- German 4.5%
- French 4.5%
- Italian 3.3%
- Russian 3.2%
- Portuguese 1.9%
- Dutch 1.6%
- Other 14.1%
The bbPress Internet forum software is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.
- .com 40%
- .org 14.5%
- .net 3.9%
- .de 3%
- .it 2.4%
- .ru 2.1%
- .co.uk 1.6%
- .ca 1.4%
- .fr 1.3%
- Other 29.8%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing bbPress include business, blogs and wiki, and education and reference.
- Business 12.6%
- Blogs/Wiki 12.5%
- Education/Reference 10.1%
- Marketing/Merchandising 9.1%
- Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO 6.9%
- Internet Services 5%
- Sports 4.9%
- Health 4.6%
- Entertainment 3.5%
- Other 30.8%
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What is the company behind bbPress?
bbPress is owned by the WordPress Foundation, headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Can I use bbPress for free?
Yes, it is a free Internet forum software.
Which country uses bbPress the most?
The majority of bbPress users are from the United States.
Who uses bbPress?
According to our data, bbPress is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as theyeshivaworld.com,
sqlservercentral.com, and
g20.org.
Is bbPress used on government websites?
Overall, we found bbPress on 2 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use bbPress?
Yes. The most prominent of these is umri.ac.id. Overall, we know of 4 academic websites in the United States that use bbPress.
How does bbPress stack up against its competitors?
bbPress is the most popular Internet forum software on the market, outranking all others.
What are the alternatives to bbPress?
Alternatives and possible competitors to bbPress may include XenForo, phpBB, and Invision Community.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.