How Some Things Work At bbPress Forums

Sticky Posts

There is no option to make a post sticky when you add it. However, once you have added a topic, click to view it. Then browse right down. You will see a link ‘Stick Topic (to front)’

If your click STICK TOPIC, this topic will become a sticky in its respective forum. However, if you click TO FRONT, it will stick to the front page Latest Discussions list. One downside of this being, the topic is no longer shown in its respective forum. It is still counted there but no longer viewable from within the forum.

What purpose can this serve? Well for one you can use this to add General Forum Rules that you might not want appearing in any of the forums but visible on the front page. Any announcements can also be added here.

Favorites

How this works is you can add a post to your favorites. There is the option of subscribing to your favorites RSS feed so you can receive the latest posting in your favorite topics.

You can also add the option to subscribe via email by adding a plugin called Post Notification.

More on this and other plugins.

Forgot Password

There is no forgot password link – at least none that I could find.

This is how it works:

If you try to login with a username that does not exist, you get a message saying that this username is not registered, would you like to register it?

If you try to login with a username that exists but with the wrong password, then you will see a button on the login page. Clicking this button will send you an email via which you can reset your password.

Works nicely but you cannot directly go around finding your lost password. Your member might get lost trying to find the option unless they try logging in first.

Definitely makes for a good sticky note on the front page – How to Retrieve Your Lost Password.