Today,
We present you a hand-picked collection of best forum WordPress themes to create a community forum, Q & A, and bbPress forum for support knowledge base site using WordPress.

bbPress is a plugin which allows you to run a forum using WordPress or BuddyPress which tightly integrates with the membership system, it is a great way to add a forum section to your existing site.

Here are the 12+ Best WordPress bbPress Forum & Community Themes 2016 (Free and Premium) For Business. This list includes a few free themes, some premium themes, and a few others that offer free & paid versions.

There are several other forum solutions like Boss and MesoColumn but bbPress still keeps up with them in style as it is the choice for WordPress.

OneSocial

OneSocial is a great theme for all those of you who’re looking to create community sites. It’s fully responsive and looks great across devices of all screen sizes. Every page of the OneSocial theme keeps the spotlight on the page’s content — be it the theme’s blog layout or the pages it uses to showcase members and groups. Everything is kept simple and appealing.

Key Features:

• Translation-Ready
• WooCommerce Support
• Easily Customizable
• A Stunning Homepage Slider
• Live Notifications
• And much more...

 

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Boss

Boss theme comes fully integrated with some of the most popular BuddyPress plugins, which means you will have no styling work to do. This will help you save time and money. Although most plugins will work with Boss, we have given special attention to the below plugins and have styled them to perfection.

Key Features:

• Flexible Layout
• Customize your social network without touching code
• Endless Possibilities
• Extend your customization abilities with a Powerful Admin Panel
• Multilingual and RTL Support
• Social Login Integration
• WooCommerce Support
• Easily replicate our demo with the One Click Installer
• And much more...

 

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ENGAGE

Engage is a theme for community and forums. It supports bbPress and BuddyPress. It is a fantastic theme to develop a community site with lots of great features like threaded comments, dropdown menus, custom page templates, jQuery powered contact form.

Key Features:

• Beautifully Designed
• Compatible with the Latest Version of WordPress
• Full intergration with bbPress BuddyPress
• Full intergration with bbPress
• Useful Shortcodes
• Dropdown Menus
• Threaded Comments
• jQuery Contact Form
• And much more...

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MesoColumn – Free

Mesocolumn is a Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 WordPress Theme that support BuddyPress, BBPress, WooCommerce and Jigoshop and comes with Unlimited Color Choice on Menu for category and pages, Background, Layout, Footer, Sidebar and Design packed 600+ Google Webfonts Selection.
Key Features:

• BuddyPress, BBPress, Jigoshop and WooCommerce Ready
• Page Templates for blog with excerpt, blog with full content, full width, sitemap and links
• Logo and Favourite icon uploads in theme options
• 600+ Google Web Fonts with Font Previews to choose from
• Color Options for each Category
• And much more...

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WowMag – Blog & Forum

With a simplistic look and emphasis on readability, WowMag is a popular WordPress forum theme for both blogs and forums. Being developed on Bootstrap3, this is a fully responsive theme with modern layout styles. The advanced built-in pagebuilder offers you the freedom to style your forum according to your necessity.

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Mindig

Mindig is one of the fastest multipurpose WordPress themes. It is a mobile friendly theme with more than 14 ready-made demo designs. It offers a Visual Composure plugin to make page building super easy. Unlimited layouts for header and more than 300 shortcodes allow users to create unique styles.

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Gauge

Gauge offers a superb Review System and a Front-End Posting feature that make it one of the best suited bbPress forum themes. The built-in Layout Builder, clean and SEO friendly codes and ready-to-use templates are some of the most interesting features of this theme. It comes with a child as well.

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Gittys

If you are looking for a perfectly SEO optimized and responsive bbPress theme, Gittys is certainly one of the best options available. It has a Theme Customizer feature that enables users to stylize their sites with simple clicks. It provides Gallery and Portfolio options to create exclusive pages for Gallery and Portfolio. 30+ shortcodes offer additional functionality.

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Connect Theme

Connect is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme for those that want to build a community around their news site. Since BuddyPress has progressed so much in the last year, we figured a theme with social networking capabilities was overdue. Besides, our community has been asking for such a theme for quite some time. Now you have it with many cool features.

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Salutation: WordPress + BuddyPress Theme

Salutation comes with a free Revolution slider. With the built-in Contact Form Builder option, you can add custom fields, custom validation, CAPTCHA and a lot more. Layout manager with drag and drop functionality, sidebar generator and responsive design make it a great theme for bbPress.

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Huddle – WordPress Community Theme

Huddle is a WordPress theme for bbPress and BuddyPress. This is a robust theme with eye-catching design and clean codes. It offers six custom page templates and nine custom widgets for different purpose.

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OneCommunity

OneCommunity is the perfect theme for community and forums. Its built-in plugin makes registering new users and interacting with members very easy. It has nine color variations, a number of inner pages, four frontpage layouts and drop down menu with three levels. It is responsive and includes 15 PSD files.

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