This chapter covered a few of the things that you can do with bbPress. We will revisit bbPress in later chapters as we continue to add even more features to the blog network. For now, you should have a working forum that relies on your WordPress MU user information, and the forum and the blog network should blend seamlessly with each other.
This chapter barely scratched the surface of what BuddyPress can do. We learned how to install the software and how to share cookies with WordPress MU so that our users need to log in only once to access the whole site. We also learned how to style BuddyPress so that it matches the rest of the blog and how to manage registrations so that spam bots cannot register on the site.
We learned about moderation and setting user roles so that we can assign moderators to various parts of the forum.
We also discussed some useful plugins that extend the capabilities of bbPress to allow for polls, user-rating of posts, and improved moderation features. We also...