by natekinkead 4.7 (10 reviews)

bbPress Voting

Name: bbPress Voting
Rating: 4.7 (10 reviews)
Author: natekinkead

Let visitors vote up and down on bbPress topics and replies just like Reddit or Stack Overflow!

bbPress Voting ranks #9,477 among WordPress.org plugins with 400+ active installations, is #335 of 2,958 in the Discussion & Community category, a 4.7/5 rating from 10 reviews, and was last updated Aug 13, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7 (Current: 7.1.4)

v2.1.13.10 Current Version v2.1.13.10

Updated 2 months ago Last Update on 13 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 2 days ago Last Refreshed on

#335 of 2,958 in Discussion & Community Top 25% by installs Downloads -10.4% this week

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Review 4.7 out of 5

4.7 (10 reviews)

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

1 known vulnerability on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 3 months ago

Jan 27, 2023

bbPress Voting [bbp-voting] < 2.1.11.1

CVE-2023-24403 · Fixed in v2.1.11.1

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.1.13.10
Last Updated: Aug 13, 2026
Requires WP: 4.0.0+
Tested Up To: 7
PHP Version: 5.6 or higher
Author: natekinkead

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Reviews: 10
Support Threads: 0
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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for bbPress forum site owners who want community-driven quality signals on discussions. It adds Reddit or Stack Overflow style up and down voting on topics and replies, using AJAX so votes save without a page refresh.

Vote up or down on topics/replies
Customizable up/down labels
Disable voting globally
Disable voting on specific forums
View-only score on closed topics
Sort by voting scores
Admin bypass
GamiPress integration

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about bbPress Voting

No, and it's the strangest thing. I was wanting a plugin to do this, and after much searching, I came to the conclusion that it didn't exist, so I developed one myself... and my, how this has grown into quite a robust plugin!

In the WordPress admin area, go to Settings > bbPress Voting

This hook fires after a new vote has been saved. add_action( 'bbp_voting_voted', 'my_function_on_bbp_vote', 10, 4 ); function my_function_on_bbp_vote( $post_id, $direction, $score, $identifier ) { // Do something // $post_id will be the ID of the topic or reply that was voted on // $direction will be 1 for upvote, -1 for downvote, or 0 for removed vote // $score will be the new total score // $identifier will be either a numeric user ID or an IP address of a non-logged-in visitor }

Edit the forum, and you will see a metabox on the sidebar that will let you enable or disable voting and/or sorting just on that forum. You can also write custom code to do it. This function in your child theme's functions.php file will let you choose which forum IDs are allowed to have voting... add_filter( 'bbp_voting_allowed_on_forum', 'allowed_voting_forums', 10, 2 ); function allowed_voting_forums( $allowed, $forum_id ) { if( in_array( $forum_id, array(123, 124, 125) ) ) { $allowed = true; } else { $allowed = false; } return $allowed; }

By default nobody can vote repeatedly on the same topic or reply, but you can enable this only for administrators by enabling the "Admin Bypass" settings.

In the bbPress Voting settings, enabled BuddyBoss Theme Compatibility. Then, in order to get the voting buttons to show up on a forums' topic list page, you need to apply one theme override to the BuddyBoss theme since they removed all the standard bbPress hooks in the place where that would go. Copy the file from /wp-content/themes/buddyboss/bbpress/loop-topic-list.php and paste it in /wp-content/themes/buddyboss-child/bbpress/loop-topic-list.php Edit the pasted file in the child theme and add <?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_title' ); ?> in between <div class="flex flex-1"> and <div class="item-avatar bb-item-avatar-wrap">. <div class="flex flex-1">  <?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_title' ); ?>  <div class="item-avatar bb-item-avatar-wrap">