Wherer do I start with the issue of bbPress and the features that it needs to be at some respectable level to other forum software. I understand that the software is meant to be a simple design but not a skeleton. The layout of bbPress is terible compared to a SMF, vbulletin "Insert any forum software made in the past five years" and it requires major coding changes and extra plugins to get it up to scratch up a forum software level for 2014. SMF suffers from this issue too being too basic.

I love the idea of bbPress being attached to Wordpress but I'm expecting more than just Query and caching performance improvements. It needs a facelift badly as many of my members at my web site and many people deem it as a ugly looking software and one that requires too much coding to get to a level and even that makes like plastic surgery gone wrong. The reason why I'm pretty strong in my words is that bbPress has been like this for many many years. Some even believe the software is dead.... and I don't blame them. It looks like that at times.