I just recently installed the BBpress on my website. Take a look at it here: http://earthtoblog.com/forums/ Here is what I did: I downloaded bbPress, extracted the file to my FTP (folder called /forums) Created a new mySQL database for the forums (Though you can use your WP db and take all the users from there automatically) I downloaded and installed a theme from here (I am using misty morning) I installed the following plugins: [*]Allow Images - Lets users add images in their posts[*]Avatar Upload - Lets your users upload their own avatars[*]BBCode light - allows people to mark up posts with BBCode[*]BBcode buttons - lets you add bbcode through a menu above your posts[*]BBpress signatures - lets your users add signatures to their posts Next I installed BBpress latest discussion as a Wordpress plugin for my blog. I added <?php wp_bb_get_discuss_sidebar(); ?> Code (markup): to my sidebar and it worked instantly. The next thing I did to the forums was some minor modifications to display tags without using the <li> tag on posts, rather simply cluster them. I edited on of the tag (.php) files I also went and switched the layout on the main forum page to display the categories first and then the latest messages second, this is done so that users could go through the forums rather then see what people are posting. I simply slapped on an image at the top which I made in 5 minutes and then did a few graphical CSS changes. Took me about an hour and a half to set everything up to the way I wanted it now. Next up is just formatting my blog to match the style of the forum (or vice versa) That shouldn't be to difficult if I simply adjust the correct CSS elements. Another nice thing, the template I downloaded contained a menu bar with empty links, so I replaced them with a link to my blog and the categories on the forum. If you have any issues, feel free to ask me.