JTZL’s Bulletin for bbPress

Bulletin makes a bbPress forum genuinely pleasant to read on a phone.

On the reading screens — the forums index, a single forum’s threads, a thread itself, and search — Bulletin renders its own minimal document instead of your theme’s, in a comfortable serif reading face with quiet chrome. Every other bbPress screen a reader can reach — member profiles, the topic archive, tag archives, registered views — keeps bbPress’s own markup, but inside Bulletin’s chrome, so the forum reads as one place. Nothing outside bbPress is touched: the rest of your site renders exactly as it does now.

Taking part happens in the same place. Replying, starting a thread and editing your own post are Bulletin screens too, so a member never lands on a bare theme form halfway through answering someone. And every list of forums or threads marks what is new since that member last looked.

It is a companion plugin. It never modifies bbPress, and it can be deactivated at any time with no trace.

What it does

• Full mobile takeover of the forums index, single forum, reading view and search
• Every other bbPress screen wrapped in the same chrome rather than dropped on your theme
• Continuous, decluttered reading — the thread is the content, not a card stack
• Threaded replies placed under the reply they answer, when bbPress threading is on
• Inline “load more replies” instead of jarring pagination
• Reply, start a thread, and edit your own post without leaving Bulletin
• Unread marks on the forum and thread lists, per member, cleared by opening the thread
• Thread-to-thread previous/next, scoped to the current forum, with boundary stops
• Deep links to any specific reply keep working, including past the first page
• Moderation as a mode, off by default — the controls appear only when asked for
• Native bbPress subscribe is retained, on forums and on threads