Disputo - WordPress bbPress Forum Theme

Disputo is a WordPress theme which is made for bbPress forum plugin. All bbPress pages are designed with care but the theme doesn’t just supports bbPress. It will take your bbPress forum to the next level !

We also added some extra power to the theme! WooCommerce support, Private Messaging, Ads Manager, Like & Dislike Rating System, Front-end Post Submission, Custom bbPress widgets, FAQ System, Social Media Sharing Buttons, Custom Login/Register Pages, MailChimp integration, Facebook Comments and much more…

Key Features

• Fully responsive, clean and modern design
• Live Customizer: Rich set of live customization options allow you to customize your theme with ease.
• You can create unique page layouts with Drag&Drop SiteOrigin Page Builder.
• 12 awesome custom page builder widget.
• Made with Bootstrap 4.
• User Profiles: Disputo, allows your users to create beautiful and informative user profiles. Custom profile photos, cover images, social media icons, age, sex, location information and much more…
• User Directories: You can create user directories with easy to use flexible “users” widget.
• Verified Users: This feature allows you to manually verify users from the profile edit screen. Verified members have a twitter-like “verified” badge displayed on the front-end. You can create forums and topics for only verified users (Other users can view the topics but can not post reply).
• Follow User: Users can follow each other and view latest posts from their friends on a facebook-like wall.
• User Blogs: Give your members the ability to create blog posts and send them to review from front-end. Combine everyone’s posts into the blog, and easily navigate to any member’s profile to read just their posts. They can add categories, tags, and a featured image.
• Private messaging: Private messaging system allows your site members to send private messages to each other.
• Solved Topic & Best Answer: You can mark a topic as solved and you can select the best answer. This is a great feature specifically for support forums.
• Ads Manager: There are many fields in the theme for your ads. You can organize your ads easily with the built in ads management system.
• Site wide (Posts,Comments and Forum Replies) Like & Dislike rating system.
• You Tube TV: You Tube TV widget can show the latest videos from any selected You Tube channel.
• Front-end custom login & registration page
• Compatible with WordPress Social Login. The plugin allows your website readers and customers to register on using their existing social accounts IDs, eliminating the need to fill out registration forms and remember usernames and passwords.
• Seamless integration with WooCommerce
• WooCommerce ajax cart icon + bbPress user menu
• Built-in Facebook Comments: Built-in Facebook comments feature makes it simple to add the Facebook comments system to your WordPress website without any hassle.
• FAQ system with category and live search support.
• Live Search: Your forum members will find the results they are looking for before they finish typing their query.
• Quote replies: Your forum members can clip quotes from previous posts with the click of a button.
• Forum signatures: Your forum members can add a signature to their replies.
• Custom User Role Names and Badges: You can change default bbPress role names (keymaster, moderator etc.) and badge colors.
• 4 different Blog and WooCommerce page layout ( 2 Columns + Sidebar, 2 Columns, 3 Columns and 4 Columns )
• Post Selector: The post selector field of the post listing widgets, allows you to build a query to find posts, products, forums, topics etc. in the database with ease.
• Fast CSS masonry grid layout
• Flexible Header: You can change the background color and add a different cover image to each page.
• Flexible Footer: You can use the page builder and a wide range of widgets to create your own unique footer.
• Social sharing integrated: Disputo comes with social media sharing buttons of the popular social networks.
• Compatible with MailChimp for WordPress. Subscribe your WordPress site visitors to your MailChimp lists, with ease.
• Compatible with SiteOrigin Widget Bundle plugin (Contains 17+ widget)
• Report Content: You can allow users to report topics and replies.
• Private reply: When someone marks his/her reply as private, only admins and moderators can view the reply..
• RTL ready
• Compatible with Contact Form 7 plugin. Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular plugins for easily creating forms for your WordPress site.
• Compatible with Max Mega Menu plugin.
• Made with SEO and Speed in mind
• Developer friendly, clean code
• Compatible with PHP 8.x
• One click demo import
• Translation ready. Language file (.pot) is included. You can translate the theme to any language with ease.
• Extensive help documentation
• Compatible with WordPress 5.x and Gutenberg
• Cross Browser Support
• and much more…

Update History

Version 4.5.1 October 25th, 2022

Fixed enable/disable ads manager bug

Version 4.5 May 24th, 2022

Fixed compatibility issues with Kirki 4.x.
Added new setting to enable/disable custom role names.

Version 4.4.1 November 05th, 2021

Fixed a bug in Youtube TV plugin
Updated demo file

Version 4.4 October 09th, 2021

Code quality and speed improvements
General bug fixes
Fixed PHP 8 compatibility issues
Added “Include users by ID” option to users widget 
Added enable/disable options for user date of birth, gender and location fields
Updated CMB2
Updated demo content

Version 4.3.1 April 13th, 2021

Bug fixes

Version 4.3 December 15th, 2020

Added login form to the header
Added new settings for the login form to Theme Settings -> Header Buttons
Added “only verified users can submit blog post” option to Theme Settings -> User Blog
Added WhatsApp sharing button
Fixed user blog page 404 error
Updated language file

Version 4.2 September 30th, 2020

Added ability to the owner of the forum posts to mark their topics as solved
Added "mark as solved/unsolved" admin links to the topic page. Users don’t have to go to the edit topic page anymore
Added custom url option to the login button (Customizer)
Fixed custom styling issue on Contact form 7 messages
Updated help documentation

Version 4.1 September 04th, 2020

Added solved topic & best answer feature
Added new settings to Disputo Users widget ( Thumbnail grid layout, Thumbnail grid gap, Thumbnail border radius)
Improved my wall design
Added dropdown menu width setting
Added enable/disable private reply setting
Updated demo content
Updated language file
Updated help documentation

Version 4.0 August 28th, 2020

Added Follow User Feature
Added YouTube TV Widget
Added a new topic tag input field
Added show only verified users option to Disputo Users widget
Added show posts from only verified authors option to Disputo post listing widgets
Added “published posts” tab to front-end user blog page
Updated language file
Updated demo file (Added a new homepage)
Updated help documentation

Version 3.5.1 August 13th, 2020

Fixed a bug in Disputo Features plugin ( WordPress 5.5 )

Version 3.5 June 14th, 2020

Added a new feature! Create forums and topics for only verified users (Other users can view the topics but can not post reply).
Added new typography settings (header title, header sub title)
Added custom bbPress role name and badge color settings
Added new setting (remove bbPress breadcrumb menu)
Added Max Mega Menu plugin to the compatibility list
Updated language file (.pot)

Version 3.4 May 15th, 2020

Added new theme setting (Maximum topic title length).
Added new theme setting (Remove page padding and shadow).
Added new setting to Disputo Users widget (Exclude users by id).
Fixed a 404 issue in Disputo Messages plugin.
Updated language file.

Version 3.2.3 April 26th, 2020

Added forum sidebar setting
Updated language file

Version 3.2.2 April 15th, 2020

Fixed a PHP 7.3 compatibility issue (Updated Disputo Messages plugin)

Version 3.2.1 April 14th, 2020

Updated Disputo Features and Disputo Messages plugins to fix a 404 error on user blog and messages pages.

Version 3.2 February 28th, 2020

Fixed some compatibility issues between bbPress and "report content" feature (Updated only Disputo Features plugin).

Version 3.1 February 18th, 2020

Added a new theme setting (Theme Settings->Header Buttons->User Menu Items). You can change the order of the user menu items or enable/disable them.
Added icon url field to Disputo Statistic widget.
Updated CMB2 plugin (Disputo Features).
Updated language file (.pot).
Updated a WooCommerce template (related products).

Version 3.0 December 22th, 2019

Added a new widget. “Disputo Users” widget displays users in a masonry grid
Added a new page template to create users page with a search box
Added verified user feature
Added engagement page to the user profile (bbPress 2.6.3)
Added “registered” field to the user profile
Added search boxes to “topics started”, “replies created” pages
Updated “change password” field
Fixed Instagram embed issue
Added new theme setting (default user post status)
Added new social media sharing icons
Removed “Google +” icon
Added new theme setting (enable/disable social media icon)
Fixed threaded (nested) reply CSS issue
Updated language file (.pot)
Updated help documentation

Version 2.4 November 14th, 2019

CSS fixes (bbPress 2.6)
Fixed favorite link issue (bbPress 2.6)
Fixed blog pagination styling issue (WordPress 5.3)
Updated a few outdated WooCommerce templates (WooCommerce 3.8)

Version 2.3 October 23th, 2019

General bug fixes
Updated Disputo Messages plugin

Version 2.2 August 27th, 2019

Added default user avatar option (Theme Settings -> User Profiles -> Default Avatar) ( Default avatar must be selected as "Disputo Avatar" (Go to Settings -> Discussion -> Default Avatar )
You can now add forum signatures of the users to the header of user profiles ( Theme Settings -> User Profiles)
Added one column blog page template
Added one column blog layout option to theme settings
Added additional user menu items feature to theme settings (Header Buttons)
Added disable user menu option to theme settings (Header Buttons)
Added disable WooCommerce shopping cart icon option to theme settings (Header Buttons)
Updated outdated WooCommerce templates
Fixed WooCommerce select field styling issue
Updated CMB2 (Disputo features plugin)
Updated language file (.pot)
Updated help documentation

Version 2.1 May 07th, 2019

Added New Feature! Private Replies
Added New Feature! Added country flag option to the user profiles
Added "Hide Featured Image" option to posts and pages
Improved live search performance
Removed TML plugin from the theme package. TML plugin is no more supported. We suggest you to use Custom Login Customizer instead.
Added Custom Login Customizer plugin to the theme package
Fixed custom avatar issue in the post comments
Updated WooCommerce templates (Compatibility)
Updated demo file
Updated language file
Updated help documentation

Version 2.0 February 27th, 2019

Redesigned user profile page.
New Feature! Added cover image option to the user profiles.
New Feature! Added custom avatar option to the user profiles.
New Feature! Added social media icons field to the user profiles.
New Feature! Added age, gender, location fields to the user profiles.
New Feature! Added forum signature feature.
Note: After the update, please go to customizer and enable the new features which you want to use.
Updated author box.
Added a new tab to the user menus and a new page for the user blog (Please go to Settings -> Permalinks and click "Save Changes" after the theme update).
Updated media upload button. When "media upload" is enabled, users are only able to view their own uploaded images.
Updated CMB2 plugin.
Updated language file (.pot).
Updated help documentation.

Version 1.6 February 20th, 2019

Added New Feature! - Live Search
Added New Feature! - Quote Topics & Replies
Removed dropdown menu at the topic replies. All links are visible now
Updated mobile menu and user menu icons
Updated help documentation
Updated language file (.pot)

Version 1.5.1 February 06th, 2019

Improved mobile design of the topic replies
Fixed a bug in carousel widget

Version 1.5 January 30th, 2019

Fixed a bug in theme settings
Added one click demo import feature
Updated demo files
Added report topic&reply feature
Gutenberg compatibility
Added DV Shortcode Whitelist plugin to the theme package
Updated language file
Updated CMB2
Updated some WooCommerce templates
Updated help documentation

Version 1.4 October 25th, 2018

Redesigned mobile menu
Enabled header background image on mobiles
Added new setting (Enable/Disable search box on bbPress pages)
Added new setting (Header vertical padding)
CSS Fixes
Updated some WooCommerce templates
Fixed a layout issue on the checkout page
Updated language file (.pot)

Version 1.3.2 September 15th, 2018

Added support for WooCommerce 3.x gallery feature to the theme

Version 1.3.1 June 20th, 2018

Added text editor to Disputo Tabs and Disputo Accordion plugins
A custom version of TML plugin is added to the theme package.
(The latest version of TML plugin (7.x) caused some compatibility issues. Also, they changed free modules with paid extentions. Please don't upgrade TML plugin to 7.x and use the custom version of the plugin which is included in the theme package.)

Version 1.3 June 01th, 2018

Fixed a scrolling issue at Safari 
Updated Woocommerce files for the latest version of Woocommerce

Version 1.2 April 22th, 2018

Added new customization settings to Customizer

Version 1.1 April 17th, 2018

Added home icon to bbPress breadcrumb menu
Added language switcher to user edit profile page