Bbpress themes is a simple yet fast and elegant theme. It is a one column with useful buttons for subscribe and comment. If you notice, it is actually based on the Bbpress software itself.

To give more function to this theme, it is suggested to install the following plugins:
Ultimate Tag Warrior
Add Bookmarks
WP-Postviews
WP-PostRatings
WP-Stats
WP Comment Quicktags Plus
WP Grins
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Can you integrate a simple forum into your Wordpress blog and allow users to have the same login for the blog and the forum, all without messing around with Wordpress plugins and theme modifications?
Yes, you can. The answer, as I discovered on Lorelle’s blog, is NOT a Wordpress plugin.
It’s bbPress, another venture by the same [...]