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React to new topics and replies, and create topics, post replies and moderate bbPress forums.

  • 6 triggers · 5 actions
  • 2 steps on Free · all 11 on Business
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Triggers and actions

What you can automate with bbPress

Every step bbPress adds to FlowWP, named and described as it appears in the editor, with the plan that includes it.

Triggers 6

Events in bbPress that can start a workflow.

  • A topic is created in a bbPress forum

    Posted from the forum, by a member or a guest. Optionally only in one forum. Spam is left out.

    Free
    Data it passes on · 23 values

    Author (member)

    • User ID
    • Username
    • Email
    • Display name
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Slug
    • Website
    • Roles
    • Registered on
    • Edit link

    Author

    • Name
    • Email
    • Posted as a guest

    Topic

    • Topic ID
    • Topic title
    • Text
    • Topic URL
    • Status
    • Tags

    Forum

    • Forum ID
    • Forum title
    • Forum URL

  • A reply is posted in a bbPress topic

    Posted from the forum, by a member or a guest. Optionally only in one forum or topic. Spam is left out.

    Free
    Data it passes on · 28 values

    Author (member)

    • User ID
    • Username
    • Email
    • Display name
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Slug
    • Website
    • Roles
    • Registered on
    • Edit link

    Author

    • Name
    • Email
    • Posted as a guest

    Reply

    • Reply ID
    • Text
    • Reply URL
    • Status
    • Answers reply ID

    Topic

    • Topic ID
    • Topic title
    • Text
    • Topic URL
    • Status
    • Tags

    Forum

    • Forum ID
    • Forum title
    • Forum URL

  • A bbPress topic is closed

    No more replies. The topic’s author is the user; whoever closed it comes with it.

    Personal plan
    Data it passes on · 34 values

    Author (member)

    • User ID
    • Username
    • Email
    • Display name
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Slug
    • Website
    • Roles
    • Registered on
    • Edit link

    Author

    • Name
    • Email
    • Posted as a guest

    Topic

    • Topic ID
    • Topic title
    • Text
    • Topic URL
    • Status
    • Tags

    Forum

    • Forum ID
    • Forum title
    • Forum URL

    Closed by

    • User ID
    • Username
    • Email
    • Display name
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Slug
    • Website
    • Roles
    • Registered on
    • Edit link

  • A user subscribes to a bbPress forum or topic

    To hear of new topics in a forum, or new replies in a topic. Optionally only one kind, or only in one forum.

    Business plan
    Data it passes on · 21 values

    Subscriber

    • User ID
    • Username
    • Email
    • Display name
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Slug
    • Website
    • Roles
    • Registered on
    • Edit link
    • Subscribed to (forum or topic)

    Topic

    • Topic ID
    • Topic title
    • Text
    • Topic URL
    • Status
    • Tags

    Forum

    • Forum ID
    • Forum title
    • Forum URL

  • A bbPress topic is marked as spam

    By a moderator, or by Akismet. The topic’s author is the user.

    Business plan
    Data it passes on · 34 values

    Author (member)

    • User ID
    • Username
    • Email
    • Display name
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Slug
    • Website
    • Roles
    • Registered on
    • Edit link

    Author

    • Name
    • Email
    • Posted as a guest

    Topic

    • Topic ID
    • Topic title
    • Text
    • Topic URL
    • Status
    • Tags

    Forum

    • Forum ID
    • Forum title
    • Forum URL

    Marked by

    • User ID
    • Username
    • Email
    • Display name
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Slug
    • Website
    • Roles
    • Registered on
    • Edit link

  • A bbPress reply is marked as spam

    By a moderator, or by Akismet. The reply’s author is the user.

    Business plan
    Data it passes on · 39 values

    Author (member)

    • User ID
    • Username
    • Email
    • Display name
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Slug
    • Website
    • Roles
    • Registered on
    • Edit link

    Author

    • Name
    • Email
    • Posted as a guest

    Reply

    • Reply ID
    • Text
    • Reply URL
    • Status
    • Answers reply ID

    Topic

    • Topic ID
    • Topic title
    • Text
    • Topic URL
    • Status
    • Tags

    Forum

    • Forum ID
    • Forum title
    • Forum URL

    Marked by

    • User ID
    • Username
    • Email
    • Display name
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Slug
    • Website
    • Roles
    • Registered on
    • Edit link

Actions 5

What a workflow can do in bbPress.

  • Create a bbPress topic

    In the forum you choose, as the member you choose.

    Personal plan
    Data it passes on · 23 values

    Author (member)

    • User ID
    • Username
    • Email
    • Display name
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Slug
    • Website
    • Roles
    • Registered on
    • Edit link

    Author

    • Name
    • Email
    • Posted as a guest

    Topic

    • Topic ID
    • Topic title
    • Text
    • Topic URL
    • Status
    • Tags

    Forum

    • Forum ID
    • Forum title
    • Forum URL

  • Post a reply in a bbPress topic

    As the member you choose. Closed topics take replies from here too.

    Business plan
    Data it passes on · 28 values

    Author (member)

    • User ID
    • Username
    • Email
    • Display name
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Slug
    • Website
    • Roles
    • Registered on
    • Edit link

    Author

    • Name
    • Email
    • Posted as a guest

    Reply

    • Reply ID
    • Text
    • Reply URL
    • Status
    • Answers reply ID

    Topic

    • Topic ID
    • Topic title
    • Text
    • Topic URL
    • Status
    • Tags

    Forum

    • Forum ID
    • Forum title
    • Forum URL

  • Close or open a bbPress topic

    A closed topic takes no more replies from the forum.

    Business plan
    Data it passes on · 24 values

    Author (member)

    • User ID
    • Username
    • Email
    • Display name
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Slug
    • Website
    • Roles
    • Registered on
    • Edit link

    Author

    • Name
    • Email
    • Posted as a guest

    Topic

    • Topic ID
    • Topic title
    • Text
    • Topic URL
    • Status
    • Tags

    Forum

    • Forum ID
    • Forum title
    • Forum URL
    • Was closed before

  • Stick or unstick a bbPress topic

    Keep it at the top of its forum, or of every forum.

    Business plan
    Data it passes on · 25 values

    Author (member)

    • User ID
    • Username
    • Email
    • Display name
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Slug
    • Website
    • Roles
    • Registered on
    • Edit link

    Author

    • Name
    • Email
    • Posted as a guest

    Topic

    • Topic ID
    • Topic title
    • Text
    • Topic URL
    • Status
    • Tags

    Forum

    • Forum ID
    • Forum title
    • Forum URL
    • Sticky now (forum, front or none)
    • Sticky before (forum, front or none)

  • Subscribe a user to a bbPress forum or topic

    Or unsubscribe them. bbPress emails forum subscribers about new topics, and topic subscribers about new replies.

    Business plan
    Data it passes on · 22 values

    Subscriber

    • User ID
    • Username
    • Email
    • Display name
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Slug
    • Website
    • Roles
    • Registered on
    • Edit link
    • Subscribed to (forum or topic)
    • Was subscribed before

    Topic

    • Topic ID
    • Topic title
    • Text
    • Topic URL
    • Status
    • Tags

    Forum

    • Forum ID
    • Forum title
    • Forum URL

Set it up

  1. 1Install and activate bbPress on your WordPress site.
  2. 2FlowWP finds it and adds its steps to the step library. If bbPress is missing, FlowWP says so instead of hiding them.
  3. 3Pick a bbPress step in any workflow. Every value it passes on is in the token picker.

Where it runs

bbPress steps run inside WordPress, on your own server. FlowWP only contacts an outside service when you add a connection to one or use a step that needs it.

Nothing runs until you activate a workflow, and every run is recorded step by step.

Templates

Start from a bbPress workflow

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    1. bbPress logoTrigger: A topic is created in a bbPress forum (bbPress)
    2. Action: Send Email (Email)
    CommunityFree

    Tell moderators about new forum topics

    An email for each topic posted in your forums, guests’ included, with what it says and whether it waits for approval.

    2 stepsBeginner
    1. bbPress logoTrigger: A bbPress topic is closed (bbPress)
    2. Action: Send Email (Email)
    CommunityPersonal plan

    Tell authors when their forum topic is closed

    A short, friendly email to whoever started the topic, so a closed thread does not read as being ignored.

    2 stepsBeginner

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