Image Upload for bbPress Pro

Image Upload for bbPress Pro is a WordPress plugin designed to enrich bbPress forums by allowing images to be included inline directly in discussion topics and replies. Developed by Potent Plugins, this plugin transforms the forum experience by letting site visitors insert images easily and attractively, without requiring technical knowledge.

The plugin incorporates a fully responsive drag-and-drop image uploader that supports inserting multiple images at once. Users can upload images from their mobile or desktop devices with just a tap or click on the upload dialog. It also includes a built-in lightbox that lets visitors enlarge images by clicking on them and browse through a gallery of all images contained in a forum post.

Among its most notable features are the automatic generation of separate thumbnails for uploaded images, while retaining a larger version for the lightbox; the ability to upload animated GIFs while preserving their animation; automatic resizing of images to fit specified maximum dimensions; and the conversion of all images to a single format if desired. It also allows setting PNG and JPEG compression levels to reduce disk space, changing the directory where uploaded images are stored, limiting which user roles can upload images, and restricting the maximum number of images allowed per topic or reply.

The plugin provides statistics on the total number of images and file sizes, and optionally allows using Amazon S3 to store and serve uploaded images in forum posts, via an additional plugin. Administrators can configure whether to use the full TinyMCE visual editor or the reduced editor, as well as enable or disable the custom image dialog included with the plugin.

Image Upload for bbPress Pro is aimed at WordPress site administrators who manage active communities with bbPress forums and want to offer their users a richer and more visual publishing experience, improving engagement and the quality of content generated in their forums.