We are very pleased to announce the first release of the Character Premium bbPress Theme. While WordPress enjoys the love of developers it’s time that bbPress got its decent share and attention. While bbPress is slick, lightweight and easy to install, the lack of a premium theme or similar support is a crippling. Not anymore.

Character is the theme you want. Totally flexible and customizable, it features out-of-the-box SEO and critical features like Google Custom Search, Feedburner, Analytics and other third-party scripts integration. Easy configuration for the serious webmaster with access to the power of hooking into the bbPress custom hooks for the developers and coders. Now you can change the layout, add/remove elements, change the markup or customize the style with custom CSS. All this power, ease-of-use, customization comes at a strategic and economical price tag of $20 — very much like buying your bbPress forum a new T-shirt?

The custom hooks in Character only give it more power and flexibility. Some of the hooks comes especially handy when you want to insert ad-banners like AdSense using a particular count or even complex formulae. With Character things just work and you are up and running with a bbPress forum with everything you need and nothing that you don’t. Here’s a short list of only a few other features amongst many —

• Feedburner Integration with True redirection: Get all the features of feedburner and your existing feed is redirected too, thanks to true redirection; now anyone previously subscribed to your old theme or trying to access it directly is redirected to your Feedburner feed. Or even replace the forum feed with the one from your main blog. How cool is that!
• Google Custom Search Integration to harness the power of google search for your bbpress forum. Let’s say this, Google is one powerful search engine which lets you run complex queries, not to mention monetising your Custom Search Engine. Everyone uses it and now this comes as a feature in Character.
• Power Of Custom Hooks for extensive layout customization and control — command your forum as a pro.
• Google Analytics Integration for out of the box site/visitor tracking. Or integrate any other third-party scripts in the header or footer — choice is yours and you are in control.
• Top Notch SEO to help you get to the relevant rank in SERPS. Additionally the defaults are configured such that you don’t need to tweak things untlil you have to. Just get set go.
• Custom Functions to let you customize the theme without touching the core files. Now your customizations are saved automatically through upgrades.
• Custom CSS to let you customize the style without editing the core files. Changes persist through theme updates.
• Integrated Utility Plugin(s): Like Post Position Updater and more. Keeps you run a healthy forum with minimal maintenance.
• Styling Options to let you customize the default style on the fly and with total ease.
• Free Support and Updates.
• Out-of-the-box OpenId integration. just install the Openid Plus for bbPress. Save your visitors time and helps log them in on the fly without the pains of registration.
• Header and Footer Menus for total integration with other (parts of ) website(s). Now navigation isn’t an issue anymore. Additionally a footer menu for accessibility. Additional customization with custom hooks to integrate with your other blog, website or blogroll.
• Regular development, releases and updates for new and popular features while providing bug-fixes. If you want a feature you only have to ask.

With Character we make a promise — that you’d be able to do everything you want without changing your theme or hacking core files and plugins. Character gets you excellent return of investment and most shall recover the cost in just a few days.

Get Character Theme for bbPress.

Demo — See it powering our forums.

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