KnowBase - A Helpdesk & bbPress WordPress Theme

KnowBase – A premium easy-to-use WordPress theme for free bbPress plugin. It comes with a clean and modern functional design, is an ideal choice for your knowledge base, forum, or bulletin board website. KnowBase layout is optimized for great readability. The theme comes with a native and durable layout suitable for knowledge base and forum websites. KnowBase includes catchy, elegant and modern design elements. Easy-to-use back-end powers flexible and responsive layout. The theme includes support for Elementor. You will receive detailed documentation along with additional features like unlimited color schemes, google webfonts, custom widgets, etc. Functions are based on a solid back-end Redux framework.

Theme Documentation

What is bbPress?

bbPress is a free forum or bulletin board WordPress plugin and it is focused on ease of integration, ease of use, web standards, and speed.

Keeps things as small and light as possible while still allows great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system. What does all that mean? bbPress is lean, mean, and ready to take on any job you throw at it.

Build the Knowledge Base an easy way!

Create a complex knowledge base using just standard WordPress posts. Add a post (solution), list that post in a relevant category and that’s it! No more custom post types and no problem with switching themes.

Live Search Engine

Boost your user experience by providing a user-friendly ajax powered search form with smooth animations and with mobile device support.

Contact or Submit Ticket Form

KnowBase theme includes support for powerful and well-known Contact Form 7 plugin. You can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup.

Main Theme Features:

• Advanced theme admin panel,
• Responsive layout,
• Unlimited color schemes – using colorpickers,
• Google font selector/custom typography,
• Archive templates,
• Translation ready,
• Latest WordPress ready,
• Hide / show most post elements,
• Custom background images,
• Related posts,
• HTML5 & CSS3 & latest WP standards,
• SEO Optimized markup,
• Clean source code,
• Smooth tabless design.

Layouts & Templates:

• Homepage template,
• Full-Width template,
• Error 404,
• Blog template,
• Archive templates,
• Search template – custom template for all post/page types,

Plugin Compatibility:

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-to-any/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-search-lite/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/
• and more..

All awesome illustrations are made by Piyapong Saydaung.

Change Log

// 5 February 2026 //
Version 2.1 
- added: automatic Elementor setup 
- added: better import 
- fixed: admin panel translation 
- fixed: dimension settings (theme.json) 
- improved: Redux Framework inclusion inside the theme_setup function 
- updated: language/translation file

Version 2.0 
- added: child theme (with custom code: new topics are pending) 
- added: custom classes for menu buttons 
- added: new social icons 
- added: dynamic year 
- improved: color scheme 
- improved: responsive mode (mobile) 
- updated: FontAwesome 6 + 
- updated: TGM activation 
- updated: import files (XML) 
- disabled: dev_mode in admin panel 

Version 1.4 
Added: new topics has to be allowed (child theme)

Version 1.3
Updated: XML file (import file)

Version 1.2 
- added: support for 'Ultimate Member' plugin (custom Login/Register pages) 
- improved: 'Profile' page on mobile devices

Version 1.1
- added: child theme

Version 1.0
- initial release