miniBB Downloads

They are all on the same big page here, the one and only place where all related official miniBB downloads are collected. Except a special indication, all packages comes FREE at no charge. Each of them have been compressed in ".zip" format, contents are 100% open source, do not contain any viruses or spyware - guaranteed!

• Forum Software - main miniBB script, changes history and upgrade tool from the versions earlier than 1.7g.
• Core Add-ons - over 20 original miniBB extensions and third party add-ons, which enhance your board, keeping oriented for easy upgrades.
• Extra BB codes - additional snippets to format look & feel of the forum messages.
• Utilities - database converters, which could help bringing your older miniBB to modern life.
• Tutorials - extra examples of how to use some non-destructive code tactics in miniBB.
• Synchronizations, Integrations - tutorials which help you to synchronize your current system's users data with miniBB.
• Language Packs - over 40 third party translations available! Feel free to submit your update or new language pack to us.
• Icons - picture food for your forums.

Basic forum software and important extras *
Try our branding miniBB Online Compiler - it's FREE! Embedding all major miniBB add-ons now means few clicks and few seconds. After that, you're a step away from installing and running the Full package or the package of your Choice. Enjoy the new way of building a program, which you never find elsewhere!
miniBB ®	3.6.1 24-Jun-2023	miniBB.com	The currently supported version of miniBB. Check the installation and upgrade instructions inside the archive (README.txt for the new installation). See it in action: on our Live Forums (always up-to-date version) or Demo Forums (there might be a slight delay in updates).
Updates' History	24-Jun-2023	miniBB.com	Updates' history and instructions of upgrading intermediate versions of miniBB 2.x series, also as SQL commands file for upgrading your database to the current version. Read miniBB Upgrade Manual on how to use these instructions effectively.
Add-ons (Plugins, Extensions... however you call them)
$Human Authorization (CAPTCHA)	3.1 27-Jun-2023	miniBB.com	Protects your forums from automated spam and flood, at the same time allowing guests to post. High level of customization disallows recognition programs to encode it. Test it in action on our support forums or test forums.
:-)Keyword-rich URLs	3.4 20-Jul-2023	miniBB.com	The package of few various modules, which will transform internal forum hyperlinks on-the-fly, so they contain related keywords. Must-have for SEO fans! We're using one of such modules on our Community Forums.
$Mobile Version	3.5 1-Jun-2024	miniBB.com	Enabled for the Mobile/Responsive mode of miniBB Forums, the package itself includes step-by-step guide and codes of how to make your forum fitting portable devices and/or smartphones, switching to the responsive mode automatically. Test it in action with all add-ons!
:-)Disclaimer & Policy	3.5 24-Nov-2023	miniBB.com	Disclaimer/Policy approval before Registration. Test it in action!
$Contacts Form	3.1 11-Jun-2024	miniBB.com	The Contacts Form script, which could be used not just for an existing miniBB forum, but even for a standalone template or website. That's the one we use on miniBB.com - check its link amongth the top menu items, or in the footer. Also possible to test it in action on test forums.
:-)Smilies	3.3 11-Jun-2024	miniBB.com	Allows to insert a smiley (emoji) in messages. Possible to customize/provide the list of your own very special smilies/emojis Test it in action!
:-)Avatars	3.3 18-Jun-2024	miniBB.com	Choose pre-defined, and/or upload avatars from disk. Test it in action!
:-)Signatures	3.6 7-Jun-2023	miniBB.com	Allows to display a member's signature under each message. Test it in action!
$File Upload, Attachments and Mini-Galleries	3.3 26-Jun-2024	miniBB.com	Allows to attach files to your messages and create mini-galleries within picture forums. Click here for more or test it in action!
$File Bank	3.6 5-May-2023	miniBB.com	The standalone File Uploading script, which allows to keep files all in one place, and refer to them in forum messages; merged with the forums' membership. Click here for more or test it in action!
$Private Messaging Service	3.4 28-May-2024	miniBB.com	Allows forum's registered users to communicate with each other privately. Click here for more or test it in action!
$Polls & Surveys	3.3 11-Jun-2024	miniBB.com	Universal Polls solution for your forums, optionally allowing multiple Polls or one Poll, per topic, or all polls collected in one section. Guests could be allowed to vote. Click here for more or test it in action!
$Photo Album	3.4 27-Apr-2021	miniBB.com	Allows forum members to share images of their own in the profile, that way turning your forums into a dating board. Click here for more or test it in action!
$Forums Checker	3.4 7-Jun-2023	miniBB.com	The tool for the instant checking of unread messages. Click here for more.
:-)Profiles Checker	3.3 22-Mar-2023	miniBB.com	The tool for the instant checking of member profile updates. Test it in action!
:-)"Anti-Guest"	3.4 17-Jun-2024	lime, Paul	For disabling guests and new accounts from posting URLs, email addresses, and forbidden words. Developed in collaboration with 3rd party. Test it in action!
:-)First page news	3.4 28-Mar-2023	miniBB.com	Allows to display recents posts or topics on a standalone page, such as a website's first page. That one we use on our primary homepage now.
:-)RSS	3.5 7-Jun-2023	miniBB.com	RSS feed for your forums [RSS format 2.0]. Set up at our Live Forums.
:-)Advanced Anchors	3.5 23-Apr-2021	miniBB.com	Provides more sophisticated and stronger linking of internal messages, incl. message-level anchors. Enabled at our Live Forums.
:-)Who's Online	3.3 8-Jun-2023	miniBB.com	Instant displaying of online guests and members on forums. Test it in action!
:-)Last Visit	3.3 26-Mar-2019	miniBB.com	The date of the most recent member visit recorded and displayed under the profile. Test it in action!
:-)Time Ago	3.3 22-Jun-2018	miniBB.com	The add-on to replace all formatted dates to the "time-ago" format, i.e. "Posted X minutes/hours/days ago". Test it in action!
$Pre-moderation	3.4 22-Mar-2023	miniBB.com	Show topics/messages and possibly attached images and files to public, only after they are approved by forum moderators. Click here for more or test it in action!
:-)"Bad" words filter	3.4 14-Feb-2022	miniBB.com	Replaces defined "bad" words with asterisks. Test it in action!
:-)Members List	3.3 15-Oct-2020	miniBB.com	Generates a list of currently registered members with few searching and sorting options. Test it in action!
:-)Gender	3.3 19-Jun-2018	miniBB.com	Specify Gender, choosing from a dropdown on the Profile page. Test it in action!
:-)Ranks	3.3 19-Jun-2018	miniBB.com	Customized user ranks based on posts amount, appearing near the username. Test it in action!
:-)Direct email	3.3 22-Mar-2023	miniBB.com	Allows any visitor to send an email to the forums partaker via the standard form, if a member has disabled showing email to public. Email is sent via the same function miniBB uses by default. Also works with the Captcha add-on.
:-)Merge Topics	3.3 19-Jun-2018	miniBB.com	Allows forums administrator to attach the newer topic to the end of the older, or "merge" two topics into one. Test it in action!
:-)Multiple Topics Action	3.3 30-Sep-2018	miniBB.com	Allows to delete or move multiple topics at once, marking them with boxes appearing under topics listing.
:-)Unchecked Topics Indicator	3.5 28-Apr-2021	miniBB.com	Puts a special icon near topics titles and/or forums, indicating unread messages inside of them.
:-)Check User's IPs By ID	3.3 18-Jun-2018	miniBB.com	Being board's administrator, you could analyze IP addresses of a registered member knowing user's ID. Test it in action!
:-)Users Month Stats	3.3 1-Jun-2024	miniBB.com	View statistics by number of user replies in a given month. Test it in action!
:-)New Configurable Topic Form	3.4 8-Jun-2023	miniBB.com	Display the New Topic Form on the Main Forums page and a separate Topic Form on the Topics page.
:-)Essential Nickname	3.3 19-Jun-2018	miniBB.com	JavaScript tutorial to force Guests for entering their nickname before posting. Test it in action!
:-)Calendar	2.0	Juan Carlos Udias, miniBB.com	Browse calendar to view messages posted at the certain day.
:-)Content Rotator	3.0 3-May-2012	Tom from 'seothatworks', miniBB.com	Rotates ten different html or text snippets (ads, banners...) for the certain forum's topics.
Extra BB codes
Color Picker	3.3 17-Dec-2018	miniBB.com	Allows to pick up a color of the posted text just with a few mouse clicks. Test it in action!
YouTube Videos	3.3 25-Nov-2024	miniBB.com	Allows to embed YouTube videos in postings. Test it in action!
Vimeo Videos	3.3 17-Dec-2018	miniBB.com	Allows to embed Vimeo videos in postings. Test it in action!
Bulleted List	3.3 17-Jun-2024	miniBB.com	Allows to post bulleted lists in messages. Test it in action!
Spoiler	3.3 1-Jun-2024	miniBB.com	Allows making part of a message initially hidden from public. Test it in action!
Highlight Text	3.3 17-Dec-2018	miniBB.com	Extension to the default [hl] tag of miniBB, appearing as a button to members only. Test it in action!
Strikethrough Text	3.3 8-Jun-2023	miniBB.com	Allows to put the "strike-through" styling on text. Test it in action!
Utilities
Database check for encodings and collations	14-Mar-2023	miniBB.com	dbs_check.php - a quick script to check what character set your forum database has, and if there are all proper column collations installed. Specially useful for UTF8-based forums.
Uploaded file type's check	18-Jul-2023	miniBB.com	fileupload_typext.php - use this script to allow/add new file extensions and types for uploading in such add-ons as File and Pictures Attachments, File Bank etc.
Database upgrading script	14-May-2021	miniBB.com	Incl. convdb.php - database upgrading utility (from 1.7f to the latest release or from 2.0 RC2b to the latest release - updates number of topics, posts, user messages number, latest post time, latest poster username); dbs_convert_fav2watch.php - an optional upgrading script from the abandoned Favorites add-on to the Watching feature (introduced in miniBB 3.5).
Subscription codes upgrading script	6-Jan-2012	miniBB.com	renew_subcodes.php - the script to renew subscription codes from the format they were provided in miniBB versions earlier than 3.x.
Self-closed HTML tags replacement script	20-Mar-2023	miniBB.com	replace_selfclosed.php - the script to search and replace self-closing HTML elements, like <br />, <img ... /> (in miniBB versions prior to 3.6).
The script to replace "text/javascript" instances	20-Mar-2023	miniBB.com	replace_script.php - the script to search and remove `type="text/javascript"` instances from the <script> tags, also outdated comments like <!-- and //--> (in miniBB versions prior to 3.6).
The script to review and null text-based values of miniBB members' Profiles	14-Mar-2023	miniBB.com	check_profile_field.php - the script to analyze and possibly empty improperly set values in the Profile's text-based fields like Interests, Occupation, Country, Motto etc.
Tutorials
Adding new user's profile field	2.0 14-Mar-2008	Paul	Detailed tutorial about how to add a new custom field to user's profile and display it on forum. Birthday and China Horoscope code snippets are included.
Wordpress Auth Module for miniBB	2.2, 3.0+ 17-Jan-2016	miniBB.com	Lets your Wordpress users able to post with the same member's login on forums.
Synchronizations, Integrations
Synchronizing 3rd party software's users database with miniBB	2.0, 3.0+	miniBB.com	This guide shows how an almost every existing users database of a website could be adjusted to miniBB membership.
"Determine Fields"	2.0, 3.0+ 23-Sep-2014	miniBB.com	A simple script which will help to determine field number indexes quickly. Useful for those who are creating/adding new user profile fields in miniBB.
Language packs **
We are always looking for native writers to provide the translations to their language, and/or to convert existing translations to UTF-8. Most of packages listed below, were created in the times of first releases of miniBB, and now they could be only partially compatible with the most recent release. Make your submission and get rewarded by a permanent link or set of the premium add-ons!
Albanian	1.7	fimmi	Language pack, email templates ISO-8859-1
Arabic	2.3	N/A	Language pack Windows-1256
Belarusian	2.2 3-Jul-2008	Sergei Stanislawchik	Language pack, email templates Windows-1251
Bosnian	2.0 6-Oct-2005	SeQuniX	Language pack ISO-8859-1
Bulgarian	2.0 RC6e 19-May-2006	Pierrot	Language pack Windows-1251
Catalan	1.7	simkin, Dylaks	Language pack, email templates ISO-8859-1
Chinese (Simplified)	3.0 13-Jan-2012	Sluke, waterg	Language pack, email templates GBK, UTF-8
Chinese (Traditional)	3.0 13-Jan-2012	Sluke, waterg	Language pack, email templates GBK, UTF-8
Croatian	1.7	Davor Tomizh	Language pack Windows-1250
Czech	3.4 5-Jul-2019	Karel Běhounek	Language pack, email templates UTF-8
Danish	1.7	Kenneth Fribert	Language pack ISO-8859-1
Dutch (Netherlands)	2.0 RC5 27-Jan-2006	Marco	Language pack, email templates ISO-8859-1
Estonian	1.7	Veigo	Language pack ISO-8859-1
Finnish	3.0.1 22-Mar-2013	Petri Ikonen	Language pack, email templates ISO-8859-1
French	3.1 19-Jan-2015	Patrick Allaire	Language pack, email templates UTF-8
Galician	2.1 31-Dec-2007	egalego	Language pack, email templates ISO-8859-1
Georgian	1.0 26-Oct-2005	Revaz Eristavi	Language pack UTF-8
German	3.6.1 31-Dec-2023	Jaime, calamillor.org	Language pack, email templates UTF-8
Greek	2.0 RC5 5-Jan-2006	Spiros Doikas, The Greek translation vortal	Language pack UTF-8
Hebrew	2.0 RC5a 27-Mar-2006	Goran Ljubuncic	Language pack, email templates UTF-8
Hungarian	2.0.2 7-Sep-2006	Koles Mihaly, Seth	Language pack, email templates; translations for Poll, Smilies, Who's Online plugins ISO-8859-2
Indonesian	2.0.2 20-Oct-2006	Yudhista Aditya	Language pack, email templates ISO-8859-1
Italian	2.3 28-Jun-2009	Michelangelo Turillo	Language pack, email templates ISO-8859-1
Japanese	2.1 13-Nov-2007	Mitsuhiro Yoshida	Language pack, email templates UTF-8
Korean	1.7	sam	Language pack EUC-KR
Kurdish	2.2 13-Aug-2008	Webchin.org	Language pack UTF-8
Latvian	1.7	Virtualis	Language pack Windows-1257
Lithuanian	3.0.1 25-Nov-2013	Žygimantas Žąsytis	Language pack, email templates UTF-8
Malay	1.7	Aiesa Saad	Language pack ISO-8859-1
Norwegian	2.0.3	Hein Tore Tonnesen, Ole Martin Handeland	Language pack, email templates ISO-8859-1
Persian	3.0.1 01-May-2013	looti.net	Language pack, CSS UTF-8
Polish	2.2 26-Jan-2009	Jakub Trojanowski, Michal Szczesny	Language pack ISO-8859-2, UTF-8
Portuguese	1.3	Grupo Easylogics	Language pack ISO-8859-1
Portuguese (Brazil)	2.0.2 20-Sep-2005	Inacio Guerberoff, Flavio Jarabeck	Language pack ISO-8859-1
Romanian	2.0 1-Oct-2005	BeGe	Language pack ISO-8859-2
Russian	3.6 22-May-2023	WebBook, 2ramil, Paul	Language pack, email templates UTF-8
Serbian (Cyrillic)	1.7	Radionica za srpski jezik i kulturu, Valjevo	Language pack UTF-8
Serbian (Latin)	1.7	Radionica za srpski jezik i kulturu, Valjevo	Language pack UTF-8
Slovak	2.0 RC6e 8-Jun-2006	Fedor Tirsel	Language pack, email templates ISO-8859-2
Slovenian	3.3	Iztok Stotl, Anton Šijanec	Language pack UTF-8
Spanish	3.0 5-Apr-2012	SebasGnu at Hispalinux, UnSleep, Marc Antonsen, K3_, and others	Language pack, email templates ISO-8859-1
Swedish	2.0 RC3a	Suzana Ramadani, Christian Ohlsson, Lars Holmbring	Language pack, email templates ISO-8859-1
Thai	1.0	Oran Chidenzee	Language pack, email templates Windows-874
Turkish	2.0.2 24-Oct-2006	Aylin Ozturk, Plusediz Group; Kaan Hanodlu	Language pack ISO-8859-9
Ukrainian	1.7	Victoria Shevtsova	Language pack, email templates Windows-1251
Urdu	2.0.4 15-May-2007	Rozinya Khanum	Language pack, additions UTF-8
Vietnamese	3.0 17-Feb-2012	Krixtal Fashion	Language pack, email templates UTF-8
Forum Icons
Mini Icons	19-May-2005	Mark James	Set of 144 GIF icons, 16x16 pix wide
Various icons	20-Jun-2002	'Various artists'	Older example icons of what miniBB team has collected and designed