BuddyNext - community engine for WordPress

Documentation

Everything you need to run a BuddyNext community

Covers both BuddyNext (Free) and BuddyNext Pro. Pro-only pages are marked with a PRO badge. New here? Start with Introduction to BuddyNext.

Getting Started

15 pages

Go from a fresh WordPress install to a live community: install, run the setup wizard, and find your way around the admin.

Accounts & Access

10 pages

How people sign up and sign in - registration, social login, email verification, two-factor, onboarding, and account settings.

Community & Activity

14 pages

The activity feed and everything in it: the composer, reactions, comments, polls, shares, bookmarks, hashtags, mentions, search, and Explore.

Members & Social Graph

14 pages

Profiles, custom fields, the member directory, member types, and the social graph - following, connections, blocking, and presence.

Spaces

10 pages

Public, private, and secret communities. Create them, set privacy, manage members and moderators, and turn on the built-in forum.

Messaging & Notifications

5 pages

Private messaging plus the notification and email system - preferences, the email layer, and digests.

Moderation & Trust

7 pages

Keep things healthy: the report button, the moderation queue, user actions, appeals, and content safeguards.

Engagement

4 pages

The things that bring members back - gamification, the leaderboard, real-time updates, and the installable PWA.

Pro Features

27 pages

What BuddyNext Pro adds: membership tiers, gated Spaces, Stripe payments, scheduled posts, broadcast and drip email, analytics, and more.

Integrations

10 pages

Connect BuddyNext to WPMediaVerse, Jetonomy, the gamification add-on, Career Board, and outbound webhooks.

Developer Guide

57 pages

Build on top of BuddyNext: architecture, the data model, the full REST contract, hooks, blocks, WP-CLI, and the Free/Pro contract.

Migrating from BuddyPress

5 pages

What's New

14 pages

Recipes

7 pages