Pro Features
Free & Pro27 pages in this section.
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| What BuddyNext Pro Adds | BuddyNext Free is a complete community platform - feed, spaces, profiles, messaging, moderation, and search - and you can run a busy community on it forever.... |
| Membership Plans | Membership plans are the plans, free or paid, that you offer your community. Each plan carries a price, a billing schedule, and a set of perks (the features and... |
| Gating Spaces Behind a Membership | A gated space is a space only members on a particular plan can join. When someone without the right membership tries to enter, BuddyNext shows a paywall - a friendly... |
| Stripe Payments | Stripe is the payment gateway BuddyNext Pro uses to take real payments for memberships. You connect your Stripe account once, and from then on members can buy a plan... |
| Content Protection | Content Protection locks individual posts, pages, and even sections inside a page behind membership. Non-members see a short teaser and a friendly locked card... |
| Scheduled posts | Scheduled posts let a member write something now and have it publish automatically at a future date and time. The post stays out of every feed until its moment... |
| Multiple pinned posts | Pinning keeps a post at the top of a member's profile so it is the first thing visitors see. Free BuddyNext lets a member pin one post to their profile. Pro raises... |
| Custom Reactions | Custom Reactions let you add your own emoji to the six reactions that ship with BuddyNext Free. You pick an emoji, give it a label, and it appears in the reaction... |
| Member Labels | Member Labels are badges you define and hand out to members - things like Verified, Expert, or Staff. Each label has a name, a color, and an optional icon, and it... |
| Advanced Profile Field Types (Pro) | Pro adds five richer profile field types on top of the free profile builder: an enhanced date, a map-based location, an advanced multi-select, an advanced number with... |
| Advanced Member Search (Pro) | Pro adds five member-search filters on top of the free search - filter members by membership plan, by space, by member label, by when they joined, and by how recently... |
| Analytics Dashboard | The analytics dashboard is a Pro admin area that turns your community's activity into numbers you can read at a glance: how many people show up, what content lands,... |
| Broadcast Email | Broadcast email is a Pro feature that lets you send a one-off email campaign to your members. You write a campaign once - name, subject, and body - pick which members... |
| Drip Sequences | A drip sequence is an automated series of emails that goes out to a member over time, on a schedule you set. You build the sequence once, choose what starts it, and... |
| Auto-Moderation Rules | Auto-moderation rules let you set conditions that act on content automatically - blocking a banned word, flagging a spammy link, capping how fast someone can post, or... |
| AI Feed and Moderation | BuddyNext Pro adds three AI-assisted features that share one connection: AI feed ranking re-orders the home feed by how relevant each post is likely to be for the... |
| Bulk Moderation | Bulk Moderation is a Pro admin page that lets you act on many moderation items at once: select multiple reports and dismiss or remove them together, or enter a list... |
| Push Notifications | Push Notifications (Pro) delivers your community's notifications to a member's browser through Firebase Cloud Messaging, so a member sees a banner even when they are... |
| Real-time WebSocket | Real-time WebSocket (Pro) connects your community to a WebSocket server so notifications, feed activity, and messaging update the instant they happen, instead of... |
| Unlimited webhooks | Outbound webhooks let your community send a signed message to an outside service every time something happens - a member registers, a post is created, someone follows... |
| White-label branding | White-label branding replaces BuddyNext's identity with your own across the WordPress admin - a brand name and a logo in place of "BuddyNext." Your team (or your... |
| Per-space branding (removed in 1.0.7) | Per-space branding - giving an individual space its own logo, accent color, font, and custom CSS on top of the site-wide brand - has been removed from BuddyNext Pro... |
| Payment Gateways | BuddyNext Pro is built to work with whichever payment gateway you connect, not just one. You enable the gateways you want on a single Payment Gateways tab, each shows... |
| Coupons and Tax | BuddyNext Pro lets you run discount codes and apply a flat tax to membership purchases. Both are worked out by BuddyNext itself before any payment gateway is called,... |
| Suite Portfolio | The Portfolio tab is a single profile tab that gathers a member's activity from your other Wbcom apps into one place. Jobs and a resume from Career Board, listings... |
| Deploying a realtime server | Real-time WebSocket (Pro) needs a server that speaks the Pusher protocol. This page is the deployment guide: how to stand one up, put it behind HTTPS, and confirm it... |
| Renewal reminders | Renewal reminders warn a member before their membership renews or ends. Two different things are happening, so they are two different emails: one tells a member their... |