How to actually build the thing.

Every guide we have written

From choosing a platform to moving your members across. Each one is a plan you can follow, with the real screens and the honest trade-offs.

• Guide How to Create a Membership Site With WordPress A step-by-step guide to building a membership site on WordPress, starting with the one decision that determines every tool you pick after it. Read the guide →
• Guide Lost your YouTube channel? Own your video library A step-by-step plan for rebuilding after a lost channel or page: a members' home on BuddyNext, a video library on WPMediaVerse, paid tiers on your own checkout, and the limits to know. Read the guide →
• Guide Best WordPress Community Plugins: 8 Compared Fairly What is the best community platform for WordPress? A fair look at BuddyBoss, BuddyPress, PeepSo, FluentCommunity, Ultimate Member, wpForo, Jetonomy and BuddyNext. Read the guide →
• Guide Best Self-Hosted Community Platform: Skool Alternatives Skool can't be self-hosted. Here is how Discourse, HumHub, BuddyPress, BuddyBoss and BuddyNext compare when you run the community on your own server. Read the guide →
• Guide Best Private Community Platform for a Site You Fully Own How to build a private community website you own, with member profiles, groups and messaging, and which platforms can actually keep it private. Read the guide →
• Guide Community Platform With No Transaction Fees or Per-User Cost Which community platform doesn't charge per user or take a cut of membership payments? How per-seat, revenue-share and flat pricing differ, and who fits each. Read the guide →
• Guide Community Platform Cost: Circle vs Skool vs WordPress Plugin Circle vs Skool vs a WordPress community plugin: which is cheaper long term for a 2,000-member community? The cost models, a made-up worked example, and hidden time costs. Read the guide →
• Guide How to Migrate From Skool to Your Own WordPress Site There is no Skool importer, but you can still move: export your members, build on staging, invite by CSV, rebuild spaces and run both sites side by side. Read the guide →
• Guide How to Migrate From Circle to Your Own WordPress Site Circle gives you CSV exports and a data request, but no importer exists. Here is the full plan to move to a WordPress community you own. Read the guide →
• Guide How to Migrate From a Facebook Group to Your Own Site Facebook won't hand over your members' emails, so moving a group is an invitation, not an export. Here is the plan, step by step, with BuddyNext. Read the guide →
• Guide Best Free Community Platforms: What Free Really Includes Which community platforms are really free? A fair look at Discord, Facebook Groups, Discourse, HumHub, BuddyPress, FluentCommunity, PeepSo and BuddyNext Free. Read the guide →
• Guide Community Platform With a Mobile App: What BuddyNext Offers Does BuddyNext have a mobile app? Today members install your community as a web app from the browser. Native iOS and Android apps are in development. Read the guide →
• Guide GDPR Compliant Community Platform: What You Control No software makes a community GDPR compliant alone. Here is what a self-hosted platform changes, what BuddyNext gives you, and what stays your job. Read the guide →
• Guide Migrate From Mighty Networks to Your Own WordPress Site Our team can move your Mighty Networks community to WordPress through its API. Here is what moves, what cannot, and the do-it-yourself route. Read the guide →
• Guide All-in-One Community Platform for WordPress, Compared What does an all-in-one community platform for WordPress need? A fair look at how BuddyBoss, FluentCommunity, BuddyPress and BuddyNext cover it. Read the guide →
• Guide Forum and Community on WordPress: Add a Forum to Your Site How to add a forum to a WordPress community without running Discourse. Forum vs feed vs spaces, and how bbPress, wpForo, BuddyBoss and Jetonomy compare. Read the guide →
• Guide Online Course With a Community on WordPress: How to Build It How to run an online course with a community on WordPress, and how LearnDash plus BuddyBoss, FluentCommunity, Kajabi, Circle and Learnomy compare. Read the guide →
• Guide Community Website With Events Calendar and Directory on WordPress How to build a community website with an events calendar, a member directory and a business directory on WordPress, with Eventonomy and Listora. Read the guide →
• Guide Community Management Software: How to Choose, Compared Fairly What community management software must do for an online member community, and how hosted and self-hosted options compare, with where each one wins. Read the guide →
• Guide What Is BuddyPress? What It Does, Where It Stops, and Options BuddyPress is a free WordPress plugin that adds profiles, activity, groups and messages. See who it fits, where it stops, and the options now. Read the guide →
• Guide Types of Online Communities, and the Platform Each One Needs Twelve types of online communities, what members do in each, the features each needs, and which BuddyNext setup or family plugin covers it, with tier. Read the guide →
• Guide Hosting for a WordPress Community Site: What It Actually Needs What hosting does a WordPress community site need? The real requirements, why logged-in traffic changes the answer, and signs that you've outgrown your plan. Read the guide →
• Guide Build a Social Media Site on WordPress: Photos, Videos and a Feed How to create a social media website with WordPress: a feed, profiles with follow, photo and video posts, messages and moderation. What each plugin covers. Read the guide →
• Guide Self-Hosted Slack Alternative for a Community Slack's free plan hides history after 90 days. Compare Zulip, Mattermost, Rocket.Chat and BuddyNext when you want to host your community yourself. Read the guide →
• Guide What Is Community Management? The Job, Tasks and Metrics Community management is the work of helping an online group of members get value and stay active. Tasks, roles, metrics, a weekly routine and tools. Read the guide →
• Guide Online Community Glossary: Terms Every Owner Should Know Plain definitions of 55 online community terms, from spaces and roles to moderation, gating and migration, each linked to a deeper page. Read the guide →
• Guide Community Guidelines: Examples and a Template to Copy What community guidelines are, what to include, three original example sets for different communities, and how to enforce them with reports and a queue. Read the guide →
• Guide What Is a Community App? Native, Web and Installable A community app is where members chat, post and join groups from their phone. Compare native, installable web and mobile web, and how to choose. Read the guide →