Best community plugins for WordPress

Ultimate Member

#274

by Ultimate Member6 days ago

Membership & community plugin with user profiles, registration & login, member directories, content restriction, user roles and much more.

BuddyPress

Down in the last 7 days:1#483

by BuddyPress16 days ago

Get together safely, in your own way, in WordPress.

Ultimate Member

Down in the last 7 days:2#1,213

by Mykyta Synelnikov1 year ago

Stop bots on your registration & login forms with Google reCAPTCHA

wpForo Forum

Up in the last 7 days:5#1,377

by Tomdever6 days ago

Number one WordPress forum plugin with AI features. Full-fledged forum solution with modern forum design. Community builder WordPress forum plugin.

Asgaros Forum

Up in the last 7 days:2#1,934

by Asgaros16 days ago

Asgaros Forum is the best forum-plugin for WordPress! It comes with dozens of features in a beautiful design and stays simple and fast.

FluentCommunity

Up in the last 7 days:7#2,357

by WPManageNinja3 days ago

Get a fast & all-in-one community plugin. Create unlimited communities, and courses with robust social networking and LMS features.

ProfileGrid

Down in the last 7 days:9#3,182

by Metagauss4 days ago

Custom user profiles plugin ❤ with paid memberships, groups, communities, content restriction, user registration, messaging, WooCommerce memberships, …

Youzify

Down in the last 7 days:15#3,194

by Youzify7 months ago

The best BuddyPress plugin for building online communities, user profile, social networks, and membership sites on WordPress with tons of features.

Ultimate Member

Down in the last 7 days:5#3,424

by Mykyta Synelnikov1 year ago

Add a terms and condition checkbox to your registration forms & require users to agree to your T&Cs before registering on your site.

Ultimate Member

Down in the last 7 days:13#4,014

by Mykyta Synelnikov2 years ago

This Ultimate Member extension will allow you to display online users anywhere with a shortcode.

Verified Member for BuddyPress

Down in the last 7 days:36#4,276

by Themosaurus1 year ago

Verify your BuddyPress members and display a twitter-like verified badge on the front-end.

SpeakOut! Email Petitions

Down in the last 7 days:16#4,302

by DigitalME1 month ago

SpeakOut! Email Petitions makes it easy to add petitions to your website and rally your community to Speak Out about a cause by using direct action.

Discussion Board

Down in the last 7 days:14#5,093

by Marketing Fire16 days ago

Discussion Board is a simple, effective way to add a forum or discussion board to your site, helping you build and engage an active community.

SureDash

Down in the last 7 days:3#5,848

by Brainstorm Force3 days ago

Build a community right inside WordPress. Discussion spaces, courses, member profiles, and a beautiful dashboard — no coding needed.

Membership For WooCommerce

Down in the last 7 days:75#7,640

by WP Swings9 days ago

The membership plugin lets you easily restrict content, build online communities, customize user roles, & quickly manage access permissions.

Forumax

Down in the last 7 days:56#8,860

by Spider Themes5 days ago

Build powerful communities with Forumax. A fully standalone, feature-rich forum plugin with voting, private replies, and Elementor integration.

IntenseDebate Comments

Down in the last 7 days:16#8,975

by Automattic3 years ago

IntenseDebate comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog. Build your reader community, increase your comments, & boost pageviews.

Ultimate Member

Down in the last 7 days:89#9,224

by Mykyta Synelnikov1 year ago

Integrate Ultimate Member with the forum plugin ForumWP.

bbPress Voting

Up in the last 7 days:3#9,468

by natekinkead2 months ago

Let visitors vote up and down on bbPress topics and replies just like Reddit or Stack Overflow!

Wbcom Designs

Down in the last 7 days:22#9,945

by wbcomdesigns6 months ago

Display upcoming birthdays of BuddyPress members with a beautiful, responsive widget that integrates seamlessly with any WordPress theme.

Petitioner

Up in the last 7 days:9#11,182

by Anton Voytenko27 days ago

Create, target, and track high-impact petitions with Petitioner: automate delivery to decision-makers, manage approvals, and export rich submission da …

Wbcom Designs

Up in the last 7 days:10#11,191

by wbcomdesigns5 days ago

Let members review and rate each other on their profiles. Build trust with star ratings, custom criteria, moderation, and directory ratings.

bbPress Members Only

Down in the last 7 days:1#13,373

by Tomas1 year ago

bbPress Members Only restricts Your bbPress forums to logged in/registered members.

BuddyKit

Down in the last 7 days:7#14,612

by Joseph G.7 years ago

BuddyKit adds several features like Live Notifications and Media Activities to your BuddyPress powered websites.

Vanilla Forums

Up in the last 7 days:25#15,642

by VanillaForums6 years ago

Not a Vanilla Forum owner? Create one here

JournalPress

Down in the last 7 days:72#15,659

by Alis2 years ago

A cross-poster supporting Dreamwidth and similar (i.e., LiveJournal-based) sites.

GatherPress

Down in the last 7 days:727#16,330

by GatherPress1 day ago

Build events, together. Open source event tools for the communities that run on WordPress.

Bit Connect

Up in the last 7 days:5,239#17,033

by Bit Apps10 days ago

Build a community, forum, feedback portal and public roadmap with posts, profiles, votes, discussions, notifications and moderation.

Wbcom Designs

Up in the last 7 days:76#17,523

by wbcomdesigns5 days ago

Let members post activity updates from any page. Add the Post From Anywhere block or the [bppfa_postform] shortcode where you want the form.

Display your Zenodo Publications

Down in the last 7 days:33#17,944

by yoannspace4 years ago

This WordPress plugin allows users to see their Zenodo publications (either from a Community or related to their ORCID).

Ruhler Community Resource Directory

Up in the last 7 days:72#18,884

by ruhler16 days ago

Manage locations, hours, and services from wp-admin, and publish an accessible directory with search, an optional map, and Near Me. No API key.

Wbcom Designs

Down in the last 7 days:1,195#19,658

by wbcomdesigns5 days ago

Let members review and rate BuddyPress groups across your own criteria, with moderation, a top-groups leaderboard, and SEO-ready rating markup.

MegaCalendar

Down in the last 7 days:279#19,873

by megabase20 days ago

A flexible calendar and event list for communities, businesses and organizations.

Sharing Club

Up in the last 7 days:18#20,112

by netdelight3 years ago

Share books, dvd, tools, toys or any object with your community. Your users can easily lend, borrow and rate items and you know who borrowed what.

Init Chat Engine

#21,773

by Init HTML1 month ago

A lightweight, real-time community chat system built with REST API and Vanilla JS. No jQuery, no reload. Full admin panel with moderation tools.

NarraFirma

Down in the last 7 days:324#22,148

by cfkurtz4 months ago

Participatory Narrative Inquiry in a box. Gather stories and make sense of challenges and opportunities in your community or organization.

Maven Member

Down in the last 7 days:63#22,438

by mustela13 years ago

Maven Member™ lets you protect pages, posts and categories using flexible roles that you can define.

Partyline

Down in the last 7 days:421#22,949

by Broadstreet3 months ago

Local news is the original social media. Let your community share and tell its side of the story with Partyline.

ZenCommunity

Up in the last 7 days:1,486#23,335

by Kodezen LLC13 days ago

Build a modern online community in WordPress: spaces, social feeds, discussion forum, events, polls, member profiles, chat and support tickets.

Community Events

Up in the last 7 days:25#23,842

by Yannick Lefebvre14 days ago

The purpose of this plugin is to allow users to create a schedule of upcoming events and display events for the next 7 days in an AJAX-driven box or d …

Connect Ultimate Member to Discord

Down in the last 7 days:317#23,872

by expresstechsoftware1 year ago

Create a community of your members by connecting your Ultimate Member Website to your Discord server.

LobbyChat

#24,428

by Asad Khalil4 months ago

A live, casual shoutbox for your community. Real-time messages, emoji reactions, link previews, moderator tools, optional AI bot.

BuddyPress Elevator Pitch

Up in the last 7 days:25#24,866

by SK8 years ago

Choose which fields appear on the "member cards" on member list pages, such as Groups.

Commons In A Box

Down in the last 7 days:76#25,094

by Boone Gorges3 months ago

A platform for easy and powerful community websites. Powered by BuddyPress.

Ultra Community

Down in the last 7 days:110#25,519

by ultraTeam6 years ago

Ultra Community is a powerful community plugin for WordPress that takes your site beyond the blog.

SpaceBay

Up in the last 7 days:16,448#26,622

by WPAnchorBay7 days ago

Build a community on your own site: spaces, activity feed, group chat, events, member directory, points, badges and a leaderboard.

Invitations for Slack

Up in the last 7 days:346#27,874

by rheinardkorf10 years ago

Build a Slack community by allowing your visitors (or registered users) to invite themselves to your Slack team.

Intercessor

Up in the last 7 days:1,512#29,112

by Victor Aigbeghian15 days ago

Effective prayer request management on WordPress.

BuddyPress Private Community

Up in the last 7 days:243#29,303

by NipponMonkey15 years ago

This plugin makes your BuddyPress community private. Only logged in members can view the social areas in full. You can configure the default settings.

Members Category

#29,434

by Sabaoh14 years ago

Members Category is an add-in for WP-Members™ plugin that restricts specified categories to registered users.