BuddyBoss Features
Build a community where people feel connected
ACTIVITY FEEDS
Activity feeds that feel alive
Keep members engaged with a personalized activity feed
Give members a familiar social space to share updates, discover conversations, and stay connected with the people and communities that matter most.
- Personalized feed: only posts that matter
- Pinned posts: keep key posts on top
- Scheduled posts: write now, publish later
- Polls: ask, vote, decide
- Activity topics: organize the feed
- Threaded comments: replies stay organized
- Auto refresh: never miss a post
- Post sharing: share anywhere, even WhatsApp
SOCIAL GROUPS
Big community, small groups
Bring members together in social groups: public, private, or hidden
Create dedicated spaces where members connect around shared interests, collaborate, share content, and build stronger communities.
- Group privacy: control who sees and joins
- Group feed: every group gets its own
- Roles & permissions: decide who posts and invites
- Group types: schools, cohorts, clubs, each badge-coded
- Zoom meetings: schedule and sync inside groups
- Group messages: reach every member at once
FORUM DISCUSSIONS
Discussions worth keeping
Create organized discussion spaces where members can ask questions, share knowledge, exchange ideas, and build a searchable knowledge base through meaningful conversations.
PRIVATE MESSAGING
Say more with a message
Keep conversations inside your community with private one-to-one and group messaging. Share photos, videos, audio, and files while giving you full control over who can message whom.
MEMBER PROFILES
Every member, more than a username
Give every member a rich profile, with the fields you define and privacy down to every field
Members join for the content and stay for the people. Profiles turn a user list into a community: faces, stories, things in common, all on a WordPress site you own.
- Profile fields: custom field types, no code
- Profile types: unique fields & permissions per type
- Member directory: searchable grid & list views
- Advanced profile search: filter by the fields you choose
- Member connections: connect, follow & message
- WordPress roles: auto-assigned per profile type
- Avatars & covers: branded defaults, member uploads
LIKE & REACTIONS
Reactions beyond the like button
Encourage everyday engagement with customizable emoji reactions across activity posts, comments, blog posts, and private messages. Choose a simple Like button or up to six emotions to make every interaction more expressive.
NOTIFICATIONS
Notifications, never noise
Keep members engaged with personalized notifications across email, web push, and on-screen alerts. Deliver mentions, replies, and invites while letting members choose how and when they stay informed.
MEDIA UPLOADS
Share every media type
Media types
Support photos, videos, audio, documents, and more, giving members more ways to share.
Media albums
Organize photos and videos into albums, making media easier to upload, browse, and manage.
Upload permissions
Control who can upload media with flexible permissions based on roles, profiles, or community settings.
File type control
Choose which file formats members can upload to maintain content quality and community security.
GAMIFICATIONS
Gamify your community
Reward the behavior you want: community gamification built into WordPress
Keep members motivated with points, badges, ranks, and achievements that reward participation, recognize contributions, and encourage long-term community engagement.
- Points: reward the actions you choose
- Ranks: levels members climb
- Content unlocks: courses & hidden groups, per rank
- Achievements: badges for any milestone
- Leaderboards: by point type & timeframe
- Profile badges: progress on display everywhere
- Awards page: the community trophy case
MODERATION
Automated moderation tools for your community
Keep your community safe and welcoming with powerful moderation tools that help manage content, reduce spam, and maintain healthy member interactions.
- Member blocking: hide anyone, everywhere
- Content reporting: posts, photos, forums & more
- Reporting categories: define what’s reportable
- Auto-hide: content hides after enough reports
- Auto suspend: repeat offenders, handled automatically
- Reported content: review, hide, or restore
OFFLOAD MEDIA
Store media files on external storage
Reduce server storage and improve performance by offloading media files to cloud storage, ensuring faster loading times and a more scalable community.
- Global CDN: Cloudflare-fast, worldwide
- Custom domain: serve media from your own subdomain
- Bulk offload: move the library you already have
- Download back: pull everything back whenever you want
- Smart fallbacks: anything Cloudflare rejects is still kept
- Media types: pick which libraries are ever in scope
SEO SETTINGS
Built-in SEO tools
Improve your community’s visibility with built-in SEO settings that help search engines discover, index, and rank your content more effectively.
- SEO title & description: control your search snippet
- Open graph: rich previews when shared
- Activity title templates: dynamic tags per post
- Indexing controls: choose what Google sees
- Clean permalinks: custom slugs site-wide
MEMBER BLOGGING
Your community members write the blog
The content you never have to write. Members turn what they know into real articles, and every published post is one more indexable page of user-generated content working for your site.
- Blog creator: write from the front end
- Block editor: text, images, galleries, video
- Admin approval: review before it’s live
- Writer permissions: who publishes, by role
- Bookmarks: save posts for later
- Scheduling: publish now or later
MOBILE APP
Get your own branded app
Launch a fully white-label native community app under your own App Store and Google Play developer accounts: your brand, your icon, your community.
- White-label publishing: your brand, your store
- Rebuilt on Flutter: up to 3× faster loads
- Light & dark mode: from day one
- In-app purchases: courses & memberships
- App blocks: native screens, no code
BUDDYBOSS COURSES
Power of native courses
A course page that behaves like the rest of your community
BuddyBoss Courses is native, and LearnDash, Tutor LMS, LifterLMS and MemberPress Courses all plug in. Either way the course sits beside the feed, the groups and the forums.
- Hover preview: see a course without leaving the directory
- Course header: what it is and who teaches it, in one block
- Lesson player: built for the lesson, not a plugin page
- Progress bar: the hero becomes a progress meter after enrolling
BuddyBoss Theme
Take full control of your community’s design with a premium BuddyBoss theme, customizing layouts, branding, typography, headers, and member-facing pages to match your brand.
ReadyLaunch
Launch your community faster with ReadyLaunch, featuring professionally designed templates, customizable layouts, branding options, beautiful widgets, and polished member-facing pages.
INTEGRATIONS
Integrations that take BuddyBoss to the next level
300+
Community modules built into one platform for every stage of your community journey
200+
Integrations with leading WordPress plugins and trusted third-party services
10+
Years of building community software trusted by WordPress creators and businesses
20,000+
Communities worldwide trust BuddyBoss to grow, engage, and retain their members
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