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Huddlespot lets you add a full-featured community platform to your WordPress site in minutes. It’s built for creators, companies, and organizations who want to bring their audience together in one place — on their own terms.
No shortcodes. No coding. No headaches. Just install, configure a few settings, and you’re up and running.
<h4>Why build a community?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Talk to your customers directly. Build real relationships instead of shouting into the void.</li>
<li>Keep members coming back. People stick around when they form connections with each other.</li>
<li>Boost your SEO. User-generated Q&A content is exactly what search engines love.</li>
<li>Get honest feedback. Learn what’s working and what’s not, straight from the people who matter.</li>
<li>Find your biggest fans. Identify and reward the advocates who champion your brand.</li>
<li>One place for everything. Stop juggling Google Groups, Facebook groups, and random forums.</li>
</ul>
<h4>What you get</h4>
<ul>
<li>Groups and spaces — public or private, with fine-grained access control</li>
<li>Rich user profiles — let members showcase their expertise and contributions</li>
<li>Threaded discussions — real-time, multi-level conversations</li>
<li>Smart feed — personalized content based on each member’s interests and activity</li>
<li>Moderation tools — keep things safe and on-brand</li>
<li>Full white-label — your colors, your logo, your domain, your data</li>
<li>Admin panel — manage members, roles, badges, and permissions from one place</li>
</ul>
<h4>Who it’s for</h4>
Teams and organizations — Give employees a space to collaborate across departments and time zones, without the noise of chat tools.
Creators and brands — Stop renting space on social platforms. Own your audience, your data, and your experience.
Product teams — Gather feedback, crowdsource ideas, and build a living knowledge base around your product.
<h4>How it compares</h4>
If you’ve tried bbPress or BuddyPress, you know the setup can be painful. Huddlespot is a modern alternative — easier to install, easier to customize, and designed to look great out of the box.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the following third-party services:
<h4>Huddlespot</h4>
The plugin communicates with <a href="https://huddlespot.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Huddlespot</a> to power the community platform embedded on your site.
<ul>
<li>Community interface is loaded from <code>https://app.huddlespot.io</code> via a JavaScript SDK</li>
<li>API calls are made to <code>https://app.huddlespot.io/api/v1/</code> for settings, user synchronization, and community management</li>
<li>Sitemap data is fetched from <code>https://huddlespot.io</code> for SEO purposes</li>
</ul>
A Huddlespot account and community ID are required. <a href="https://huddlespot.io/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://huddlespot.io/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>
<h4>Sentry</h4>
The plugin uses <a href="https://sentry.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Sentry</a> for error reporting and monitoring. Only error and exception details are transmitted to help diagnose issues — no personal user data is intentionally sent.
<a href="https://sentry.io/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Sentry Privacy Policy</a>

Huddlespot Community

Build a branded online community right inside your WordPress site — no coding required.

itthinx

Decent Comments shows what people say.
The Decent Comments plugin helps you show comments on your site in a neat way. It lets you display comments along with avatars of the people who wrote them and previews of what they said. This makes your site more engaging for visitors.
If you want to show comments along with their author’s avatars and an excerpt of their comment, recent comments on any of your posts, posts from certain categories and other criteria … then this might just be the right plugin for you.
The plugin provides configurable blocks, widgets, shortcodes and an API to display comments in sensible ways. This includes author avatars, links, comment excerpts …
Anywhere you place comments, by means of its block, widget, shortcode or by using its API, you can:
<ul>
<li>Show an excerpt or the full comment. You can choose to not show the comment as well.</li>
<li>Determine the number of words shown for excerpts.</li>
<li>Set your kind of ellipsis.</li>
<li>Set the number of comments to show.</li>
<li>Show the author’s avatar and determine its size.</li>
<li>Sort by author email, author URL, content (what’s said in the comment), date, karma or post … in ascending or descending order.</li>
<li>Show comments for the current post or for a specific post.</li>
<li>Show comments for a specific post type.</li>
<li>Show comments for posts in specific categories, for specific tags, … (more precisely: the ability to show comments from posts related to one or more terms in a chosen taxonomy).</li>
<li>Show comments for a set of posts and/or excluding a set of posts.</li>
<li>and more to come … got suggestions?</li>
</ul>
Visit the <a href="https://docs.itthinx.com/document/decent-comments" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> pages for details.
Feedback is welcome. If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please do so at the <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/plugins/decent-comments" rel="nofollow ugc">Decent Comments</a> plugin page.
Please try to solve problems there before you rate this plugin or say it doesn’t work. There goes a lot of work into providing you with free quality plugins! Please appreciate that and help with your feedback. Thanks!
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Translations
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<li>Catalan translation provided by <a href="https://www.ibidemgroup.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ibidem Group</a></li>
<li>Chinese translation provided by Francesco from <a href="https://www.in-cina.com" rel="nofollow ugc">in Cina</a></li>
<li>French translation provided by Thomas Mur from <a href="https://www.creapage.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Creapage.net</a></li>
<li>German translation provided by the author <a href="https://www.itthinx.com" rel="nofollow ugc">itthinx</a></li>
<li>Italian translation provided by Francesco from <a href="https://www.in-cina.com" rel="nofollow ugc">in Cina</a></li>
<li>Lithuanian translation provided by Vincent G from <a href="https://www.Host1Free.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Host1Free</a></li>
<li>Portuguese translation provided by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/profile/topcasinowagering" rel="ugc">TopCasinoWagering</a></li>
<li>Russion translation provided by <a href="https://arahis.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Igor</a></li>
<li>Spanish translation provided by <a href="https://www.itthinx.com" rel="nofollow ugc">itthinx</a> and <a href="https://www.ibidem-translations.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ibidem Translations</a></li>
</ul>
Many thanks!

Decent Comments

Thank you

Decent Comments shows what people say. A more engaging way to show comments.

Huddlespot Community vs Decent Comments