PeerBoard

PeerBoard is a powerful modern community platform that enables embedded and fully white-labeled communities. With PeerBoard, both individuals and companies can build the community that their audience deserves. 
PeerBoard’s WordPress plugin was designed to help creators, companies, or organizations build a successful branded community. Our WordPress plugin allows any WordPress user to embed a fully functional online community platform with just a few clicks. 
Our plugin was designed to make community forum features accessible to any WordPress user, regardless of their level of previous website design experience. The entire plugin installation process and integration with your website takes just a few minutes, and requires no coding or technical knowledge. 
If you do need any help, feel free to reach out to our team of support specialists. We are proud to support our users with free customer support!
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Benefits of Having a Forum on WordPress Website:
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<li>Connect With Your Customers: Stand out from the competition by talking, helping, and building personal and lasting relationships with your customers.</li>
<li>Retain Your Members Long-Term: Foster the kind of valuable networks and strong connections between your members that keep them coming back.</li>
<li>Generate Leads and Improve SEO with User Generated Content: Create a place where your users can share their own posts and read other people’s content. Search engines love question and answer search phrases. PeerBoard’s online community solution will draw prospects to your community from search engines. This will lead to increased dwell time, one of the factors that influences your website ranking on Google.</li>
<li>Get Feedback: A customer community provides constant feedback on what makes customers happy and where their biggest pain points lie allowing you to improve product and processes.</li>
<li>Create Advocates: Your community can help you identify, develop and reward advocates. PeerBoard’s native reputation lets you reward positive participation and provide advocates with the recognition they deserve.</li>
<li>Increase Loyalty: A social bond and sharing of best practices will increase the value of your products and services. A branded community forum can drive repeat sales and lower churn. PeerBoard’s notification system and deep integration to your website keep customers coming back.</li>
<li>Simplify Community Management: Consolidate your forums, ideation tools, Google Groups and other discussion platforms. PeerBoard makes it easy to create and manage multiple online communities across departments or product lines. Make your life easier by deploying one solution across the organization. </li>
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Main Plugin Features:
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<li>Member Groups: Build subgroups, manage access, reward members with badges, and more. Automate any of your group management with our API or Zapier.</li>
<li>User Profiles: Now every customer can showcase their expertise and the best content they created. Reward their contributions with badges and special privileges.</li>
<li>Public or Private Spaces: Keep the community public or private and make it easy for members to use existing accounts. Accessibility settings make the community public or private. Use registration rules to enable members with an invitation to join.</li>
<li>Powerful Built-In Tools: From rich user profiles to an intelligent newsfeed, PeerBoard provides users with powerful tools allowing them to create and scale their online community.</li>
<li>Customization: PeerBoard is a premium, white-label community experience. Your community, your branding. Choose your own brand colors, add a custom domain, and own 100% of your member data.</li>
<li>Language Support: Break the language barrier between you and your audience and host your community in one of the 15 languages supported by PeerBoard: English, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, traditional or simplified Chinese.</li>
<li>No code integration: Embed the PeerBoard Plugin in your WordPress website, without coding or complex integrations.</li>
<li>Real-time threads: Facilitate valuable in-depth conversations with multi-level discussions.</li>
<li>Moderation Tools: Keep your members safe, and secure your brand reputation. PeerBoard helps you ensure that the community is free from spam, abuse, and harmful language.</li>
<li>Intelligent feed: Our algorithm keeps members hooked with personalized, rich, and contextual content driven by members’ participation in groups, categories, and selected preferences.</li>
<li>And much more: Real-time updates, a versatile admin panel and a full suite of powerful features.</li>
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<h3>PeerBoard Use Cases:</h3>
1. Professional Communities 
A community is a great way to encourage social collaboration among employees or members of an organization. PeerBoard lets your employees have coherent and meaningful conversations within a private community.
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<li>Collaborate: Let employees across departments, locations or time zones have meaningful discussions without creating constant distractions.</li>
<li>Share Knowledge: Foster the kind of valuable networks and strong connections between your members that keep them coming back.</li>
<li>Privacy Controls: Keep your community private and control access and permissions. Integrate to your access control system.</li>
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2. Private Social Networks 
Tired of using traditional social media tools to connect with users and fans? Build your own social networking platform on your own website with PeerBoard.
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<li>Break away from Facebook groups and Reddit forums: Building your own private social network allows you to deliver user-friendly content in a way that makes sense for your organization. Create an ad-free experience where your content doesn’t compete with other brands in user feeds and emails and where you have the flexibility to integrate with external services. Spend less time formatting posts for social media sites and more time building up your own online community.</li>
<li>Control your own data: Big social networking sites require phone numbers, emails, and other personal information at signup. But marketers and advertisers working on the platform don’t get to see any of that. Users also may not want to share it in the first place. Whether you’re building a community forum or trying to control your brand, building a private social network allows you to determine what data you collect, why it matters, and who you share it with.</li>
<li>Perfect for every niche: Social media platforms are great at connecting users, but they’re a standardized solution meant to fill every niche. With PeerBoard, you can customize the look, style, and scale of your forum so that messaging is clear and precise — without off-brand advertisement and algorithms getting in the way of a great user experience.</li>
</ul>
3. Product Communities 
Gather community insights that improve functionality and interest for your products and services.
<ul>
<li>Get critical feedback during product development: Customer feedback is a critical element of product development. Project stakeholders use it to gauge interest. Team members use it to add features, tweak designs, and determine how to talk about products with customers. Your product forum can serve as a communication platform to help you gain knowledge and improve your products.</li>
<li>Crowdsource ideas and create customer advocates: Customers are more likely to engage with your products when they help build them. Using PeerBoard, you can crowdsource ideas, solicit feedback, answer questions, and more. By adding customer feedback to your product development roadmaps and incorporating valuable ideas into your building a more complete solution that your general audience can use.</li>
<li>Improve your knowledge base: Whether your product is about to launch or has been on the shelf for years, you can always improve usability through support and knowledge. A community platform can serve as a support tool, allowing users to troubleshoot issues, consult support documentation, create user-generated guides and tutorials, and work together to solve their own problems.</li>
</ul>
<h3>PeerBoard vs. Legacy Forum or User Management Plugins</h3>
Unlike legacy plugins like bbPress and BuddyPress, which can be difficult to set up and customize, PeerBoard offers a modern experience that helps you deliver maximum value to your members.
<h3>Translations</h3>
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<li>English – default, always included</li>
<li>Russian – ru_RU</li>
</ul>

PeerBoard Forum and Community

This WordPress forum plugin brings everything you need to build an online community, connect with your customers, and grow without a headache.

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Forumax is the ultimate standalone community forum solution for WordPress. Designed for forum administrators, content creators, and community managers, Forumax provides a complete suite of powerful features to create professional, engaging forums with minimal effort—no external forum dependencies required.
<h3>What is Forumax?</h3>
Forumax provides a complete, self-contained platform for building support forums, knowledge bases, or discussion communities. It includes everything you need to foster engagement, manage content effectively, and create an exceptional user experience right out of the box.
<h3>Key Features of Forumax</h3>
🎯 Unified Forum Builder 
Take complete control of your forums with our intuitive, built-in builder. View all forums and topics in one organized dashboard, filter by status (open, closed, pending, spam), and manage discussions efficiently without navigating multiple pages.
🔐 Private & Confidential Replies 
Enable users to post private responses visible only to forum owners and moderators. Perfect for sensitive discussions, support tickets, and confidential advice while maintaining full transparency where needed.
✅ Solved Topics System 
Help community members quickly identify answered questions. Mark topics as solved to display a prominent ‘Resolved’ badge, reducing duplicate questions and improving user experience. Visitors instantly know which topics have solutions.
⭐ Smart Voting & Reputation System 
Empower your community with a built-in AJAX-powered voting system. Users vote on the most helpful replies, automatically elevating quality answers to the top. Build reputation-based authority and encourage quality contributions.
📎 Media Attachments & File Sharing 
Allow users to attach files, documents, images, and media directly to replies. Organized attachment sections make it easy for community members to share resources, code snippets, documents, and collaborate effectively.
💡 Advanced Forum Statistics Widget 
Display real-time forum information including topic count, reply count, last activity, and most active users. The ‘Current Forum Info’ widget provides visitors with a quick overview of forum vitality and engagement.
🎨 Elementor Page Builder Integration 
Create stunning forum layouts using Elementor’s drag-and-drop builder. Use specialized Forumax widgets to display forums, topics, and replies on any page with full customization control. No coding required.
⚡ Lightweight & Performance-Optimized 
Forumax is built for speed. It loads assets intelligently—CSS and JavaScript only when needed. Minimal footprint ensures your forum runs fast without bloat.
🔧 Intuitive Admin Interface 
Create, edit, and delete forums and topics directly from the Forumax admin dashboard. Streamlined interface eliminates confusion and reduces admin overhead.
<h3>Free Features:</h3>
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Live Customizer – Instantly preview and customize forum styles with real-time visual controls.
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Pre-made Templates – Start quickly using professionally designed forum templates for common use cases.
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Unified Forum Builder – Build and manage forums, topics, and layouts from one centralized builder.
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Voting on Topics & Replies – Allow users to upvote or downvote topics and replies for engagement.
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Solved Topic – Mark topics as solved to highlight correct answers and improve usability.
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Frontend Brand Color Option – Customize forum brand colors directly from frontend settings easily.
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Who Can Upload Files – Control user roles and permissions for uploading files in forums.
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Pagination in Forum Builder – Manage large forums efficiently with built-in pagination support.
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<h3>PRO Features – Everything You Need for Advanced Community Management:</h3>
Upgrade to Forumax Pro for enterprise-grade forum management:
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Real-Time Admin Notifications – Stay updated with instant dashboard alerts for new posts, moderation requests, and community activity.
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Smart User Notifications – Keep members engaged with real-time updates on subscribed forums, topics, and replies they care about.
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Mini User Profiles – Display compact user profile cards with activity summaries, follower counts, and quick-view reputation.
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Pre-Built Elementor Templates – Import professional forum layouts with one click. Fully customizable templates for forums, knowledge bases, and support centers.
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“I’ve the Same Question” Feature – Reduce duplicate threads by letting users indicate similar questions, improving forum organization.
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Anonymous Posting – Allow sensitive discussions without revealing user identity. Ideal for support forums and confidential advice.
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Dynamic User Profile Links – Generate personalized profile URLs for logged-in users. Perfect for user bios and contributor pages.
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Topic Approval Workflow – Control content quality with admin-approval for new topics. Prevent spam and maintain forum standards.
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Advanced File Management – Support multiple file uploads with increased size limits. Delete attachments independently or with content.
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Powerful Voting Controls – Guest voting restrictions, prevent closed-topic voting, disable self-voting, admin voting privileges, and vote-based sorting.
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External Image Insertion – Insert images via URL or media library picker. Enhance replies with visual content effortlessly.
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Auto-Approval System – Automatically publish reply replies instantly. Streamline moderation workflows and maintain conversation flow.
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Attachment Moderation – Approve/unapprove replies containing files for enhanced content security and compliance control.
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<h3>Promax Features:</h3>
Reply Timeline Navigation 
Automatically loads more replies when users scroll down. A reply timeline is visible beside the replies to help users follow long discussions easily.
Live Chat 
Adds a private real-time chat system. A chat icon is visible on the right side of the site to open the chat box. Admins can set default assistants from the settings. Users can chat with the assistant or with forum participants. Messages support likes, replies, emojis, and file or video sharing. Chat can also be started by hovering over forum, topic, or reply users.
Emoji for Topics and Replies 
Allows users to add expressive emojis to forum topics and replies, making conversations more engaging, emotional, and easier to understand.
Real-Time Alerts 
Displays instant notifications when new topics are published or existing discussions are updated, keeping users informed without refreshing the page.
Social Login 
Allow users to sign up and log in instantly using Google, Facebook, or Twitter, reducing friction and increasing overall registration conversion rates.
Analytics 
Get powerful insights into forum performance with real-time statistics, activity trends, user engagement metrics, and resolution data—all presented in a clear, actionable dashboard view.
<h3>AI Integration (via Our AI Plugin)</h3>
Forumax can be extended with powerful AI capabilities using the AI Tools, designed to automate support workflows, improve engagement, and transform forum discussions into valuable long-term content.
Important: AI features require the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/antimanual" rel="ugc">Antimanual AI Plugin</a> and an active AI provider connection.
<h3>AI-Powered Forum Replies</h3>
Instantly generate intelligent, context-aware replies to forum topics. Improve response time, reduce moderator workload, and maintain consistent support quality across your community.
Ideal for:
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<li>Support forums</li>
<li>Product discussions</li>
<li>Knowledge-sharing communities</li>
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<h3>Convert Solved Topics into Posts</h3>
Automatically convert resolved forum topics into structured WordPress posts.
Each generated post can include:
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<li>Problem summary</li>
<li>Accepted solution</li>
<li>Key insights and takeaways</li>
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This feature turns your forum into a living knowledge base while improving SEO and long-term content value.
<h3>Smarter Community Management</h3>
By combining Forumax core features with AI automation, moderators can:
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<li>Reduce repetitive replies</li>
<li>Scale support without increasing team size</li>
<li>Keep forums clean, searchable, and helpful</li>
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Forumax + AI transforms discussions into long-term assets.
<h3>Video Overview</h3>
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Note: We have renamed our plugin from BBP Core to Forumax. All features previously available in BBP Core are still here and fully supported.
Important: After updating to version 2.0.0, the plugin will be renamed to <code>forumax</code>. This may cause WordPress to deactivate the plugin. If deactivated, please simply reactivate it.
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<h3>Important Links</h3>
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<li><a href="https://forumax.spider-themes.net/pricing" rel="nofollow ugc"> Get Pro Version</a></li>
<li><a href="https://forumax.spider-themes.net/creative-helpdesk" rel="nofollow ugc"> Live Demo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://helpdesk.spider-themes.net/docs/forumax-wordpress-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc"> Full Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://forumax.spider-themes.net" rel="nofollow ugc"> Learn More</a></li>
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<h3>WHAT’S NEXT?</h3>
If you like Forumax, then consider checking out our other WordPress Plugins:
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/eazydocs" rel="ugc">EazyDocs</a> – Powerful knowledge base plugin to easily create and manage professional documentation, wikis, and helpdesk sections.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/antimanual" rel="ugc">Antimanual</a> – AI-powered assistant that automates content creation, documentation, and support, transforming static sites into dynamic experiences.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-accordion-block" rel="ugc">Advanced Accordion Block</a> – Lightweight Gutenberg block for creating visually appealing, organized accordion sections with extensive styling options.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/changeloger" rel="ugc">Changeloger</a> – Transform plain text changelogs into visually stunning, organized representations with pagination and version links.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jobus" rel="ugc">Jobus</a> – Comprehensive job board solution transforming your site into a recruitment platform with dashboards and ATS.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/spider-elements" rel="ugc">Spider Elements</a> – Versatile library of 20+ creative widgets to enhance Elementor and build professional websites.
<h3>Why Choose Forumax?</h3>
The Trusted Choice for Communities
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<li>1000+ Active Users: Join thousands of community managers using Forumax</li>
<li>Actively Maintained: Regular updates with new features and security patches</li>
<li>Security First: Built with WordPress security best practices</li>
<li>Scalable Solution: Handles small communities to large enterprise forums</li>
<li>Beginner-Friendly: Intuitive UI requires no technical knowledge</li>
<li>Expert Support: Responsive team ready to help you succeed</li>
<li>Open Source: Community contributions welcome on GitHub</li>
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<h3>Ready to Transform Your Forum?</h3>
Start with Forumax Free today and upgrade to Pro when you’re ready for advanced features.
<a href="https://forumax.spider-themes.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Get Started →</a> | <a href="https://forumax.spider-themes.net/pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">View Pricing →</a> | <a href="https://helpdesk.spider-themes.net/docs/forumax-wordpress-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Read Documentation →</a>
<h3>Support & Community</h3>
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<li><a href="https://helpdesk.spider-themes.net/docs/forumax-wordpress-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Complete Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/spider-themes/forumax/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">Report Issues & Suggest Features</a></li>
<li><a href="https://forumax.spider-themes.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Visit Official Website</a></li>
<li>Contact: spiderthemes247@gmail.com</li>
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Forumax – AI Powered Advanced Community Forum Plugin

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