Aram Zucker-Scharff

Response Stack uses WordPress shortcodes to pull comments (and comment threads) into a post from other posts on the same site. Authors can use threaded comments and even pull comments from multiple other stories, based on the comment ID. To get the shortcode working type the following into its own line in your post:
<pre><code>[responser comment="id" thread="depth"] where `id` is equal to the integer ID of the comment and `depth` is equal to the integer depth of the thread of comments you want visible. 
</code></pre>
Readers looking at the comments can even respond to them within the shortcode’s post, submitting threaded replies that will then take them to the original conversation.
You can find the comment id by looking at the hyperlink attached to any comment datetime stamp (on the post or in the comments page of the dashboard), where it will be in the format of <code>http://site/post-link/#comment-CommentIDNumber</code>.
Response Stack assumes you are using default WordPress comments. Support for other commenting systems is to come. If you’d like to add support for your commenting system, contribute to the project <a href="https://github.com/CFOPublishing/response-stack/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>
Developed for <a href="http://cfo.com" rel="nofollow ugc">CFO Magazine</a>
Styling and format based on work with Human Made.
<pre><code>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA </code></pre>

Response Stack

Response stack engages with your community by bringing audience comments into your posts.

PeepSo, Inc.

EricTracz

Sinisa

Matt Jaworski

Introducing PeepSo: the sleek, social networking plugin. With PeepSo, you can seamlessly integrate a vibrant social network or community directly within your website — no heavy lifting required. Engineered for supreme efficiency and ease of use. On top of the free PeepSo Foundation, we also offer PeepSo Free Bundle – which includes few free plugins. PeepSo Ultimate Bundle – which comes with all premium plugins and theme. We also offer a white glove, white label <a href="https://www.peepso.com/app" rel="nofollow ugc">Mobile App</a> building service.
Social network for WordPress – in just a few clicks!
Why let other platforms lure your audience away with ads from competitors? Launch your own social hub with just a few clicks and transform casual visitors into a loyal community. They’ll come for the connections they make and stay for the unique features that enrich their experience. With PeepSo, draw visitors in and keep them returning for more!
<h3>PEEPSO FREE BUNDLE</h3>
Our PeepSo Free Bundle, designed to set any community to an amazing start. It is truly and completely FREE and at your disposal! When we say it’s free, it’s actually free. No signup. No credit card. No hassle.
Check out what you get in PeepSo Free Bundle on top of all the features that PeepSo Foundation has to offer:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/get-free-peepso/#photos" rel="nofollow ugc">Photos</a> – Upload photos and create photo albums.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/get-free-peepso/#videos" rel="nofollow ugc">Audio & Video</a> – Share video links from a multitude of supported providers with a theater view. Live stream videos from YouTube and others.</li>
<li>Widgets – Feature Hashtags, recent Photos and Videos and more, wherever you wish within your community.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/get-free-peepso/#gecko" rel="nofollow ugc">PeepSo Theme: Gecko</a> – Create an amazing-looking community effortlessly. Our theme is fully included in every single bundle we have on offer. If you want to use PeepSo plugins with any other theme, feel free to do so! Gecko Theme is not required to run PeepSo plugins.</li>
</ul>
To get PeepSo Free Bundle, make sure PeepSo is installed and activated. Then go to the backend of your site, PeepSo, Installer and simply activate the PeepSo Free Bundle. That’s it. You can learn more about <a href="https://www.peepso.com/get-free-peepso/" rel="nofollow ugc">PeepSo Free Bundle here</a>.
Our primary goal in development of this social networking plugin for WordPress is to provide those who want to create a community with WordPress a superior alternative to the existing solutions, with a modern and intuitive look and feel, lots of great features and scalability.
What sets <a href="https://peepso.com/" title="PeepSo - Social Network Plugin for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">PeepSo</a> apart from other social networking solutions is its lightness, practicality and stellar design. PeepSo works right out of the box, enabling you to start a full social network inside your WordPress site. There’s no need to hire a developer, mess with code, or hack another plugin to make it look and work the way you want it. It simply works.
Some of the features that PeepSo Foundation plugin offers are:
<ul>
<li>Frontend user profiles with avatars and cover images</li>
<li>Frontend user registration</li>
<li>Frontend user login</li>
<li>Frontend user listing with search and filtering</li>
<li>User profiles</li>
<li>User Hover cards</li>
<li>Hashtags</li>
<li>User can create their own posts</li>
<li>Followers system – users can follow each other</li>
<li>Unique Views counter on user posts</li>
<li>Custom Reactions on user posts </li>
<li>Scheduled Posts that are published at specified time and date</li>
<li>Customizable Profile Fields with multiple/single select, date, text, country, social and more…</li>
<li>Blog Posts integration with comments and reactions </li>
<li>Activity Stream of the entire community</li>
<li>Activity Stream filtering by: all community posts, following, saved posts, scheduled posts</li>
<li>Activity Stream for user profiles</li>
<li>Activity Stream filtering for showing / hiding own posts</li>
<li>Activity Stream sorting posts by latest posts or recently commented posts</li>
<li>Users can post poll questions for others to vote on</li>
<li>Users can save posts, use that feature as Favorite list</li>
<li>Search in Activity Stream Posts</li>
<li>Users can share their status updates with different privacy settings</li>
<li>Real time onsite user notifications</li>
<li>User email notifications</li>
<li>Email Digest notification system </li>
<li>Notification previews</li>
<li>Dedicated user roles</li>
<li>External links redirect warning</li>
<li>Markdown support in Posts, Comments and user Profile Fields</li>
<li>Built-in security including brute force protection</li>
<li>Nested Comments under user posts within your community</li>
<li>Built-in wordfilter – censor any kind of unwanted language from posts, comments and chat</li>
<li>Pinned Posts – these are great for making announcements</li>
<li>Built-in GIPHY integration. Users can use gifs in posts, comments and chat</li>
<li>Assign custom badges to users based on your preference, LearnDash integration or membership level (PMP Integration)</li>
<li>Post and Comment edit history indication</li>
<li>PeepSo Profile widget with real time notifications</li>
<li>PeepSo Online Members widget showing who’s online</li>
<li>PeepSo Latest Members widget showing latest members</li>
<li>PeepSo Hashtags widget showing tag cloud of the most used hashtags in posts throughout the entire community</li>
<li>PeepSo UserBar Widget showing user navigation and notifications anywhere on your site</li>
<li>Coherent configuration</li>
<li>Dashboard with an Overview of your Community</li>
<li>RTL support</li>
<li>Built-in community SEO & OG configuration</li>
<li>Ability to share user profiles on other networks like: Facebook, Twitter etc.</li>
<li>Ability to share user posts on other networks like: Facebook, Twitter etc.</li>
<li>Built-in GDPR Compliance Settings</li>
<li>Easy assets, css, template overrides </li>
<li>Location for Posts and profiles</li>
<li>Tagging users in posts and comments</li>
<li>Moods for posts</li>
<li>And many, many more…</li>
</ul>
Read all about PeepSo features here: <a href="https://www.peepso.com/foundation/" rel="nofollow ugc">PeepSo.com</a>
On top of all the previously mentioned features you’ll also get:
<ul>
<li>Stability – it is rock solid! You can sleep well and not worry about anything.</li>
<li>Upgrades will never break anything on your site.</li>
<li>Works out of the box – 1st time. Everytime. Period.</li>
<li>Lots of Features – and PeepSo is free. Forever.</li>
<li>Always ahead of the curve. We’re ready to support latest WP, PHP, MySQL and more.</li>
<li>Fanatical Support – Yes. We proudly and dilligently support our plugins. No, you don’t have to pay for support. It’s included.</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/peepso-core/" title="PeepSo - Social Network Plugin for WordPress" rel="ugc">PeepSo</a> is totally free. Install it and see how it works! PeepSo has a range of extensions that allow you to fully empower Your Community.
<h3>— PeepSo Paid Bundle —</h3>
Our bundles are tailored to fit every type of community and make it shine. Whether it’s socialising, business, or both – we got you covered.
<h3>PeepSo Ultimate Bundle • TAKE YOUR COMMUNITY TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#chat" rel="nofollow ugc">Chat</a> – Live chat and messages between two or more users.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#friends" rel="nofollow ugc">Friends</a> – Friend connections and “friends” privacy level on posts. Automatically create friend connections.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#groups" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups</a> – Open, closed and secret groups as well as announcement (read only) groups.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#photos" rel="nofollow ugc">Photos</a> – Upload photos and create photo albums.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#audiovideo" rel="nofollow ugc">Audio & Video</a> – Upload Video and Audio files or share links from supported providers. Live stream videos from YouTube and other supported providers.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#emaildigest" rel="nofollow ugc">Email Digest</a> – Keep bringing users back with automated newsletter that contains summary of the most relevant content from your community.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#userlimits" rel="nofollow ugc">User Limits</a> – Decide which users have access to which features, based on their User Role or profile completeness.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#badgeos" rel="nofollow ugc">BadgeOS</a> – Gamification system for community engagement – reward your users with points and achievements.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#mycred" rel="nofollow ugc">myCRED</a> – Points for community engagement – reward your users with points within myCRED.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#sociallogin" rel="nofollow ugc">Social Login & Invitations</a> – Social login options for users, plus a social invitations system for other people to join.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/#" rel="nofollow ugc">MasterStudy LMS</a> – Everything you need to get your e-learning business going in no time.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#learndash" rel="nofollow ugc">LearnDash</a> – Monetize Your Community with online courses.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#tutorlms" rel="nofollow ugc">TutorLMS</a> – Beautiful Online courses for Your Community.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#fileuploads" rel="nofollow ugc">File Uploads</a> – File sharing within profiles, groups, chat and more.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#adv" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Ads</a> – Targeted ads based on user profiles, group membership, roles and more.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#wpadverts" rel="nofollow ugc">WPAdverts</a> – Monetize your community with classified ads.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#pmp" rel="nofollow ugc">Paid Memberships Pro</a> – Paid memberships for exclusive community experience.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#woo" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce, Dokan and Product Vendors</a> – Create a community behind your brand and get social proof. Includes integration with WooCommerce Product Vendors and Dokan.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features" rel="nofollow ugc">GiveWP</a> – Collect all kind of donations at your website.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#edd" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy Digital Downloads</a> – Monetizing your community with digital goods has never been easier.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#wpem" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Events Manager</a> – Let your community create, attend and manage events.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#wpjm" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Job Manager</a> – Job Board integration for your community.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#awedesk" rel="nofollow ugc">Awedesk</a> – Customer Service Solution Your Community Deserves.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#ideapush" rel="nofollow ugc">IdeaPush</a> – Gather feedback from your community members.</li>
<li>Early Access – Ultimate Bundle subscribers get access to features sooner than anyone else.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#gecko" rel="nofollow ugc">PeepSo Theme: Gecko</a> – Create an amazing-looking community effortlessly. Our theme is included in every single bundle we have on offer. If you want to use PeepSo plugins with any other theme, feel free to do so! Gecko Theme is not required to run PeepSo plugins.</li>
<li>
Access to our Exclusive <a href="https://peepso.com/community" title="PeepSo Community" rel="nofollow ugc">Community</a>.
</li>
<li>
Find out more about your options <a href="https://www.peepso.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>— 📱 PeepSo Mobile App —</h3>
PeepSo is also offering to make Your Community Mobile. Right now you can have Your PeepSo Community turned into a mobile app with all the bells and whistles. Push notifications included. There’s no need to use any 3rd party services anymore to get the most out of Your Community. You can read more about it here:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.peepso.com/app" rel="nofollow ugc">PeepSo App</a> – Mobile App for Your Community. Your Branding. Your Way.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Languages</h4>
We offer translations for PeepSo that are maintained by volunteers, and depending on necessity they are checked and/or completed by professional translators. Translations are shipped with plugins and work out of the box for a number of languages. If you find your language is missing, you can contact us.
Currently supported languages: 
* English 
* français (French) 
* Nederlands (Dutch) 
* Deutsch (German) 
* español (Spanish) 
* српски (Serbian) 
* Esperanto 
* português (Portuguese) 
* svenska (Swedish) 
* 汉语 (Chinese Simplified) 
* italiano (Italian) 
* 日本語 (Japanese) 
* فارسی (Persian – Farsi) 
* And others will come soon too.
<h3>Try the demo</h3>
If you want to see how social networking on WordPress looks live, you can visit our <a href="https://demo.peepso.com" rel="nofollow ugc">demo site</a>. You will be able to log in as a real user (username: demo, password: demo) and take PeepSo for a test drive. The demo includes most of the premium plugins so you’ll be able to see them in action. Some like Email Digest, however, cannot conform to demo environment.
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
PeepSo automatically generates pages for you with shortcodes to allow you to start fast. 
Here is the list of pages and shortcodes available. Use the shortcodes to display the content in case you’ve deleted the automatically generated page.
<ul>
<li>User Profile – [peepso_profile]</li>
<li>Recent Activity – [peepso_activity]</li>
<li>Members – [peepso_members]</li>
<li>Password Recovery – [peepso_recover]</li>
<li>Password Reset – [peepso_reset]</li>
<li>Site Registration- [peepso_register]</li>
<li>External Link Warning – [peepso_external_link_warning]</li>
</ul>
<h3>Getting Started</h3>
To get a social network on your WordPress site up and running, follow these steps:
<ul>
<li>Login to your WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li>Choose “Plugins”.</li>
<li>Click “Add new”.</li>
<li>Search for “PeepSo”.</li>
<li>Click “Install”.</li>
<li>Go to “Appearance -> Menus”</li>
<li>Select the menu you’d like to link to your social network.</li>
<li>Add the page “Recent Activity” to that menu</li>
<li>Save.</li>
</ul>
Your new social network will now be displayed on your site.
<h3>Developers</h3>
Check out our GitLab repository of our <a href="https://gitlab.com/PeepSo/Public/HelloWorld" rel="nofollow ugc">PeepSo Hello World Plugin</a>. It’s a great starting point for your own PeepSo plugins. It showcases how things connect and comes with well documented code.
<h3>PeepSo Theme: Gecko</h3>
The same team that created PeepSo and its plugins had also created the theme: Gecko. 
Relying on third party themes pushes everything out of our hands; no control over the actual display – not entirely anyway. So a proof of concept was created, and we’ve received amazing feedback from the community. With Gecko we have close to limitless possibilities to showcase PeepSo and its plugins in the most stunning way. You can get the theme here: <a href="https://www.peepso.com/features/#gecko" rel="nofollow ugc">PeepSo Theme: Gecko</a>. Gecko Theme is included in every single one of our bundles.
<h3>More Information</h3>
More plugins are currently being developed to extend PeepSo’s functionality. To get your desired plugin, see our <a href="https://www.peepso.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">PeepSo Pricing Page</a>.

Community by PeepSo – Social Network, Membership, Registration, User Profiles, Premium – Mobile App


I have used Peepso Ultimate Bundle for over 3 years on several sites. One of these was a previously established BuddyPress (horror) community before the move to Peepso... and having decided that we really needed to get rid of Peepso, the migration to another solution was a very big job. 



Just prior to Peepso version 3, they decided to pretty much force Gecko theme onto users. Unfortunately, Gecko and Peepso, in general, don't like the WordPress ecosystem and don't use the Customizer, preferring their own solutions instead. This is a truly awful decision as it resulted in hours of work.Known problems are discusses in the Peepso community (which BTW offers no simple way to delete yourself from it) and nearly always the response is... "we intend to fix this in a future version". But it seldom happens. Because of the way they chose to move away from WordPress standards before Version 3 (their own customizer etc), we determined to not update from that point on and continued to make required edits to the plugins ourselves. In doing so, we essentially forked Peepso and were able to remove huge amount of bloated code, override several poorly designed aspects, introduce mobile push notifications, create a mobile app, vastly impove the quality of the CSS and massively reduce unused JavaScript - all for free. 



Peepso has the potential to be a super platform BUT they absolutely must redesign their database storage usage, make the relationships between content types obvious and easy to follow, store activity comments as WP comments, use the WordPress Customizer for Gecko Theme and Peepso styling, and reconsider their pricing model.Oh, also, once a user had paid for a licence once - they actually (WordPress licencing rules) have rights to use the plugins and extensions indefinitely just not with updates or support. Peepso hinders this by having licence and version checking in the init sequence of every page load - which then blocks the extensions from working if you haven't renewed. This should also be changed - if the product is good enough, users will happily renew their licences. Overall, a potentially good product but it caused our team thousands of hours of work to keep it running the way it should. The alternative WP plugin replacement we have chosen (not naming it here but it's easy to find with some research) has proven to be robust, better coded (although also with some small niggles) and uses the WP customizer and database storage in a logical and well.designed fashion. 


Finally Migrated Away After 3½ Years of Nuisance

Your own beautiful community. With user profiles, activity stream, notifications, members, blog posts with comments and more.

Response Stack vs Community by PeepSo – Social Network, Membership, Registration, User Profiles, Premium – Mobile App