ONLINE COMMUNITY · 50+ articles
Build, grow, and monetize WordPress communities.
Engineering patterns, platform comparisons, and growth playbooks for online communities on WordPress, from a team shipping community software (BuddyPress add-ons and BuddyX themes) since 2013.
What you'll find here
- Platform decision: BuddyPress vs BuddyBoss vs PeepSo vs Discourse
- Build the first 90 days: onboarding, content seeding, moderation
- Engagement systems and add-ons that move retention
- Monetize without breaking trust: memberships, premium groups, services
Our take
We've built BuddyPress code that runs on 100K+ sites and shipped custom community platforms for clients across SaaS, education, and membership niches. The recommendations here are what we'd build today, not theory from 2015.
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