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Stay on free if
- Hobby, school, or small community
- Under your hosting limit
- BuddyPress or no BuddyPress, either is fine
- Default Grid layout works for you
WordPress · Photos + video + community · Free forever
Run a photo album plugin.a community gallery.a member photo wall.an Instagram clone.an rtMedia alternative. A WordPress photo and video community your members will actually use.
Members post photos and videos, organise them into albums, react and comment, follow each other, send each other DMs. Six privacy levels per upload, automatic safety check on every post. Works on its own or with BuddyPress. A modern rtMedia alternative, free forever.
What you can do with the free version
For members and the person running the site.
Members can
- Post a photo or video from any device
- Group uploads into albums and collections
- Like, react, comment, follow other members
- Send each other direct messages with media
- Pick who sees each upload: everyone, friends, group, or private
- Browse the public explore feed
You can
- Run a media community without paying for extras
- Use it standalone or with BuddyPress
- Let automatic AI checks block unsafe content
- Brand the site any way you want with the existing theme
- Add the upload block, lightbox, and explore feed via Gutenberg
- Use it on as many sites as you want
The decision in 10 seconds
Most communities stay free.
Pro pays off when one of these happens.
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Move to Pro when
- Migrating from rtMedia / MediaPress / BuddyBoss Media
- Storage bill is climbing - need S3 or BunnyCDN
- Want Instagram, Pinterest, Flickr, or Dribbble layout
- Want photo contests, badges, points
- Need upload quotas tied to memberships
Free, Personal, Agency
Pick free or grab Pro at 30% off the launch price.
Free Mediaverse is the complete photo + video community for any WordPress site. Pro adds five layout modes, cloud storage, video transcoding, photo competitions, and gamification. EarlyBird applies to every Pro tier, annual or lifetime.
Start here
Mediaverse
Free forever
Free
Unlimited sites · no license key
- Drag-drop photo + video upload
- Albums + smart collections
- 6 privacy levels per upload
- Full social layer (react / comment / follow)
- Lightbox + single view
- Explore feed + DMs
- AI moderation via OpenAI Vision
- BuddyPress integration (optional)
- 80+ REST endpoints · 13 blocks
- GDPR export + erasure
Mediaverse Pro
Personal
$69 $48.3 /year
or lifetime $199 $139.3 once
One site
- Everything in free
- 5 layout modes (Instagram / Pinterest / Flickr / Dribbble / Grid)
- S3 + BunnyCDN cloud storage
- Video transcoding + HLS + Whisper captions
- Photo battles + tournaments
- Gamification (points / streaks / boosts)
- Per-user storage quotas (MemberPress / Woo / PMP)
- Voice messages + read receipts
- Google Vision + AWS Rekognition moderation
- Importers: rtMedia / MediaPress / BuddyBoss Media
Mediaverse Pro
Agency
$199 $139.3 /year
or lifetime $499 $349.3 once
Unlimited sites annual · 3 lifetime
- Everything in Pro Personal
- Unlimited client sites (annual)
- White-label admin + plugin name
- Senior engineer on Slack for emergencies
- Free migration of your first client
- Priority release-candidate access
- Quarterly review with the engineer who built it
- Resell at your own rate
Need 5 sites? Pro Developer $99 $69.3/year with EarlyBird, 5 sites.
Already running a media plugin?
One-click move from any of the three big BuddyPress media plugins.
Migrators read the source plugin tables directly. URLs survive so Google does not re-index from scratch. Larger libraries run through Action Scheduler in the background.
- 01rtMedia Mediaverse
Pick rtMedia in the migrator. Mediaverse reads the rtMedia tables direct - photos, comments, albums, privacy settings preserved.
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- 02MediaPress Mediaverse
BuddyPress-only galleries become Mediaverse albums. Follower counts survive. Activity links keep working.
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- 03BuddyBoss Media Mediaverse
Drop the BuddyBoss Platform + theme lock. Mediaverse runs standalone or with vanilla BuddyPress.
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Before you install
Six questions, six straight answers.
- 01
Can I really run an Instagram-style community on my WordPress site?
Yes. Mediaverse Pro ships an Instagram layout out of the box, and switches to Pinterest, Flickr, Dribbble, or Grid with one setting. Same content, different feel. Free uses the Grid layout.
- 02
Does it need BuddyPress?
No. Mediaverse runs as a complete media community on its own. If BuddyPress is active, profile media tabs, group tabs, and activity feed uploads turn on automatically. The integration is included, not required.
- 03
Will it slow my site down?
No. Photos and videos in Pro live in Amazon S3 or BunnyCDN, not on your server. Free uses your hosting, so it scales with whatever plan you are on. Most communities run on free indefinitely.
- 04
How does Mediaverse keep unsafe uploads off the site?
Automatic safety review runs on every upload before anything goes public. Free uses OpenAI Vision; Pro adds two more providers. You set the rule once and stop worrying about manual moderation queues.
- 05
When is Pro worth it?
Move to Pro when you want a non-Grid layout, your storage bill is climbing, you want photo competitions, or you are bringing a community over from rtMedia, MediaPress, or BuddyBoss Media.
- 06
Is there a money-back guarantee?
Yes. Pro has a 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. Free is free forever with no feature locks. Lifetime tiers cost less than two years of the equivalent annual.
Launch your WordPress media community this afternoon.
Free Mediaverse ships everything for a complete photo + video community: upload, albums, lightbox, six privacy levels, social layer, DMs, explore, AI moderation, BuddyPress integration, 80+ REST endpoints. Under an hour to launch.
Prefer to read first? Read the documentation
Free forever · Unlimited sites · No license key · No feature locks