Industry Online communities
We make the BuddyPress moderation plugin used by 100,000-plus sites. We make Jetonomy, the credit-and-gamification system. We have shipped 50-plus production communities. Self-hosted, no per-member tax, full data ownership.
Why this industry
Circle, Skool, Mighty Networks, and Kajabi charge per member. The math works at 500 members and breaks at 5,000. Self-hosted communities on WordPress with BuddyPress or BuddyBoss have a flat hosting cost. At scale the savings pay back the entire rebuild in the first year.
But the engineering is the harder part. Moderation systems that hold past 100 daily reports. Activity feeds that load fast at 50,000 members. Mobile-first themes that survive a sub-second LCP target. We have shipped this stack more times than any other agency we know of.
What we work with
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You outgrew Circle, Skool, or Mighty Networks and you need a self-hosted platform that does not charge per member. WordPress with BuddyPress or BuddyBoss is the answer and we are the team that has shipped it most.
A community platform with no per-seat tax and full data ownership.
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Discussion threads, member directories, group projects, mentor-student pairing, certificate workflows. LMS plus community plus commerce in one stack, integrated correctly.
Cohorts that engage 2x more than thread-only platforms.
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Member directory, dues collection, event registration, chapter management, member-only content. We rebuild this on WordPress for a fraction of the per-member fee.
Annual savings that pay back the rebuild in 18 months.
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You sell community-as-a-service or you bundle community with your SaaS. We build the multi-tenant infrastructure, the white-labeling, the admin tooling, the moderation system. We have done this four times.
A community product that 50 enterprise tenants can run without conflict.
What we build
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We make the BuddyPress moderation plugin used by 100K-plus sites. Custom activity types, member directories, group hierarchies, profile fields, gamification. We have shipped 50-plus production BuddyPress sites.
Communities that survive past 50,000 active members on a single install.
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Auto-moderation rules, report queues, content review workflows, suspension flows, ban appeals, audit logs. We built our own and we ship the same engineering for clients.
Moderation tools that scale past 100 daily reports without burnout.
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Points, levels, badges, leaderboards, store redemptions. We make Jetonomy, which powers reward loops on hundreds of communities. We can integrate it or build the equivalent custom.
Engagement loops that lift weekly active rates 30 to 60 percent.
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LearnDash or LifterLMS for courses, BuddyPress for discussions, WooCommerce for sales. We integrate all three so the cohort experience is one product, not three plugins fighting each other.
A unified learner experience without 30 plugin reconciliations a year.
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BuddyX Pro, Reign, or fully custom. Communities live on phones now. We design and build mobile-first themes that hold up on the desktop and run sub-second on a 4G connection.
Mobile session lengths 2x what the default themes deliver.
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Member migration, content migration, post backfill, redirect maps, payment migration. We have run six platform migrations and we keep the SEO and the trust signals intact.
Migrations that retain 90-plus percent of active members.
100,000+
active sites using our BuddyPress moderation plugin
Free and Pro versions across the WordPress ecosystem since 2018.
Common questions
Data ownership and pricing. Circle charges per member. Skool charges per member. Mighty Networks charges per member. WordPress with BuddyPress or BuddyBoss has a flat hosting cost and zero per-member tax. At 5,000 members the math flips. At 50,000 members the math is unrecognizable.
BuddyBoss for teams that want a polished out-of-the-box product and are willing to pay for it. BuddyPress for teams that want full control and customization. We ship both. The decision usually depends on how much custom work you anticipate over the first 24 months.
Yes, with proper engineering. Default WordPress hosting will not. We have shipped BuddyPress communities past 100,000 active members on properly architected stacks. The hosting and the database layer matter more than the plugin choice at that scale.
We make the BuddyPress moderation plugin. Auto-moderation rules, report queues, audit logs, suspension flows. We have shipped this on communities with 100-plus daily reports and the system holds. Documentation and admin training are part of every engagement.
Discord and Slack are great for chat. They are not great for searchable long-form content, courses, member directories, or member commerce. If your community is mostly real-time chat, stay on Discord. If it is content plus chat plus commerce, WordPress is usually the right answer.
Migrations from Circle or Skool are scoped per project. Custom community builds are sized depending on feature scope. White-label community products are scoped per project. Discovery call is free and we send a fixed-price quote within 48 hours.
Building a community?
Discovery call is free. NDA on request. Migration audit available before the contract.
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