A growing community eventually needs to pay for itself and stay civil at scale. BuddyNext Pro adds the application and monetization layer: membership plans with on-site checkout and content protection, gateway-agnostic payments, email automation, and AI-assisted moderation review. Requires BuddyNext Free.
Learnomy "Continue Learning" panel on the member profile, showing in-progress courses with a link back to the learning dashboard.
Owner-only profile panel primitive so integrations can add sections only the profile owner sees.
Improve
White-label trimmed to backend name and logo; per-space branding was removed as out of scope.
Dev
Added a translation-ready i18n delivery standard for Pro stores and views.
Compat
Aligned with BuddyNext 1.0.7. Install both updates together.
v1.0.5
July 6, 2026
New 1 Improve 1 Fix 4 Compat 1
New
Membership events (subscribe, cancel, renew, lapse) fire outbound webhooks through a Pro listener that plugs into Free's webhook engine.
Improve
Scheduled posts run their go-live effects (mentions, auto-moderation) exactly once at publish, with an owner-permission check and site-timezone rendering in the admin.
Fix
White-label renaming no longer self-mangles the admin menu label, and a clean uninstall path removes Pro data on request.
The subscription renewal email links to the pricing page reliably, and the custom-reactions admin toggle reflects the real enabled state.
The AI-ranked feed uses the shared feed cache again instead of re-running the full feed query on every page view.
Expired jobs, unpublished listings, and revoked certificates now leave the community feed and search results instead of lingering forever.
Compat
Requires BuddyNext 1.0.5 and PHP 8.1. Install both updates together.
v1.0.4
July 2, 2026
New 7 Improve 5 Fix 9 Dev 3 Compat 1
New
Members manage their plan from Settings > Membership: current plan, renewal date, payment history, and downloadable invoices in one place.
Cancelling a subscription keeps access until the period ends, then moves the member to a proper lapsed state instead of cutting them off instantly.
The pricing page is a normal editable WordPress page, so owners can restyle their plan showcase with the editor they already know.
Every plan entitlement explains what it grants, right under its toggle, and the entitlement editor uses clean full-width rows.
Per-space paywall copy is editable on the space manage screen, stored with the space's own settings.
Career Board, Listora, and Learnomy integrations get per-integration display controls: navigation tab, feed posting, and sub-tab visibility.
Pro ships in 10 languages (German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese), including JavaScript strings.
Improve
The bulk moderation queue shows who posted what instead of raw IDs, and bulk member actions accept usernames or emails.
Insights Top Content lists real post excerpts with authors instead of raw object IDs, and deleted members read as such.
Membership checkout, cancel, and thank-you surfaces use the shared BuddyNext dialogs and button styles - no more native browser popups.
Broadcast and drip confirmations use the styled dialog instead of the browser popup.
White-label logo selection uses the WordPress media library with preview and remove, and per-space brand settings live in BuddyNext's space metadata.
Fix
The broadcast "Active members" audience now reaches members who were recently active; it previously always resolved to zero recipients.
"Publish now" on a scheduled post publishes it for good; it previously reverted to scheduled behind the scenes.
Keyword and report-threshold rules now fire correctly on hosts whose database timezone is not UTC.
Draft and archived plans are no longer visible to logged-out visitors over the API.
A payment provider revoke marks the subscription expired (terminal) instead of cancelled, so access ends as the provider intended.
PayPal environment is a Sandbox/Live choice instead of free text, so a typo can no longer break checkout silently.
Starter plans created by early versions now show their real entitlements instead of "No entitlements configured".
Per-space paywall copy saved from the manage screen is actually used at the paywall (the storage cutover had left it disconnected).
A fresh installation no longer logs early-loading notices on its first boot.
Dev
Member data cleanup hooks BuddyNext's canonical purge event, covering the GDPR eraser as well as account deletion.
Portfolio profile panels render through the shared profile-field seam instead of a private hook.
Per-space white-label brand settings read and write through BuddyNext's space metadata API instead of a separate table.
Compat
Requires BuddyNext 1.0.4 and PHP 8.1. Install both updates together.
v1.0.3
June 1, 2026
Improve 4 Fix 1 Dev 1 Compat 1
Improve
Membership and analytics dashboards load faster on large sites by caching profile-view and dashboard aggregates.
Sending a broadcast to a large audience no longer loads every recipient at once; the audience is resolved in chunks.
Real-time and push notifications no longer hold up the page request while contacting the delivery service, so member actions feel faster.
Drip-sequence processing now runs through Action Scheduler for more reliable delivery on busy sites.
Fix
Hardened activity hooks so a third-party listener can no longer trigger a fatal error when a post is created.
Dev
Added a REST-boundary check so every Pro front-end call stays on the REST API.
Compat
Pairs with BuddyNext 1.0.3. Install both updates together.
v1.0.2
June 1, 2026
New 6 Improve 3 Fix 4 Security 2 Dev 1 Compat 1
New
Payments screen that lists every payment gateway (Stripe, PayPal, gamification points, sandbox) in one place, each with an enable toggle, its own settings, and a default-gateway pick.
PayPal gateway: members can pay for a membership with PayPal hosted checkout, with webhook and on-return fulfilment.
Redeem a membership tier with gamification points, using a per-tier points price and an owner-configured points value.
Members choose their payment method at checkout when more than one gateway is active, and can cancel their own membership from the My Membership page.
Monthly and Yearly billing-interval toggle on the pricing table when plans span both intervals.
Search subscriptions by member name or email in the admin, with a paginated list.
Improve
Stripe now uses hosted Checkout, so payment is reliably collected before a membership is granted.
Subscription lifecycle hardened: provider renewals extend access, cancelling a membership cancels it at Stripe or PayPal so billing stops, and a re-delivered payment notification no longer double-grants.
Consolidated to a single checkout and webhook path; the legacy Stripe-only flow was retired.
Fix
The membership schema (points price and payment source) now migrates correctly on update.
Broadcast email sending runs through Action Scheduler; resolved a Free and Pro scheduler-group collision.
Resolved a WordPress 6.7+ "textdomain loaded too early" notice.
A deleted user's Pro membership and related rows are now purged.
Security
The PayPal membership webhook refuses unsigned events, closing a path that could grant a free membership.
Payment secret keys are no longer rendered into the admin page; stored keys stay masked.
Dev
Composer is no longer required at runtime (hand-written autoloader, vendor is dev-only); added WPCS tooling and a pre-commit gate.
Compat
Pairs with BuddyNext 1.0.2. Install both updates together.
v1.0.1
June 1, 2026
New 1 Compat 1
New
White-label: replace the "BuddyNext" name and logo across the WordPress admin and in all BuddyNext emails. Backend only - the site front end follows your theme.
Compat
Pairs with BuddyNext 1.0.1, which adds WPMediaVerse upload activity and oEmbed link posts. Install both updates together.
v1.0.0
June 1, 2026
New 7 Compat 1
New
Membership system: create plans with prices and entitlements, on-site checkout, content protection, and gated spaces.
Gateway-agnostic payments with a no-keys Test gateway for QA and an embedded Stripe gateway for live charges.
Member surfaces: a pricing page, My Membership, and post-checkout flows, with membership trials as a first-class state.
Portfolio profile panel that renders each app integration as a sub-tab with structured facts and highlights.
Email automation: campaigns, drip sequences, broadcasts, and a shared composer with a live branded preview.
AI-assisted moderation review of the report queue, routed through WordPress core's AI connector.
Full translation readiness across Pro admin and member surfaces with a complete buddynext-pro.pot.
Compat
Requires BuddyNext 1.0.0 (loads the EDD SDK and Action Scheduler from Free). Install both together.
v0.6.0
beta1
New 5 Improve 3 Fix 4 Security 1 Compat 1
New
Membership system: create plans with a price + entitlements; members buy on-site; access is gated by entitlements (vertical-agnostic).
Gateway-agnostic payments (PaymentGateway contract + GatewayRegistry) with a no-keys Test gateway for QA and an embedded Stripe gateway.
Content protection: members-only content shows a teaser + checkout CTA; gated spaces honor the plan entitlement.
Tiers admin: price/billing + entitlements grid; plans are inactive by default with an Activate/Deactivate toggle.
Member surfaces: pricing ([buddynext_membership_pricing]), My Membership ([buddynext_my_membership]), thank-you; REST under buddynext-pro/v1.
Improve
Moderation: scheduled AI review of the report queue via Action Scheduler; editable built-in default rules; retention house-cleanup.
Email: shared composer with live branded preview for Campaigns + Drip; broadcast segment pickers; UTC scheduling.
Route all AI through WordPress 7.0's core connector, removing duplicated provider code.
Fix
Drip step delay is now measured from the last step sent, not from enrollment.
Subscription expiry now emails the member.
threshold_remove auto-suspension is bounded by a configurable duration (was indefinite).
Broadcast N+1 dispatch, zero-recipient guard, and cancel for stuck broadcasts.
Security
Mask the Stripe secret key and webhook signing secret in the admin.
Compat
Pairs with BuddyNext 0.6.0-beta1. Install both together.
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