Feedorax vs GatherPress

Feedorax gives logged-in members a familiar social experience inside your site. Drop the timeline on any page with the shortcode or the Feedorax Timeline block (great for block themes). Visitors get public member profiles at pretty URLs (/feedorax-profile/username/), while your data stays in Feedorax users, user meta, and dedicated plugin tables. A REST API powers the UI and can support custom integrations. Features: Timeline – Social feed with posts, reactions, and comments (shortcode: [feedorax_timeline]) User search – AJAX search in the timeline header to find people REST API – Endpoints for timeline, connections, and auth (login/register) Responsive – Works on desktop and mobile Settings – Feedorax → Overview lists the shortcode and quick start steps Shortcode: [feedorax_timeline] – Displays the social timeline with topbar, feed, and sidebar Updating If you installed from WordPress.org: use Plugins → Updates or update from the Plugins screen when a new version is available. If you installed manually: replace the plugin folder with the new version (or upload and overwrite). Your data (tables and user meta) is preserved. The plugin runs a short upgrade check on each load and applies any required database or option changes for the new version. Privacy Accounts: Feedorax uses WordPress user accounts (name, email, profile data as stored in WordPress). Database: Custom tables store posts, comments, reactions, friend requests, notifications, chat, and related data on your server only. Media: Uploaded images and videos are stored in the WordPress Media Library. REST API: Mutating requests are protected with nonces and permission checks. External services: Optional GIF search, Google-hosted fonts, and location lookup features may contact third-party services as documented below. Site owners are responsible for their privacy policy and compliance with applicable laws (for example GDPR where relevant). External Services Feedorax can connect to third-party services for specific optional features: GIPHY API (GIF Search) What it is used for: Search and attach GIFs from the post composer. What data is sent and when: When a logged-in user searches GIFs, the plugin sends the search query text and your configured GIPHY API key from your server to api.giphy.com. Service provider: GIPHY, Inc. Terms: https://support.giphy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020027752-GIPHY-API-Terms-of-Service Privacy: https://giphy.com/privacy Google Fonts (Optional Typography) What it is used for: Load selected font families for frontend typography settings. What data is sent and when: When a site owner configures Google-hosted font families, a visitor’s browser requests font CSS and files from fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com on pages where the Feedorax UI loads. System fonts do not make these requests. Service provider: Google LLC Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy OpenStreetMap Nominatim (Optional Location Labels) What it is used for: Search for places and convert selected browser geolocation coordinates into a human-readable place name in the post composer. What data is sent and when: When a member uses location search, the visitor’s browser sends the typed place query to nominatim.openstreetmap.org. When a member chooses current location, the browser asks for geolocation permission and sends latitude and longitude to nominatim.openstreetmap.org after permission is granted. Service provider: OpenStreetMap Foundation (Nominatim) Terms: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/ Privacy: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy Source Code All plugin PHP/JS/CSS source shipped in this release is included directly in this plugin package.

Running a meetup, a user group, a conference, or a class? GatherPress gives you what you need to publish events, collect RSVPs, and keep everyone in the loop, all from your own WordPress site. Your events live on your site. You own the data, you control how it looks, and you keep the relationship with the people who show up. GatherPress is built by the WordPress community for the people who organize it: meetup organizers, WordCamp teams, user groups, and anyone else who gets people together in a room. It is free, open source, and shaped by the people using it every day. What you can do Publish events with the date, time, venue, and everything people need to know Collect RSVPs, with anonymous listing for attendees who would rather not be named Let people RSVP without an account, so nobody bounces off a signup wall Let attendees bring guests Email everyone who is coming, or everyone who is not, without leaving WordPress Run events in person, online, or both, with maps for physical venues Build and arrange it all in the block editor Multisite ready and fully translatable Try it before you install Hit the Live Preview button on this page to open a working demo in your browser. No signup, no setup, and real data to click around in. Prefer to watch first? There is a short intro demo. Join our community GatherPress is built in the open, and contributions are always welcome, whether that is code, translations, documentation, or just telling us what broke. Get involved Contributor guide Open issues on GitHub External Services This plugin connects to external services to provide address autocomplete, geocoding, and map tiles for venues. Each service has its own filter so you can point at a self-hosted alternative or disable the feature. Photon geocoding (photon.komoot.io) Used to resolve venue addresses into latitude/longitude coordinates and to power the address autocomplete dropdown while editing a venue. The plugin proxies these requests server-side: your WordPress site sends the search query string and a User-Agent identifying the site (plugin version, WordPress version, site home URL) to the Photon API. Responses are cached on your site for 15 minutes. Photon homepage / terms: https://photon.komoot.io/ Komoot privacy policy: https://www.komoot.com/privacy Override the endpoint (for a self-hosted Photon instance) with the gatherpress_photon_api_url filter. CARTO Basemaps (basemaps.cartocdn.com) Default map tile provider when the OpenStreetMap map platform is selected. When a venue map is displayed on the front end or in the editor, the visitor’s browser requests raster tiles directly from basemaps.cartocdn.com. No data beyond the standard tile coordinates (zoom, x, y) and the visitor’s IP / browser headers is sent. CARTO terms: https://carto.com/legal/ CARTO privacy policy: https://carto.com/privacy/ Override the tile URL or attribution with the gatherpress_interactive_map_tile_url and gatherpress_interactive_map_tile_attribution filters. Google Maps (maps.googleapis.com, www.google.com, maps.google.com) Alternative map provider, only used when a site opts in by choosing “Google Maps” in GatherPress settings. What the visitor’s browser requests depends on whether a Google Maps API key is configured: With an API key, the browser loads the Maps JavaScript API from maps.googleapis.com and renders the map in the page. Without a key, or if that script fails to load, the browser embeds a Google Maps iframe from www.google.com or maps.google.com instead. Either way the request carries the venue coordinates, the visitor’s IP, and standard browser headers. A configured API key travels with the request and is visible in the page source, so restrict it by HTTP referrer in Google Cloud. Google Maps terms: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/ Google privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Map and address data used by Photon and CARTO are sourced from OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright).