GatherPress
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).
ZenCommunity – Community, Forum, Social Network, Chat & Support Tickets
ZenCommunity is an all-in-one WordPress community plugin. Create a private or public online community, discussion forum or social network on your own site, with spaces, activity feeds, member profiles, events and polls. Add real-time messaging, a help desk and live chat with ZenCommunity Pro. No third-party platform, no monthly per-member fees: your members, content and data stay in WordPress. Website | Pricing | Official Community Why ZenCommunity? Most sites stitch together a forum, a chat app, a help desk and a live chat widget. ZenCommunity puts them in one fast, native app, so conversations, questions and support requests never get scattered. Launch in minutes with a guided Setup Wizard and community-type presets. Looks great anywhere: app-style community page, or build your own layout with Full Site Editing blocks. Dark & light mode, your brand colors and logo, and your theme’s font. Translation-ready and accessible. Community & Social Network Features Spaces and groups – unlimited public, private or hidden spaces, organized into collections, with their own feed, members, rules and settings. Social activity feed – posts with images, media, GIFs, emoji, feelings, background colors, @mentions and #hashtags. Comments & reactions – threaded replies, emoji reactions, link previews and bookmarks. Post types – regular posts, polls, Idea posts with up/down voting, anonymous posts and scheduled posts. Events – group events with RSVP. Member profiles – display name, pronouns, cover, about, activity, connections, badges and a profile-completion bar. Member directory & search – find members, posts and spaces instantly. Notifications – in-app and email, with instant, daily or weekly digest delivery. Featured posts, media gallery, welcome banner and configurable sidebar widgets. Moderation – member approval, first-post approval, reports, warn, mute, timed suspend and ban. Roles & permissions – a role manager to control who can view, post and moderate. Login & registration – built-in pages or your own; members-only communities. Safety – optional date-of-birth field with minor-safe messaging. Full Site Editing – community blocks for the Site Editor, plus shortcodes. Pro Features ZenCommunity Pro adds: Real-time messaging – private and group chat with typing indicators, read receipts, file sharing and chat heads. Support ticketing / help desk – turn any post into a ticket; assignees, statuses, priorities, canned replies, internal notes, CSAT ratings, auto-close and guest tickets. Live chat widget – real-time website chat, even across domains, with multiple sessions, file sharing, agent profiles and business hours. AI support agent – answers tickets and live chats from your knowledge base, built from your docs or a crawled website. Reports & analytics – members, spaces, events and content trends, leaderboard, activity heatmap and CSV export. Audio and video spaces, team posts, anonymous comments, Top Ideas sorting. Follow & block members, social login and WordPress comments integration. Integrations LMS community – share course activity (enrollments, completions, lessons, quizzes, Q&A) to your community feed automatically with: Academy LMS – the deepest integration: course catalog, curriculum, enrollment, reviews, Q&A and certificates right inside the community. Tutor LMS LearnDash LearnPress LifterLMS MasterStudy LMS More – GameEngine gamification (points, ranks, badges, leaderboard), email notifications and a migration tool to move from other community plugins. Who is it for? Online courses and LMS sites, membership sites, coaches and creators, SaaS and software companies, e-commerce stores, agencies, clubs and local groups, and internal teams. Performance ZenCommunity runs entirely on your WordPress site. Pages load the data they need in a single request, real-time features use lightweight scripts, and no external service is required for the community to work. Source Code The compiled JavaScript and CSS in assets/build/ are generated from human-readable sources kept in the public repository: https://github.com/kodezen/zencommunity JavaScript/React sources: dev_zencommunity/ (admin app in dev_zencommunity/Admin/, block editor integration in dev_zencommunity/fse/) Build configuration: package.json, webpack.config.js, tailwind.config.js, tailwind.admin.config.js, postcss.config.js PHP dependencies: composer.json To build the assets yourself: Clone the repository and install Node.js 20 or later and Composer. Run npm ci --legacy-peer-deps, then npm run build (compiles everything into assets/build/). Run composer install to install the PHP dependencies. External services ZenCommunity works entirely on your own site. It contacts an external service only in the cases below. Kodezen usage insights and deactivation feedback (store.kodezen.com) ZenCommunity uses the StoreEngine SDK to talk to Kodezen’s store at https://store.kodezen.com/. Usage insights (opt-in only). After installation, an admin notice asks whether you want to share usage data. Nothing is sent unless an administrator clicks “Allow”. If you allow it, the plugin sends: site URL and name, admin name and email, server IP address, operating system, WordPress/PHP/MySQL and server versions, PHP settings and extensions, locale, multisite status, the active theme, active and inactive plugins, and the plugin version. After that it reports the same data about once a week. You can opt out at any time under ZenCommunity → Settings → License. Deactivation feedback. When you deactivate the plugin, an optional form asks why and lists what will be sent. Only if you click “Submit & Deactivate” does it send the reason, any comment you type, your name and email, the site name and URL, and the usage data listed above. Choosing “Skip & Deactivate” sends nothing. This service is provided by Kodezen: Terms of Use, Privacy Policy. Link previews (the websites members link to) When a logged-in member hovers over a link in a post or comment, your site fetches that link’s page once to show its title, description and image in a preview card. The request goes from your server to the linked website, and sends only the page address and a user agent that names your site. Nothing about the member is sent. For video and media links (for example YouTube or Vimeo) the details come from that service’s public oEmbed endpoint, from the list of providers built into WordPress, instead of the page itself. Results are cached for a day. The preview image is then loaded by the member’s browser from the linked website. Nothing is fetched until someone hovers over a link, and logged-out visitors see only the address. Developers can turn this off with add_filter( 'zencommunity/link_preview/enabled', '__return_false' );. Each linked website’s own terms and privacy policy apply. Links to other Kodezen products The “Extend your Community” dashboard section and the Live Chat settings link to product pages and downloads on https://store.kodezen.com/. These are plain links that open in your browser, and no data is sent until you click one. Products hosted on WordPress.org (for example GameEngine, GemBooking and Zaplane) are installed only when an administrator clicks “Install”. They come from WordPress.org through WordPress’s own plugin installer.
