SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard
SureDash turns your WordPress site into a full community platform. No need to send your members to another app. No monthly per-member fees. Everything lives on your site, under your brand, with your data. Set it up in minutes. Create spaces for discussions, courses, resources, and events. Your members get a clean dashboard, their own profiles, and real-time notifications — all without leaving your website. Try the live demo — no signup required. Why SureDash? Most community tools make you choose: pay monthly fees to a third-party platform, or spend weeks building something custom. SureDash gives you a third option — a ready-to-go community platform built right into WordPress. You keep full ownership of your content, your members, and your brand. What You Can Build Discussion Spaces — Give your members a place to talk, ask questions, and share ideas. Threaded replies, rich text, reactions, bookmarks, and GIF support included. Online Courses — Build structured courses with sections, lessons, and progress tracking. Members pick up where they left off. Member Dashboard — A clean, branded home base for your members. They see their spaces, activity, and notifications in one place. Resource Libraries — Share files, guides, links, and downloads in organized collections. Events — Schedule and display upcoming events, webinars, and meetups. User Profiles — Each member gets a profile with a bio, social links, activity history, and badges. Free Features Beautiful member dashboard with light and dark mode Multiple portal layouts — Classic, Modern, and Application to match your community style Custom login and registration pages (with Google and Facebook sign-in) Discussion forums with threaded comments and reactions Modern commenting system with rich text, mentions, and reactions Multiple spaces to organize your community User profiles with social links and activity feeds Badges to reward active members Real-time notifications Giphy integration List and grid view layouts Sorting and filtering options Visual customizer — match your brand colors and style Built-in analytics — track registered users over time, recent activities, and top-performing content Mobile-friendly responsive design Works with any WordPress theme One-click AI portal creation: describe your community and let AI build the portal, or start from a ready-made preset AI assistant support through the WordPress Abilities API and MCP, so assistants can create spaces, publish content, and read your analytics WP-CLI command to switch the AI abilities on (wp suredash abilities enable) Portal Pages space type: show profile, bookmarks, leaderboard, and membership pages as spaces Space Sidebar for quick access to the sections inside a space Portal Layout template, so your regular pages and posts match the portal Community search with results grouped by type Custom URL slugs for portal endpoints Unread post counts on discussion spaces Email alerts for admins and portal managers when a member creates a post SureDash Pro Take your community further: Course Builder — Create full courses with sections, lessons, and progress tracking Member-Created Posts — Let your members start discussions, not just comment Private Spaces — Restrict spaces to specific members or groups Resource Library — Organize and share files, documents, and links Events — Schedule events and display them beautifully Member Directory — Let members browse, search, and connect with each other from one place Collection Space — Group and display multiple spaces together for easier navigation Email Notifications — Keep members engaged with automatic email updates Leaderboard — Gamify your community with points, levels, and member rankings Course Quizzes: Add quizzes to your course content and let members take them as part of the lesson flow Course Analytics: See how each course performs and how far your members have progressed LearnDash Migration: Bring existing LearnDash courses, lessons, and quizzes into SureDash Cloud Storage for Resources: Serve resource library files through Bunny.net’s global CDN with secure, signed download links Richer Events: End date and time, an event host, in-person or online locations, and Add to Calendar for Google, Outlook, and Apple Targeted Posts: Show a post only to chosen members or SureMembers access groups Collection Pricing: Tag the spaces in a collection as Free or Paid, with a Buy Now button for visitors who do not have access yet Priority Support: Get help directly from our team Learn more about SureDash Pro Works Great With SureDash is part of a powerful WordPress ecosystem: SureMembers — Protect content, create membership tiers, and control who sees what. Assign new registrations to access groups automatically. SureCart — Sell memberships, courses, and digital products. SureDash integrates directly with your SureCart store. Astra Theme — The most popular WordPress theme, fully compatible with SureDash layouts. OttoKit: Automate your portal by triggering actions when members join, post, or complete a course. Each works independently, but together they give you a complete membership and community business — all on WordPress. Perfect For Coaches and educators building a learning community Creators who want to own their audience (not rent it) Membership sites that need a member-facing dashboard Businesses building a customer community or support hub Anyone moving away from expensive monthly community platforms Links SureDash Website Documentation Support Try Live Demo
Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin
User Profile & Membership Plugin for WordPress The ultimate user profile & membership plugin for WordPress. The plugin makes it a breeze for users to sign-up and become members of your website. The plugin allows you to add beautiful user profiles to your site and is designed for creating advanced online communities and membership sites. Lightweight and highly extendible, Ultimate Member will enable you to create almost any type of site where users can join and become members with absolute ease. Features of the plugin include: Front-end user profiles Front-end user registration Front-end user login Custom form fields Conditional logic for form fields Drag and drop form builder User account page Custom user roles Member directories User emails Content restriction Conditional nav menus Show author posts & comments on user profiles Developer friendly with dozens of actions and filters Read about all of the plugin’s features at Ultimate Member Paid Extensions Ultimate Member has a range of extensions that allow you to extend the power of the plugin. You can purchase all of these extensions at a significant discount with one of our paid plans or you can purchase extensions individually. Zapier – Allow to integrate the Zapier popular apps with Ultimate Member Stripe – Sell paid memberships to access your website via Stripe subscriptions User Notes – Allow users to create public and private notes from their profile Profile Tabs – Allow to add the custom tabs to profiles User Locations – Allow to display users on a map on the member directory page and allow users to add their location via their profile Unsplash – Allow users to select a profile cover photo from Unsplash from their profile User Bookmarks – Allow users to bookmark content from your website User Photos – Allow users to upload photos to their profile Groups – Allow users to create and join groups around shared topics, interests etc. Private Content – Display private content to logged in users that only they can access User Tags – Lets you add a user tag system to your website Social Activity – Let users create public wall posts & see the activity of other users WooCommerce – Allow you to integrate WooCommerce with Ultimate Member Private Messages – Add a private messaging system to your site & allow users to message each other Followers – Allow users to follow each other on your site and protect their profile information Real-time Notifications – Add a notifications system to your site so users can receive real-time notifications Social Login – Let users register & login to your site via Facebook, Twitter, G+, LinkedIn, Instagram and Vkontakte (VK.com) bbPress – With the bbPress extension you can beautifully integrate Ultimate Member with bbPress MailChimp – Allow users to subscribe to your MailChimp lists when they signup on your site and sync user meta to MailChimp User Reviews – Allow users to rate & review each other using a 5 star rate/review system Verified Users – Add a user verification system to your site so user accounts can be verified myCRED – With the myCRED extension you can integrate Ultimate Member with the popular myCRED points management plugin Notices – Alert users to important information using conditional notices Profile Completeness – Encourage or force users to complete their profiles with the profile completeness extension Friends – Allows users to become friends by sending & accepting/rejecting friend requests Free Extensions JobsBoardWP – This free extension integrates Ultimate Member with the job board plugin JobBoardWP. ForumWP – This free extension integrates Ultimate Member with the forum plugin ForumWP. Terms & Conditions – Add a terms and condition checkbox to your registration forms & require users to agree to your T&Cs before registering on your site. Google reCAPTCHA – Stop bots on your registration & login forms with Google reCAPTCHA Online Users – Display what users are online with this extension Theme Our official theme is purpose built for websites that have logged in and out users. The theme has deep integration with Ultimate Member plugin and the extensions, different header designs for logged-in/out users and works alongside the Beaver Builder and Elementor page builders. Our other plugins In addition to Ultimate Member, we also have two other plugins: ForumWP and JobBoardWP. ForumWP ForumWP is a forum plugin which adds an online forum to your website, allowing users to create topics and write replies. Forums are a great way to build and grow an online community. JobBoardWP JobBoardWP is a job board plugin which adds a modern job board to your website. Display job listings and allow employers to submit and manage jobs all from the front-end. Development * Translations If you’re a developer and would like to contribute to the source code of the plugin you can do so via our GitHub Repository. Want to add a new language to Ultimate Member? Great! You can contribute via translate.wordpress.org. If you are a developer and you need to know the list of UM Hooks, make this via our Hooks Documentation or Hooks Documentation v2. If you are a developer and you need to know the structure of our code, make this via our Documentation API. Documentation & Support Got a problem or need help with Ultimate Member? Head over to our documentation and perform a search of the knowledge base. If you can’t find a solution to your issue then you can create a topic on the support forum.
