Our Black Friday STORE is OPEN!
A modern Community
platform for Creators
The BEST All-in-one, Simple, Beautiful, community platform for WordPress!
Build your Community
- on Your Own Terms👫🤝
Empower your audience, foster connections, and build a thriving
online space that's fully in your control. No limits, just possibilities!
In recent years, many community owners have noticed a significant drop in engagement within platforms like Facebook Groups and other social media-based communities. As engagement on traditional platforms like Facebook Groups continues to decline, more people are migrating to community sites they can own and manage independently.
Building a fun, engaged, and supportive community where you look forward to logging-in and connecting with your community members - can be so energizing, if you use the RIGHT platform!
Welcome to Smart Forum Builder
With Smart Forum Builder (SFB), you can create a stunning community hub -
an online gathering place for your members to connect, interact, and exchange ideas.
Empower your online space with:
☑️ Complete control over your community’s setup, appearance, and rules.
☑️ Endless options to boost engagement and keep members coming back.
☑️ Rapid, daily improvements tailored to meet your evolving needs."
Your Community, Your Rules -
With SFB, the Possibilities Are Endless!
Feed
Gamified Dashboard -
points, badges, Levels & more
Double your engagement - using Gamification!
Motivate, Engage, and Reward
The gamification features in Smart Forum Builder are designed to
keep your members engaged, motivated, and actively participating.
By incorporating points, badges, levels, and leaderboards, you can
create an engaging environment that keeps members motivated and active.
Badges/Levels
Award points, achievements, badges, and allow users to move up levels to enhance engagement and encourage consistent contributions.
Leaderboard
The Leaderboard showcases the top community members based on the points they’ve earned. It creates friendly competition, encouraging users to engage regularly and climb the ranks.
Seeing their rank in relation to others motivates users to earn more points, whether by posting frequently, commenting, or sharing valuable content.
An Online Home for your Members!
Create a Vibrant Community,
Not Just an Email List!
Centralized Dashboard
Content, Community, Connections, Communication, Collaboration
Your community, online courses, products, trainings, challenges, lead magnets,
and memberships - all seamlessly connected in one powerful dashboard.
With a dashboard that seamlessly integrates both content and community features, you'll effortlessly maintain member engagement, while encouraging interaction and participation in discussions among community members.
You can add custom menu items. Each menu item can be connected to any shortcodes. When users click on the menu item, it'll render the shortcode. You can also connect menu items to a specific URL or just display text content.
Private Messages:
One-on-One & Group Chat
SFB comes with an incredible 'messaging' feature that will allow your community members to private message each other. They can also create a room with multiple members for a group chat. The conversations are fully secure and encrypted.
Member Directory
Smart Forum Builder comes with a powerful, step-by-step wizard to help you build out your forums! You can build it out manually or use AI to quickly build out your entire community space - categories, discussion forums and topics!
Find, Connect and Collaborate with Like-minded Community Members
You can easily enable member directory feature in the backend! It'll appear in the left menu (under 'members'). This is a configurable option. Your members can opt out of the directory if they don't want to be listed.
This feature currently supports member search by name, but additional features such as search by location, bio, and also members in a specific forum - coming soon!
Access + Integrations
You can make your community private or public. Private communities can only be access by logged-in members. Public communities can be viewed by anyone but only registered members can post. The level of access your logged-in members have can be configured in the backend - using tags, roles, or product-based access!
Forum Access
Control Forum Access Based on Memberships, WordPress Roles, Products, Courses or Tags
Role-Based Access
Allow forum access based on user's WordPress role. And what they can do, depends on the permissions. You can configure different permissions for each role. You can also create custom roles.
Tag-Based Access
Allow forum access based on user tags. SFB will check the tag users have. SFB integrates with both WP Fusion and FluentCRM. And what users can do, depends on the permissions assigned to the WP role that users have.
Product-Based Access
Allow forum access based on products, courses or memberships. SFB will check the products logged-in users have. SFB integrates with both DAP and WooCommerce. And what users can do, depends on the permissions assigned to the WP role that users have.
Integrations
SFB has built-in integration with several platforms such as WooCommerce, DigitalAccesPass (DAP), LearnDash, WP Fusion, FluentCRM, GamiPress, MyCred, ThriveCart, SureCart, TutorLMS, etc. More integrations with popular platforms coming soon.
1-Click Community Setup
1 Click Setup
Get started within a few minutes
Courses / Challenges
Offer FREE Courses / Challenges
Offer FREE Courses / Challenges
Your content and community – all in one place.
You can use SFB to offer free courses/challenges from your community dashboard. You can build them manually or create them using SFB's AI feature!
Users can sign up using SFB's registration page (you won't even need an opt-in page).
SFB does not yet have the fancy LMS features needed for paid products, but you can use it to launch your free courses/challenges. For paid content, you can use LMS such as DAP, LearnDash or TutorLMS.
More Features
SFB is a powerful community plugin!
It's modern.
It's smart.
It's intuitive.
It has a beautiful UI.
It's fully customizable.
It's designed to help you keep bringing your members back to your site.
And it's loaded with features to help you monetize your community.
SPAM Control
From captcha, content moderation IP/Email blocking, double opt-in support, to reporting posts to admin, SFB has several built-in spam control features to help you run your community smoothly.
Bookmark
When a user finds content they want to save for later, they can click on the bookmark icon associated with that content. This action adds the content to their list of bookmarks.
Translations and Loco Translate Integration
You can translate all of the frontend messages.
Smart Forum Builder also seamlessly integrates with Loco Translate, allowing you to effortlessly translate your forum content into multiple languages, reach a global audience and break down language barriers with ease.
Menu Builder
You can configure both left side and top menu options. You can show and hide pre-defined menu options. You can add custom menu items. Menu items can be a URL, Link, or text content.
Email Notifications
You can configure different email notifications for admins and users! You can customize the contents of these emails. You can send registration email, double-opt email, new follower email, new topic approval email, new reply email, and more!
Full-Fledged Report
Track Community Performance and Growth
You can't improve what you can't track! SFB comes with detailed reports to help you monitor how your community is doing, including your most active forums, popular discussions in different groups, and more!
AI-Powered Community
Setup Wizard: Step-by-step AI-powered wizard will help you build and launch your online community in minutes
See
How the setup wizard works
Worried about the time or amount of effort it will take to setup an online community? How about just 10 minutes? You can build your entire Online Community in less than 10 minutes - using SFB's AI-Powered, Step-by-Step Wizard.
1.
What is your
community about?
Just enter a couple of lines about your business/niche, pick a community slug, and set community as private or public.
2.
Setup brand colors
and upload logo
You can configure primary, secondary brand colors and upload a logo image for your community page.
3.
Pick a category. Use AI
to add relevant forums.
Pick a category. Add forum details manually, or get AI to generate relevant forums under the category!
4.
Pick a forum. Use AI
to add relevant topics
Now pick a forum, and you can add topics manually, or get AI to generate relevant topics under each forum!
5.
Use the 1-click community setup to add pre-built forums / topics.
SFB also comes with a quick start option (pre-built forums) to help you quickly go live with your community!
6.
Congrats! Your online community space is ready!
It's ready! Now you can edit your forums, setup access/permissions and update it as needed.
Member Registration / Login
Use SFB's forms or connect to your custom page!
SFB comes with support for login and registration forms to allow community members to register, login and access your forums. If you do not want to use SFB's registration or login forms, you can disable it here, and enter the URL of your login/registration pages.
Registration Form
If you want to allow users to register for FREE and get access to forums, you can use SFB's registration form.
Login Form
If you want to allow users to login to your forums using SFB, you can use SFB's login form. SFB will login them into WordPress.
Schedule your Posts
You can create your forums/topics ahead of time but schedule the release so they are available on a specific date! Your users will not see the posts in the frontend until the scheduled date/time!
Weekly Digest & Email Broadcast
Weekly Digest
Bring your members back to your site!
SFB can automatically email your community members all key events from your community - latest posts, popular posts, latest comments, popular comments, etc.
You can customize this message. You can schedule what day / time of the week you want the email to go out. Members can opt-out of this email if they want.
SFB will use your SMTP connection to send this email once-a-week.
Email Broadcast
Send out "email broadcast" to your community members directly from SFB!
You'll have the option to send it to:
- All members
- Members of a specific category
- Members of specific forums
No email platform integration required!
In the email, you can use tags to send "latest comments", "latest posts", "popular comments", "popular posts", etc.
Sidebar Widgets
You can activate any of these Sidebar Widgets on your Discussion Forum Pages or User Activity Pages.
About Me - Widget
This widget allows users to provide information about themselves, such as a bio, and possibly links to their social media profiles or personal website. It helps community members get to know each other better.
Uploaded Videos / Images
The "Images and Videos" widget on the sidebar fetches and displays the images and videos uploaded by the currently logged-in user. Users can click on the thumbnails to view the full-size image or video.
Following / Followers
This widget displays the users who are following the current user and the users whom the current user is following. It facilitates social connections within the community and helps users keep track of their network.
Invite Friends / Followers
This widget enables users to invite their friends and followers to join the community. Great tool for expanding user base through word-of-mouth and social sharing.
Recent Forums / Topics
This widget displays a list of recent forum discussions or threads. It helps users stay updated on the latest conversations happening within the community and encourages participation in ongoing discussions.
FAQ
This widget provides quick access to commonly asked questions and their answers. It helps users find solutions to common issues without having to search through the entire community.
🎉 Ready To Get Started?
Choose the PLAN that's RIGHT for YOU!
For LIFETIME License: Use Coupon: BF24LIFE ($300 off)
For Annual License: Use Coupon: BF24ANNUAL (30% off on the first year)
You missed out!
Annual Plan
$99/per year
Use Coupon: BF24ANNUAL (30% off on the first year)
2-Site License
$109/per year
Use Coupon: BF24ANNUAL (30% off on the first year)
On Demand Training
$119/per year
Use Coupon: BF24ANNUAL (30% off on the first year)