Description

TrueCommunity turns a WordPress site into a place people come back to. Members post to a shared feed, react and reply to each other, form groups around what they care about, message each other privately, and work through courses — all inside your own site, on your own domain, with no third-party community platform in the middle.

The whole front end runs as a single-page React application on top of the WordPress REST API, so moving between the feed, a group and a lesson feels instant rather than like a page reload.

The activity feed

Rich text composer with mentions, emoji, links and media attachments
Image, video and file attachments, with a built-in lightbox
Polls with live results
Reactions, likes, bookmarks and threaded comments
Pinned posts to keep announcements at the top
@mentions that notify the person mentioned

Members and profiles

A searchable member directory
Profile pages with cover image, avatar, bio and location
Clean profile URLs such as /community/u/username
Member connections with friend requests, plus blocking for anyone who needs it

Groups

Public, private and locked groups
Join requests, invitations, and admin / moderator / member roles
A separate feed inside every group
Group-level moderation for organisers

Courses

Courses built from lessons
Quizzes with automatic grading
Enrollment, progress tracking and completion
A course member list for instructors

Private messages

One-to-one and group conversations
Attachments and mentions inside chat
Unread counts and near-real-time delivery

Notifications

An in-app notification bell covering every activity type
Email templates carrying your own logo, sender name and footer text
You decide which events send email, event by event
Mail is handed off after the page response, so it never slows the site down

Built for site owners

Turn Stories, Groups, Courses, Messages and Notifications on or off individually
Your own community name, slug and light/dark brand logos
Dark mode across the whole interface
Per-page limits, upload size and attachment count you control
Multisite friendly — activate it on each site that needs it

External services

TrueCommunity does not call any external service on its own, and it sends nothing anywhere in the background. The three services below are contacted by the visitor’s browser only when a member actually uses the feature that needs them.

YouTube

Used only when a member posts a YouTube link. The video is then embedded from youtube.com and its preview thumbnail is loaded from img.youtube.com, which sends the video ID and the visitor’s IP address to YouTube. No YouTube account or API key is involved.
Terms of service: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Vimeo

Used only when a member posts a Vimeo link. The video is embedded from player.vimeo.com and its thumbnail is requested from the public Vimeo oEmbed endpoint (vimeo.com/api/oembed.json), which sends the video URL and the visitor’s IP address to Vimeo. No Vimeo account or API key is involved.
Terms of service: https://vimeo.com/terms
Privacy policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy

Google Maps

Used only when a member adds a location to their profile. A map for that location is embedded from maps.google.com, which sends the location text and the visitor’s IP address to Google. No API key is involved, and no location is collected unless the member types one in.
Terms of service: https://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps/
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Screenshots

The activity feed with posts, photos, reactions and community widgets.

The groups directory with public and private groups. — The activity feed with posts, photos, reactions and community widgets.

Installation

Upload the truecommunity folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install the plugin from the Plugins screen in WordPress.
Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen.
Open TrueCommunity Configuration and set your community name and slug.
Visit your community at yoursite.com/<your-slug>.

FAQ

Do my members need a separate account?: No. TrueCommunity uses your existing WordPress users. Anyone who can log in to the site is a member.
Does it work on multisite?: Yes. Activate it on each site that needs a community. Network activation is intentionally not supported, because each site keeps its own community content.
Can I switch features off?: Yes. Stories, Groups, Courses, Messages and Notifications are each a separate module you can disable from the settings screen.
Does it work with my theme?: The community runs on its own set of URLs with its own layout, so it does not depend on your theme’s templates. Your theme still handles the rest of the site.
Why is there a public login endpoint?: The community exposes three token endpoints under compro/v1/auth (login, refresh, logout) so a companion mobile client can sign in against the same site. They are the only write routes reachable without a session, exactly like wp-login.php, and they must be public for the same reason. login verifies credentials through wp_authenticate(), so every login filter and security plugin on the site still applies, and repeated failures from one address are locked out for fifteen minutes. The token is signed with a per-site secret generated with random_bytes() on first use, stored in an option and never included in any REST response. It carries a fingerprint of the password hash, so changing a password invalidates every token issued for that account. The bundled web app itself uses ordinary cookie authentication and never touches these routes.

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Changelog

0.1.1

Fix: PostItems component filename case, so the plugin builds on case-sensitive systems.
Added screenshots and plugin directory assets.

0.1.0

Initial release.