The BEST,
All-in-one, Simple, Beautiful,
Community Plugin For WordPress!
Your Community, courses and Communication – all Centralized in one place
Your Community, Your Rules
Welcome to Smart Forum Builder
With powerful features, deep customizations, and seamless integrations, SFB is the plugin you need to build an engaged, branded community on your own website, without relying on third-party platforms.
-
Private MEssage
-
Forum Access
-
Any Niche
-
Member Directory
a centralized hub for dynamic interaction and content sharing
The Community Feed in Smart Forum Builder organizes posts and discussions by category, allowing users to easily navigate topics of interest, while dynamically filtering content to display only the spaces they are eligible to access. This ensures a streamlined, secure, and personalized experience, tailored to each user's roles, points, or membership levels.
Create a dynamic, engaging, and innovative space where members can
interact, collaborate, and grow in new and meaningful ways.
James P O'Malley
CarnavalPictures.net
Mind-bogglingly-gorgeous-and-innovative
Veena's Smart Forum Builder (SFB) is yet another of her "mind-bogglingly-gorgeous-and-innovative" software solutions! The sheer simplicity and speed of implementation hides the incredible power of her ever-growing and fully-integrated software family. I just completed her Community Funnel Challenge, where her clear process makes growing your community and your business a breeze!
Gamified Dashboard -
points, badges, Levels & more
Double your engagement - using Gamification!
🤔 Building a community site is one thing - keeping
people engaged is a whole different challenge.
If you've ever launched a community or membership site, you
know how hard it can be to get members to participate actively.
People sign up, maybe introduce themselves, and then… crickets.
The excitement fizzles out, and your carefully built
community feels more like an empty room.
But what if you could motivate your members to stay involved? What if your community
became a place they love to visit every day because it felt fun, rewarding, and exciting?
With Smart Forum Builder, you can make that happen.
Motivate, Engage, and Reward
Smart Forum Builder's innovative gamification features are designed to
keep your members engaged, motivated, and actively participating.
When members feel recognized and rewarded, they naturally contribute more. And when they contribute more, your community becomes more valuable - for everyone.
Smart Forum Builder helps you:
✅ Increase member retention by creating an engaging environment.
✅ Drive more contributions with points, badges, and leaderboards.
✅ Build loyalty through gamified incentives that make participation fun.
Marc Ajax
Founder of M2 Academy
The more I set it up, the more incredible I realize it is!
"Guys, I'm in love with your plugin! I love it. You guys are INCREDIBLE. I wanna congratulate the whole team.
The more I set it up, the more incredible I realize it is!
Why the hell would I pay $1200 a year for Skool when this exists? Having a low budget made me feel like I was being left out of expanding my business and my community, and I couldn't find great solutions. Even though those other external alternatives are great, having this built into my own site speaks to my mindset of 'less is more' and UX user simplification."
-
Streaks
-
Unlock using Points
-
Celebrations
-
Badges/Levels
Leaderboards for Friendly Competition
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.
Destiny Holmes
SelfCaringCo.com
SFB is the Best!
I tried BuddyBoss before, but it felt incomplete because I couldn’t use their theme. I also tried BuddyPress/BB, but it’s so outdated that I didn’t understand it. Youzify was an okay option, but it felt a bit junky.
And then tried SFB, and it’s best!
Love the gamification too! Always wanted to do it but set it up so quickly once I got SFB!
An Online Home for your Members!
Create a Vibrant Community,
Not Just an Audience
Centralize all your offerings
Content, Community, Connections, Communication, Collaboration
Your community, online courses, products, trainings, challenges, lead magnets,
and memberships - all seamlessly connected in one powerful dashboard.
-
events calendar
-
My Bookings
-
coaching calls
Centralized Content and Community Hub
Seamlessly integrate your courses, memberships, and products with Smart Forum Builder's custom menu feature, showcasing tailored offerings through your membership or course platform’s dashboard shortcode, complete with personalized recommendations in the "You Might Be Interested" section.
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.
What our users are saying...
Integrations
Effortless Integrations for Unmatched Functionality
Unmatched functionality and control enabled via Powerful integrations
Forum Access Control & Email Integrations
With SFB, you can unlock two distinct integration types that enhance both forum access control and email platform connectivity, giving you unparalleled control over how your forums can be unlocked based on courses, memberships, tags, email lists, quiz results, points, roles, and more.
-
Unlock forum access
Integrate SFB with your Email Platform
Vince Kern
nappa.us
Smart Forum Builder has been a Godsend!
Smart Forum Builder has been a Godsend to the site we're launching for a professional organization. We built it in GoDaddy's managed WordPress account and it worked fine on the staging server every time without a hiccup. We had a few dropped crumbs from moving the server live with our hosting service but the SmartForum support staff was quick to respond to our tickets and great to work with.
Go Live with your community site - in under 10 minutes!
See
How the setup wizard works
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
Pick a category. Add forum details manually, or get AI to generate relevant forums under the category!
4.
Pick a forum
Now pick a forum, and you can add topics manually, or get AI to generate relevant topics under each forum!
5.
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.
Endless Features & Possibilities
SFB is the most feature-rich community platform! Every feature is carefully designed to
help you build, grow, and engage a thriving community that delivers real value.
1-click Smart login
Seamlessly log users in via 1-click login links sent via emails. Users don't have to type-in email / password.
Login/Registration
Fully customizable login and registration forms are included, with the option to use your custom login and registration pages instead.
Activity Feed
A personalized, Facebook-style activity feed allows members to share updates and engage with the community.
Email Notifications
Comprehensive notification options such as registration approval, double opt-in, new posts, replies, new topics, comments, etc.
Menu Builder
A powerful tool to manage your navigation with customizable top, community, and bottom sections for links, forums, and resources.
Customizations
Enjoy full control over your community's design, including colors, fonts, banners, images, borders, and layout settings.
Translations
Includes built-in tools for translating messages within the plugin, along with support for external translation plugins like Loco Translate.
Theme Header
Choose between using SFB’s custom header or your site’s theme header for a seamless integration.
Maintenance Mode
Prevent access to your community during development while retaining admin privileges for content creation.
Approvals
Set manual approval for topics and send automatic email notifications upon approval.
Public/Private Directory
Control directory visibility by making it public for everyone or restricted to logged-in users or specific spaces.
Bookmark
Enable members to bookmark topics for quick access, helping them easily revisit important or favorite content within the community.
Community Lounge
Restrict community access, email notifications, and directory visibility to users who opt into the community.
Community Opt-In
Allow users to control their participation, notifications, and directory visibility based on their preferences.
Templates
Customize the left menu templates, navigation paths, and default listing layouts to suit your community's needs.
Schedule Your Posts
Prepare forums and topics in advance and schedule their release on specific dates and times, ensuring content becomes visible as planned.
SPAM Control
Ban specific countries, IP addresses, and email addresses to protect your community from spam.
GDPR
Enable GDPR mode to prevent third-party calls. Optionally disable Google Fonts for enhanced privacy compliance.
Personalized Notifications
Give users the option to opt out of emails, directories, and leaderboards while enabling notifications for topics of interest.
Permissions
Assign user permissions based on roles and control access to forums, topics, and features for a secure experience
Community Menu Builder
Build & Organize Your Community with Ease!
Creating your community site just got fun and effortless! Easily visualize every part
of your setup as you build - from creating menus, reorganizing sections, activating or
deactivating menu items, to adding forums and topics—all from one central place!
New & Announcements
✨ Want to make an important announcement?
📢 It's easy with SFB's announcement feature! Display your message to users right upon login. If you want all users to see it at least once when they access your site, this feature is perfect for you. Choose between a side popup or a center popup, and set the exact dates during which it will be active. 🗓️
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!
Login, Registration & Email Digest
Use SFB's forms or connect to your custom page!
Customizable Forms & Automated Emails
SFB includes login and registration forms for members to access your forums, along with automated weekly email digests to keep them updated and engaged.
-
Registration
-
Weekly Digest
-
Email Broadcast
Customizable Login Form
Simplify member access with built-in login forms. Alternatively, you can send members to a custom login page.
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.
Marjolein Metz
NaturewiseStories.com
Wow, I love SFB!
Before SFB came out, I used the BuddyBoss (BB) community platform. Now, I can fully say that I am very happy that I switched to SFB for my main site!
My expectations have been exceeded with SFB and this platform offers things I didn’t even know how much I wanted. 🤩 Such as turning a quiz into a forum with access for members who have taken the quiz. 😍 Such as a member directory linked to a specific forum that shows the other members who are doing the same course, for example. 😮
This collaboration between products goes beyond any integration you can achieve with external parties such as BB.
🎉 Ready To Get Started?
Choose the PLAN that's RIGHT for YOU!
Annual Plan
$99/per year
2-Site License
$109/per year
On Demand Training
$119/per year
