Forum
Threaded discussion forum
Open threads, replies, voting, pinning, tags and categories. The modern forum bbPress never became.
WordPress community plugin · Free & Pro · v1.5.0
Own your community
Own your community
on WordPress.
No SaaS rent, no transaction fees, no data held hostage. Jetonomy puts a forum, Q&A, ideas board, show and tell, and a social feed in one self-hosted plugin, on your domain, on your server.
Free forever. No credit card. Circle starts at $99/mo. Jetonomy Pro is $69/yr, self-hosted.
On your server
24 jt_* tables
- Self-hosted on your WordPress
- Your data, your domain
- One-time or yearly license
- No per-member or per-transaction fee
- Works with any theme
All in one plugin
Forum, Q&A, ideas, show and tell, and a feed: one install
Most plugins give you a single generic forum. Jetonomy ships five distinct space types, so you pick the right shape for each conversation and run them side by side. Here is what each one actually looks like.
Q&A
Q&A with accepted answers
Questions get one marked best answer, reply voting, and sort-by-votes. Built for support and course help.
Ideas
Ideas board and roadmap
Members upvote feature requests; you set status badges (Planned, In progress, Shipped) and close the loop.
Show & Tell
Show and tell showcase
An image-first space for member projects, before/after, and portfolios, with reactions and featured posts.
Social Feed
Short-form social feed
A scroll-by-recency timeline for daily member chatter, reactions, and comments inside a paid club.
Different shapes for different conversations.
Run multiple space types in parallel from one plugin. Each journey playbook walks the member view, the admin setup, and the moment it clicks.
Browse the 6 journey playbooksWho it's for
One community engine, many use cases
From a SaaS support desk to a course cohort or a public product roadmap, Jetonomy runs the whole thing on your own WordPress site.
SaaS & support teams
Deflect tier-1 tickets with a searchable Q&A space where members answer each other.
Course & education creators
Turn students into a peer-learning community with accepted-answer Q&A next to your lessons.
Product teams
Run a public roadmap and ideas board so customers vote on what you build next.
Creators & clubs
Give members a show-and-tell space and a daily feed they actually come back to.
Membership sites
Gate spaces by plan with MemberPress, PMPro, RCP, or WooCommerce Memberships.
Agencies & developers
Ship a themeable, REST-driven community for clients without stacking five plugins.
Why Jetonomy
Stop renting your community. Stop running a 2009 forum.
vs hosted SaaS
Circle, Mighty Networks, Facebook Groups
You pay $99 to $360 a month, your members live on someone else's servers, and the platform owns the engagement and the algorithm. Raise prices, change terms, or shut down, and your community goes with them.
Jetonomy is self-hosted. One license, your domain, your database. The members and the data are yours.
vs dated WordPress forums
bbPress, wpForo, Asgaros
Legacy plugins store everything in wp_posts, slow your main site at scale, ship dated UIs, and offer one generic forum with no REST API. bbPress is effectively unmaintained.
Jetonomy uses 24 dedicated tables, the WP Interactivity API, CSS-variable theming, and a full REST API: the forum bbPress should have become.
From both sides
What members see. What admins see.
Members get a clean reading and posting surface. Admins get one moderation queue and a trust system that grows with the community. Same database, two very different surfaces.
Moderation & trust
A community that moderates itself
Trust levels 0 to 5 hand members moderation abilities automatically as they contribute. A single front-end queue catches flags and first posts, so you spend minutes, not hours, keeping the space clean.
- Automatic trust progression
- Front-end moderation queue
- Per-space spam and approval rules
Analytics (Pro)
Know what your community is doing
The Pro analytics dashboard tracks engagement trends, top contributors, and retention over any date range, so you can see which spaces are working and who is carrying the conversation.
- Engagement and growth trends
- Top contributors leaderboard
- Filter by space and date range
AI moderation (Pro)
AI that triages spam before you see it
Optional AI moderation scores incoming content and routes likely spam and abuse to the queue automatically. You stay in control: it suggests, your rules and your moderators decide.
- Content scoring on new posts
- Auto-route to the moderation queue
- Native flow, your keys, your rules
Reactions & polls (Pro)
Lightweight engagement, built in
Emoji reactions let members respond without writing a full reply, and polls attach single or multi-select questions right to a topic. Small touches that lift daily participation.
- Emoji reactions on posts and replies
- Single and multi-select polls
- Custom badges with earn conditions
Built for scale
The forum bbPress should have become
Jetonomy stores discussions in 24 dedicated jt_* tables, not wp_posts, so a community of tens of thousands of posts never bloats your main site. Benchmarked at sub-200ms page loads at 10k+ posts on Redis-backed hosting.
- 24
- dedicated jt_* tables
- <200ms
- page loads at 10k+ posts
- 48+
- REST endpoints (90+ in Pro)
- 5
- membership integrations
Compare
How Jetonomy stacks up
An honest look at what you give up with each alternative, and what Jetonomy does instead.
| Alternative | What you give up | With Jetonomy |
|---|---|---|
| Discourse | Separate app + domain, self-hosting ops, not native to WordPress | Lives inside WordPress: one login, one billing, one stack. |
| Circle / Mighty Networks | $99 to $360 per month, their branding, your members on their servers | Self-hosted. One-time or yearly. Your domain, your data. |
| bbPress | Effectively unmaintained, slow at scale, no REST API, dated UI | Modern stack, dedicated tables, one-click import from bbPress. |
| wpForo | Dated UX, hard theme integration, heavy at scale | CSS-variable theming + jt_* tables: fast and on-brand. |
| Facebook Groups | Meta owns the audience, the algorithm, and the engagement | Members come to your site, where engagement converts. |
4.7
Rated 4.7 out of 5 across Wbcom Designs products
Jetonomy is built by Wbcom Designs, a WordPress agency shipping community plugins and themes since 2013, trusted by thousands of sites.
- WordPress agency since 2013
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Active development and support
Start free, grow with Pro
Free is a complete community
Free is not crippled to force an upgrade. Run a real community on it indefinitely: five space types, trust levels, voting, accepted answers, search, moderation, and importers. Pro adds what growing communities ask for.
- Emoji reactions on posts and replies
- Private 1:1 and group messaging
- Single and multi-select polls
- Custom badges with earn conditions
- AI moderation and email digests
- Analytics dashboard and SEO per space
Common questions
Quick answers before you install
Is Jetonomy free?
Yes. The free plugin runs a complete community: five space types, trust levels, voting, accepted answers, search, notifications, moderation, and one-click importers. No SaaS fees. Pro adds reactions, private messaging, polls, badges, analytics, custom fields, AI moderation, and email digests.
Do I own my community data?
Completely. Jetonomy is self-hosted on your own WordPress install. Posts, members, and engagement live in dedicated tables in your database, on your server, under your domain. There is no third-party platform that can hold your community hostage or change the terms.
Does it require BuddyPress?
No. Jetonomy is fully standalone and works with any theme. BuddyPress integration is available if you already run a BuddyPress community, but it is never required.
Can I migrate from bbPress or wpForo?
Yes. One-click importers cover bbPress, wpForo, and Asgaros. Topics, replies, users, attachments, and basic metadata move over, and old URLs can be redirected to preserve SEO.
Will it slow down my main site?
No. Jetonomy uses 24 dedicated jt_* database tables, not wp_posts, so the community scales independently of your main content. It is benchmarked at sub-200ms page loads with tens of thousands of posts on Redis-backed hosting.
How do I gate spaces by membership?
Five built-in integrations: MemberPress, LearnDash, Restrict Content Pro, WooCommerce Memberships, and Paid Memberships Pro. Per-space access rules are visual, with no code.
How much does Pro cost?
Pro starts at $69 per year (Personal, 1 site) or $199 per year (Agency, unlimited sites). Every Pro purchase includes a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Can my developers customise it?
48+ REST endpoints in free (90+ in Pro), a template override system, an adapter pattern for swapping providers, and CSS custom properties for theming. Built for developers who build for clients.
Your community. Your data. Your domain.
Download the free plugin, run the 5-minute setup wizard, and pick the right space type for your members. No SaaS rent, ever.