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WordPress Forum Plugin for communities that need to scale.
Jetonomy is a free WordPress forum plugin for forums, Q&A boards, and idea communities. It stays fast as discussions grow, trust levels reduce moderation work, matches your theme automatically, and ships with SEO-ready discussion pages out of the box.
- Fast at any scale Tens of thousands of topics, hundreds of replies per thread. Counts pre-calculated, instant loads.
- 6 trust levels auto-moderate Rate-limit new accounts, lock links until earned. Members get mod abilities as they contribute.
- Feels like an app, not a forum Vote, sort, load replies inline. No page reloads. Modern community UX members expect.
- 87 Five-Star Reviews on Trustpilot
- 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
- Priority Support
- Works With Any Theme
- GPL Licensed
The problem
Most WordPress forum plugin options force you to choose between scale and features.
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bbPress slows down at scale
Everything lives in WordPress's default post storage queries degrade past a few thousand topics
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wpForo is hard to theme
Custom styles fight your theme. CSS overrides pile up. It never looks native.
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Manual moderation burns out your team
No trust system, no auto-promotion you review every post from every user, every day
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No Q&A or ideas built in
You need separate plugins for accepted answers, feature voting, and roadmap boards
Jetonomy solves all four with a single free plugin.
The WordPress forum plugin built for scale, self-moderation, and modern UX
If you are comparing WordPress forum plugin options, most either slow down as they grow or leave moderation entirely on your team. Jetonomy was built differently, around three advantages most forum plugins still do not combine.
See Jetonomy in motion
This is what an active community looks like: questions answered, members rising through trust levels, and votes surfacing the best content. All on your own site.
- New question posted in Support just now
- Maria accepted an answer 2m
- Alex reached Trust Level 3 5m
- Poll closed with 142 votes 11m
- 8 new members joined this morning 1h
Your community is live in under 5 minutes
Who it's for
Looking for a WordPress forum plugin? Here is where Jetonomy pulls ahead.
bbPress stores everything in WordPress's default post storage, which becomes a bottleneck as communities grow. wpForo uses custom tables, but it still lacks trust-based moderation and usually needs more theme work. Jetonomy combines performance, moderation, and product depth in one WordPress forum plugin.
Choose Jetonomy if you want a WordPress forum plugin that stays fast, moderates itself, and feels modern on mobile. If you're already on bbPress or wpForo, built-in importers with dry-run and resume make migration safe.
A WordPress forum plugin that gets easier to moderate as your community grows
New accounts start at Level 0 with rate limits and link restrictions. As members contribute, Jetonomy moves them through 6 trust levels automatically. By Level 3, they can help with edits. By Level 4, they can actively moderate. You configure thresholds once and the WordPress forum plugin keeps doing the work.
WordPress forum replies with trust level badges so members can see earned authority at a glance
Everything your community needs
No extensions to buy. No integrations to configure. It ships with all of this.
Trending Topics block
Surface what's hot right now with a time-decayed engagement score. Drop on the homepage to bring community signal into your marketing surface.
Embed your forum composer on any page
Drop the Compose Topic block on a landing page, sidebar, or page-builder canvas. Members can start a discussion from anywhere on your site. Picker mode shows only spaces they can post in. Fixed mode locks posting to one forum space.
One WordPress forum plugin for forums, Q&A, ideas, galleries, and feeds
Run open discussion forums, Q&A spaces where the best answer gets marked, idea boards members vote on, Show and Tell galleries, and fast social feeds. Choose a type per space instead of stitching multiple plugins together.
WordPress forum moderation with trust levels
Six trust levels with automatic promotion. New accounts are rate-limited and link-blocked. Reliable members earn moderation abilities. You set the thresholds once, then the forum plugin lightens your moderation load over time.
WordPress forum search that stays fast
Fast search out of the box, with the option to plug in Elasticsearch or Algolia as your community grows. Results are grouped by type so members can find questions, answers, and spaces quickly.
Permissions that fit real communities
WordPress capabilities, per-space roles, and trust levels resolve in a single permission check. A user can be a moderator in Support and a regular member everywhere else.
Voting, reputation, and leaderboard
Members upvote and downvote posts and replies. Good answers surface. Top contributors appear on the leaderboard. Spam loses reputation automatically.
Notifications and subscriptions
In-community notification bell, email notifications, and per-space or per-post subscriptions. Members choose how they want to be notified.
Migrate from bbPress or wpForo without rebuilding your forum
Built-in importers auto-detect your existing community. Dry-run before committing. Live progress tracking. Resume on failure. No record limit, so you can switch WordPress forum plugins without starting over.
Forum plugin API for custom WordPress builds
Full CRUD for spaces, posts, replies, votes, users, tags, notifications, and moderation. Cursor-based pagination. JSON schema validation. Build mobile apps or custom community frontends on top of the plugin.
Template overrides and CSS custom properties
Override any template from your theme's jetonomy/ directory. CSS custom properties pull from theme.json Jetonomy adapts to your brand colors, fonts, and radius automatically.
Membership plugin integrations
Gate spaces by MemberPress or Paid Memberships Pro membership level included free. Pro adds WooCommerce, LearnDash, and Restrict Content Pro.
Ideas and roadmap
Members submit and vote on ideas. Admins move them through Open, Planned, In Progress, and Done. The roadmap view shows what's coming reducing 'when will you add X?' support requests.
SEO-ready WordPress forum pages
Schema.org DiscussionForumPosting, QAPage with acceptedAnswer, BreadcrumbList structured data, Open Graph tags, Twitter cards, and XML sitemap inclusion are automatic, so your WordPress forum content is easier to discover.
A complete platform, not a simple widget
Simple, honest pricing
Pay once and own it forever, or pick the annual plan. All features included in every plan, no hidden add-ons.
- Unlimited sites no license key
- Forums, Q&A, Ideas, Feed spaces
- 6 trust levels + auto-moderation
- Voting, reputation, leaderboard
- Full-text search with filters
- 48+ REST API endpoints
- bbPress & wpForo importers
- MemberPress & PMPRO integration
- Forever free no feature locks
- Everything in Free, plus:
- 1 site license
- Emoji reactions on posts & replies
- Private messaging (1:1 & group)
- Polls with live results
- Community analytics dashboard
- Email digest & web push
- Webhooks (Zapier, Slack, n8n)
- Updates & support (lifetime or 1 year)
- Everything in Developer, plus:
- Unlimited site licenses
- White-label branding
- Reply-by-email
- Client site deployment
- Priority email support
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Free forever. Pro lifetime: pay once, own it forever. All future updates included.
Free forever no credit card required. Pro plans renew annually. Cancel any time.
Rated 4.7/5 on Trustpilot from 87 reviews
Top notch support! I've been frustrated generally by the slow support for most themes and plugins, but they are helpful and quick to reply. Highly recommend!
Woods
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I wanted to build a community website and these guys created the perfect plugins for me. To be honest, I want to buy every single one of their plugins.
Sora Seaton
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The template from Wbcom Designs is truly great. Modern, flexible, and easy to use. The support is very helpful and friendly. For questions or problems you receive fast, competent assistance.
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