SpaceBay Documentation

Turn your WordPress site into a community with spaces, a feed, events, messages, points and moderation.

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What it does

SpaceBay turns your WordPress site into a community. Members join spaces, post, comment and react in a fast portal that works on desktop and mobile, in light and dark mode.

SpaceBay is free on WordPress.org. SpaceBay Pro is an optional add-on with calls, two-factor login and tools for community managers. Features that need Pro are marked Pro.

Video (23 s): a quick tour of Home, Spaces, Events, Members and the Leaderboard.

Core capabilities

Spaces and groups: public, private and secret.
A feed with images, link previews, comments, likes, saved posts, topics and hashtags.
Events with going, maybe and can’t go answers, and Add to calendar.
Private messages and group chats.
Profiles and a member directory.
Points, levels, badges and a leaderboard.
Notifications, emails and search.
Moderation: reports, blocked words, member approval and community moderators.
Login and signup pages in your design, with Google and Facebook login.
Calls, two-factor login, a signup form builder, custom profile fields, a badge editor, event limits and member shops with Pro. Pro

Start from

Getting Started

Check the requirements, install SpaceBay and run the setup wizard.

Start here

User Guide

Spaces, posts, events, messages, points, moderation and every setting.

Browse the guide

Developers

Hooks, the REST API, template overrides and WP-CLI.

Open the reference

Quick links

Who this is for

Site owners who want to start a community on WordPress.
Administrators and moderators who run it every day.
Members who want to know how the portal works.
Developers who extend SpaceBay with hooks, templates and the REST API.

The SpaceBay portal home page with a welcome banner and the community feed

Getting Started