PeerBoard is an embeddable community and forum platform.
PeerBoard is a no-coding-required community software with clear extendable infrastructure. It provides categorized newsfeed, visual customization, rich user profiles, and multi-level commenting. You can use open-source SDK for your custom needs or WordPress integration for fast and seamless installation. PeerBoard is a perfect solution for all sorts of private and public communities, smbs, or individuals. Build a strong community in a comfy and secured place. And we'll take care of the rest.
Awarded the Quality Choice Award
Awarded the Trusted Vendor Award
Awarded the Happiest Users Award
PeerBoard currently scores 86/100 in the Internal Communications category. This is based on user satisfaction (93/100), press buzz (45/100), recent user trends (rising), and other relevant information on PeerBoard gathered from around the web.
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Product recommendations, vendor rankings, market overview and tips on how to select Internal Communications software for business. Published in April 2024.
Solutions in this subcategory are focused on communication within the company or creative teams themselves. Collaboration remains as one of the cornerstones of successful business and the ability to get the right information to the right people on time is p...
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Some of the features that I really enjoy include:
PeerBoard’s WordPress forum plugin — Embed PeerBoard as a fully customizable page in your WordPress configuration in under 20 minutes. I was genuinely surprised how quickly I was able to set PeerBoard up with my WordPress site. While it takes longer to fine tune all the group and category settings, the initial setup was a breeze. If you have experience connecting software to your website via WordPress plugin, you will easily be able to set up your own site):
A complete white label solution— Use your custom theme color, add a logo, customize categories and topics for a fully branded experience. For example, I was able to use my official brand elements (specific hex color purple, logo, and icon):
Visibility and access controls — Global and group-level controls for content visibility and access rights:
Real time threads — Facilitate valuable in-depth conversations with multi-level real-time discussions:
Email integrations — Allow members to receive periodic updates with forum highlights, recent posts, or other high level forum details, at a glance.
Free option is somewhat limited compared to the paid plans. The free plan definitely works well enough to experiment with creating an online community. But if you want to host your community on your own site, add paywalled/private content, and/or customize your community’s branding, you will need to upgrade to a paid plan:
Over the past year, I’ve worked hard to transform a series of valuable, yet disconnected posts, guides, comments, discussions, and newsletter issues into a true online community.
While I had figured out my CMS (WordPress), my main content marketing platform (Medium), and my newsletter delivery tool (Substack), I had not successfully incorporated a private forum or chat.
The main requirements in my search for a community building platform were:
The community must not be part of or reliant upon a major social media platform for distribution of content;
It must have the ability for users to write posts, share media, and display profile bio information, which is then displayed in an organized manner;
It must be software that can easily integrate with my existing website (BloggingGuide.org). Ideally, it would be a WordPress plugin, since I didn’t want an overly technical or complex addition to my website;
Although I am using it as a private community, I wanted the ability to create public facing content which can be easily partitioned from the premium content at some point in the future;
The software must be user friendly and minimalist in design, so that community members don’t feel overwhelmed and actually use the forum/discussion features.
These requirements led me down a rabbit hole investigating the latest online community management systems. There are many options that meet some of these requirements, but there was only one platform that truly checked all of the boxes — PeerBoard.
