6Arshid Social Community

6Arshid Social Community is a complete WordPress social network plugin for building member communities, private networks, creator communities, discussion spaces, and social platforms directly inside WordPress.

It provides member profiles, activity feeds, groups, friends and followers, private messaging, notifications, polls, hashtags, bookmarks, moderation, social embeds, creator monetization, REST API support, and more — without requiring BuddyPress.

If you are looking for a WordPress social network, a flexible WP social network solution, or a standalone alternative to a traditional BuddyPress-based setup, 6Arshid Social Community gives you the core community features in one modular plugin.

Build a Social Network with WordPress

Turn WordPress into a modern social community where members can create profiles, publish activity posts, follow people, become friends, join groups, send private messages, react to content, vote in polls, save posts, and receive notifications.

The plugin is designed for:

• Private or public online communities
• Membership websites
• Creator and fan communities
• Company or organization networks
• Niche social networks
• Discussion and interest-based communities
• Local communities
• Educational and professional networks

Each major feature can be enabled or disabled independently, so you can build a lightweight community or a more complete social network experience.

Member Profiles

Members can create rich profiles with avatars, cover photos, extended profile fields, social links, privacy controls, profile completion indicators, and verification badges.

Profile features include:

• Custom profile fields and field groups
• Public, friends-only, and private field visibility
• Avatar and cover image uploads
• Profile completion progress
• Verified member badges
• User settings and privacy preferences
• GDPR export and erasure integration

Activity Feed

The activity stream is the center of the community. Members can publish posts, images, GIFs, polls, links, mentions, hashtags, and attachments.

Activity features include:

• Public, friends-only, and private posts
• Image, GIF, emoji, and link support
• Comments and threaded replies
• Reactions and comment reactions
• @mentions and member autocomplete
• Hashtags and hashtag archives
• Sticky posts
• Bookmarks and collections
• Post sharing
• Reporting and moderation
• Infinite scroll or standard pagination

Members can also edit or delete their own posts and interact with content through reactions, comments, shares, and saved collections.

Groups

Create public, private, or hidden groups with their own members, activity feeds, avatars, cover photos, invitations, and moderation roles.

Group features include:

• Admin, moderator, and member roles
• Join requests and invitations
• Group activity feeds
• Member directories
• Parent and child groups
• Group search
• Public, private, and hidden visibility

Friends, Followers, and Blocking

6Arshid Social Community supports both mutual friendships and one-way following.

Members can:

• Send, accept, reject, and remove friend requests
• Follow or unfollow other members
• Receive follower notifications
• Block and unblock users
• Discover suggested friends based on mutual connections

Private Messaging

Members can communicate through one-to-one or group conversations without leaving the WordPress site.

Messaging includes:

• Private conversation threads
• Group conversations
• Image and document attachments
• Read receipts
• Unread message counters
• WordPress Heartbeat-powered updates
• Message deletion
• Spam and abuse reporting

Notifications

The built-in notification center keeps members informed about community activity.

Notifications can be generated for:

• Friend requests
• Accepted friendships
• Reactions
• Comments
• Mentions
• Private messages
• Group invitations
• New followers

Users can control notification preferences, while email digest support can send daily or weekly summaries.

Polls, Hashtags, and Engagement

Create interactive polls directly from the activity composer. Polls support multiple options, expiration dates, live result distribution, quiz mode, reusable templates, and participation history.

Hashtags are automatically detected and linked. Members can browse hashtag archive pages, follow hashtags, use autocomplete, and discover trending topics.

The plugin also includes photo tagging, friend tagging, post sharing, sticky posts, saved bookmarks, and bookmark collections.

Moderation and Community Safety

Community administrators can manage reports, suspended users, banned words, spam, and abusive content from WordPress.

Moderation features include:

• Reporting for posts, comments, profiles, messages, and groups
• Admin moderation queue
• Resolve and dismiss workflows
• Configurable automatic suspension
• Banned-word filtering
• Suspension audit logs
• Akismet integration
• Upload validation and access controls

Social Embeds and Link Previews

Members can share links from popular social and media platforms. Depending on the provider and configuration, the plugin can display oEmbed content, sandboxed iframes, or Open Graph preview cards.

Supported platforms include YouTube, Vimeo, X / Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Spotify, SoundCloud, Pinterest, Reddit, Twitch, Dailymotion, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, LinkedIn, Telegram, Threads, Bluesky, and Aparat.

A privacy-focused click-to-play mode can prevent third-party requests until a visitor chooses to load embedded content.

Search

Unified search helps users discover content across the community from a single interface.

Search can include:

• Activity posts
• Members
• Groups
• Marketplace listings

Results respect content visibility and privacy settings.

Creator Monetization

Optional monetization tools allow creators to offer paid content, monthly subscriptions, and pay-per-view posts.

Stripe Connect support allows creators to connect their own Stripe accounts, while site administrators can configure platform fees and supported currencies.

Monetization can be disabled entirely when it is not needed.

Developer Friendly

6Arshid Social Community is built as a modular WordPress plugin with REST API endpoints, AJAX actions, hooks, filters, Gutenberg blocks, shortcodes, and template overrides.

Developer features include:

• REST API under /wp-json/arshid6social/v1/
• Action and filter hooks
• Component-based architecture
• Theme template overrides
• Gutenberg blocks
• Shortcodes for activity, members, groups, messages, notifications, profiles, bookmarks, hashtags, stories, verification, and blocking
• WordPress core XML sitemap integration

Multilingual and RTL Ready

The plugin includes internationalization support and ships with Persian (fa_IR) and Danish (da_DK) translation files.

It also includes:

• RTL support for Persian and Arabic
• Dedicated RTL stylesheet
• Jalali (Shamsi) calendar option
• Compatibility with WPML, Polylang, and TranslatePress

Security and Performance

The plugin uses WordPress security best practices throughout its forms, AJAX actions, REST endpoints, database operations, and file uploads.

Security and performance features include:

• Nonce and capability checks
• Input sanitization and output escaping
• Prepared database queries
• Upload MIME and extension validation
• Image re-encoding and EXIF stripping
• Rate limiting
• Honeypot and optional reCAPTCHA / Cloudflare Turnstile
• Conditional CSS and JavaScript loading
• Object cache and transient caching
• Database indexes
• Deferred scripts
• No jQuery dependency in front-end JavaScript

BuddyPress Alternative

6Arshid Social Community is not a BuddyPress add-on and does not require BuddyPress.

It is a standalone WordPress community and social network plugin. Sites currently using BuddyPress can use the included migration tool to help move supported data into 6Arshid Social Community.

This makes it suitable for site owners searching for a BuddyPress alternative while still wanting familiar features such as member profiles, activity streams, groups, friendships, messaging, and notifications.

Accessibility and Privacy

The interface includes keyboard navigation, ARIA labels, touch-friendly controls, dark mode support, and WCAG-oriented accessibility features.

WordPress privacy tools are supported for member data export and erasure, and users can control email notification preferences.

Third-party integrations such as GIF providers, social embeds, Gravatar, Stripe, and Akismet are documented below in the External services section.

External services

This plugin can contact the following third-party services. Calls are feature-gated and happen only when the matching feature is enabled, configured, or triggered by a user or administrator action.

Gravatar

Member profile photos fall back to Gravatar when no custom avatar has been uploaded. The request sends the MD5 hash of the user’s email address to Gravatar when an avatar is displayed.
* Service: https://gravatar.com
* Privacy Policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/
* Terms of Service: https://wordpress.com/tos/

GIF search APIs: GIPHY and Tenor

When GIF comments are enabled and an API key is configured, the GIF picker requests trending GIFs or search results from the selected provider. Search requests send the user’s search term, the configured API key, and normal HTTP request metadata such as IP address and user agent.
* GIPHY API: https://api.giphy.com/v1/gifs/
* Privacy Policy: https://support.giphy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032872931-GIPHY-Privacy-Policy
* Terms of Service: https://support.giphy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020027752-GIPHY-User-Terms-of-Service
* Tenor API: https://tenor.googleapis.com/v2/
* Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
* Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms

Social embeds and link previews

When Social Embeds are enabled and a user pastes a supported URL into social content, the plugin fetches oEmbed data, iframe metadata, or Open Graph metadata for that URL. The requested URL, site server request metadata, and any administrator-configured provider token are sent to the matched provider. Rendered embeds or iframes may also cause the visitor’s browser to contact the provider when the embedded content is displayed. Each provider can be disabled in Settings > Engagement.
* YouTube / Google: https://www.youtube.com/oembed
* Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
* Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms
* Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/api/oembed.json
* Privacy Policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy
* Terms of Service: https://vimeo.com/terms
* X / Twitter: https://publish.twitter.com/oembed
* Privacy Policy: https://x.com/en/privacy
* Terms of Service: https://x.com/en/tos
* Instagram / Meta: https://graph.facebook.com/v18.0/instagram_oembed
* Privacy Policy: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/
* Terms of Service: https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870
* Facebook / Meta: https://graph.facebook.com/v18.0/oembed_post
* Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
* Terms of Service: https://www.facebook.com/terms.php
* TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/oembed
* Privacy Policy: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/privacy-policy/en
* Terms of Service: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/terms-of-service/en
* Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/oembed
* Privacy Policy: https://www.spotify.com/legal/privacy-policy/
* Terms of Service: https://www.spotify.com/legal/end-user-agreement/
* SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/oembed
* Privacy Policy: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy
* Terms of Service: https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
* Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/oembed.json
* Privacy Policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
* Terms of Service: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/terms-of-service
* Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/oembed
* Privacy Policy: https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy
* Terms of Service: https://redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement
* Twitch: https://clips.twitch.tv/embed and https://player.twitch.tv/
* Privacy Policy: https://legal.twitch.com/en/legal/privacy-notice/
* Terms of Service: https://legal.twitch.com/en/legal/terms-of-service/
* Dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/services/oembed
* Privacy Policy: https://legal.dailymotion.com/en/privacy-policy/
* Terms of Service: https://legal.dailymotion.com/en/terms-of-use/
* Apple Music / Podcasts: https://music.apple.com and https://podcasts.apple.com
* Privacy Policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
* Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com
* Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
* Terms of Service: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement
* Telegram: https://t.me/
* Privacy Policy: https://telegram.org/privacy
* Terms of Service: https://telegram.org/tos
* Threads / Meta: https://www.threads.net/oembed/
* Privacy Policy: https://help.instagram.com/515230437301944/
* Terms of Service: https://help.instagram.com/769983657850450
* Bluesky: https://bsky.app
* Privacy Policy: https://bsky.social/about/support/privacy-policy
* Terms of Service: https://bsky.social/about/support/tos
* Aparat: https://www.aparat.com/oembed.json
* Privacy Policy: https://www.aparat.com/privacy
* Terms of Service: https://www.aparat.com/terms
* Generic Open Graph previews: when no named provider matches and generic previews are enabled, the plugin fetches the user-submitted target URL to read metadata. The external service is the target site chosen by the user; that site’s own privacy policy and terms apply.

Social sharing links

The social sharing feature builds share links in the browser. No request is sent to these services until the user explicitly clicks a share button or opens a local share handler. The shared page URL and title are passed to the selected service or app.
* Facebook / Meta: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php
* Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
* Terms of Service: https://www.facebook.com/terms.php
* X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/intent/tweet
* Privacy Policy: https://x.com/en/privacy
* Terms of Service: https://x.com/en/tos
* WhatsApp: https://api.whatsapp.com/send
* Privacy Policy: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy
* Terms of Service: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/terms-of-service
* Telegram: https://t.me/share/url
* Privacy Policy: https://telegram.org/privacy
* Terms of Service: https://telegram.org/tos
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/
* Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
* Terms of Service: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement
* Reddit: https://reddit.com/submit
* Privacy Policy: https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy
* Terms of Service: https://redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement
* Threads / Meta: https://www.threads.net/intent/post
* Privacy Policy: https://help.instagram.com/515230437301944/
* Terms of Service: https://help.instagram.com/769983657850450
* Bluesky: https://bsky.app/intent/compose
* Privacy Policy: https://bsky.social/about/support/privacy-policy
* Terms of Service: https://bsky.social/about/support/tos
* Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/
* Privacy Policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
* Terms of Service: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/terms-of-service
* LINE: https://social-plugins.line.me/lineit/share
* Privacy Policy: https://www.lycorp.co.jp/en/company/privacypolicy/
* Terms of Service: https://terms.line.me/line_terms
* Gmail / Google: https://mail.google.com/mail/
* Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
* Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms
* Yahoo Mail and AOL Mail: https://compose.mail.yahoo.com/ and https://mail.aol.com/
* Privacy Policy: https://legal.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/privacy/index.html
* Terms of Service: https://legal.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/terms/otos/index.html
* Outlook.com / Microsoft: https://outlook.live.com/owa/
* Privacy Policy: https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement
* Terms of Service: https://www.microsoft.com/servicesagreement
* Viber local app handler: viber://forward
* Privacy Policy: https://www.viber.com/en/terms/viber-privacy-policy/
* Terms of Service: https://www.viber.com/en/terms/viber-terms-use/
* Email, SMS, copy-link, and send-as-message actions are local browser/site actions. The plugin does not make a third-party HTTP request for those actions.

Stripe

When the Monetization module is enabled and Stripe keys are configured, the checkout UI loads Stripe.js from Stripe and server-side monetization requests call the Stripe API to create or retrieve payment intents and process webhook events. Data sent can include amount, currency, payment intent identifiers, Stripe keys, purchaser and creator user IDs, activity IDs, and Stripe metadata required to complete the payment. The plugin does not store raw card or bank details.
* Stripe.js: https://js.stripe.com/v3/
* Stripe API: https://api.stripe.com/v1/
* Privacy Policy: https://stripe.com/privacy
* Terms of Service: https://stripe.com/legal

Akismet

When Akismet spam checking is enabled and the separate Akismet plugin is installed and active, activity content is sent to Akismet’s spam-checking API before publication. Data sent includes the submitted content, author information, IP address, user agent, referrer, permalink, and site URL.
* Service: https://akismet.com
* Privacy Policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/
* Terms of Service: https://akismet.com/tos/

WordPress.org theme downloads

The setup wizard can download a WordPress.org theme ZIP when an administrator explicitly chooses to install a theme from the wizard. The requested theme slug and normal server request metadata are sent to WordPress.org.
* Service: https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/
* Privacy Policy: https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/
* Project License and Policies: https://wordpress.org/about/license/

Developer build helper

The development-only Bootstrap Icons download helper in the build directory downloads the Bootstrap Icons release ZIP from GitHub only when a maintainer runs that script manually. This is not executed during normal plugin runtime.
* GitHub: https://github.com/twbs/icons/
* Privacy Policy: https://docs.github.com/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-privacy-statement
* Terms of Service: https://docs.github.com/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service