Self-hosted media community
Drop a gallery on any page, filtered by tag. Your members keep it fed, on your WordPress, at your domain.
Free on every site you own. No licence key, no member cap, nothing that expires.
One block, many rooms
The grid block takes a tag, a category, a media type or a member. Tag a page
travel and it fills itself as people post, so you get a curated gallery
without doing any curating. That block is in the free plugin, and it shows every
photo at its own aspect ratio rather than square-cropping it.
Pro Pro swaps the whole feed for one of four named layouts. Same media, a different room.
They will, eventually. Members report it, it lands in a review queue, and the log records who acted. That is in the free plugin, because a site that accepts uploads and cannot handle this is not finished.
How moderation worksPrivacy is set per item and per album rather than once for the whole site, so a members-only shot stays members-only. It is the first question a member asks before posting anything personal.
How privacy worksWorks with the rest of your stack
MediaVerse keeps a register of the Wbcom plugins it integrates with and probes for them at runtime. Where one is present it hands over; where it is absent, nothing shows. With BuddyNext it stands its own interface down entirely.
Pro ships a WP-CLI importer for each of these, and every one keeps the original upload dates and author attribution, so a migrated library does not arrive looking like you posted all of it this morning.
Pricing
Every Pro tier has every Pro feature. What changes between them is how many sites the licence covers and how quickly support answers. Annual keeps updates flowing; the lifetime price is the same licence with no renewal.
Free
$0
Every site you own
A working media community: uploads, albums, privacy levels, moderation and the BuddyPress integration. Not a trial.
Personal
$69/yr
1 site
or $199 once
One community that has outgrown local disk, or wants competitions running.
Developer
$99/yr
5 sites
or $299 once
A handful of sites, or a freelancer with clients on retainer. Adds priority email support.
Agency
$199/yr
Unlimited sites
or $499 once
Client work. Adds free migration of your first client, priority release-candidate access, and the right to resell at your own rate.
30-day money back on Pro. 9 blocks, 14 shortcodes and a 92-route REST API sit underneath, if that is the sort of thing you check.
They need an account on your site, which is the point: the photos belong to your community rather than to a platform. They never see wp-admin, though. Uploading, albums and privacy all happen on the front end.
It produces galleries. The difference from a classic gallery plugin is who fills them: you place a grid filtered by tag, and your members keep it stocked. If nobody but you will ever upload, a simpler gallery plugin will serve you better.
No. It runs standalone with its own member library and profiles. BuddyPress is an integration rather than a requirement, and if you run BuddyNext it hands the interface over rather than competing with it.
Uploads, albums, per-item privacy, the tag-filtered grid block, the moderation queue and the BuddyPress integration. It is a working media community, not a trial. The four named feed layouts are Pro, as are cloud storage, per-member quotas and photo competitions.
Yes, if it is in rtMedia, MediaPress or BuddyBoss Media. Pro ships a WP-CLI importer for each that keeps original upload dates and author attribution, so a migrated library does not look like you posted everything yesterday.
The free plugin is a working media community. Nothing expires, and nobody counts your members.
