Feature areas
- Free
Members post their own photos
People upload from the front end, not from wp-admin.
Drag, drop, set who can see it, done. Photos, video and audio, with duplicate detection and EXIF stripping handled before the file lands.
- Free and Pro
Galleries that look like the apps people know
A grid in free, four named feed layouts in Pro.
Drop the grid block on any page and filter it by tag, category, media type or member. The free grid shows every photo at its native aspect ratio, so portrait and landscape sit together. Pro swaps the whole feed for an Instagram, Pinterest, Flickr or Dribbble layout. Either way your members fill it, not you.
- Free
Put a filtered grid on any page
A gallery block that pulls by tag, and members keep it fed.
The grid block takes a tag, a category, a media type, a member or a sort order. Tag a page "travel" and it fills itself as people post. You get a curated gallery without curating anything.
- Free
Privacy per photo, not per site
A members-only shot stays members-only.
Access levels on every item and album. The people who care about this care a lot, and it is the first question a member asks before uploading anything personal.
- Free
A queue for the things you have to remove
Reporting and review, before it becomes your problem.
Anything that accepts uploads eventually accepts something you need gone. Members report, you review, and the log says who did what.
- Free
It plugs into the community you already run
Uploads appear in activity feeds and on profiles.
Eleven integration classes for BuddyPress covering activity, profile tabs, group tabs and notifications. If you run BuddyNext instead, MediaVerse stands its own interface down and lets BuddyNext own the experience.
- Free and Pro
Reasons for people to come back
Competitions, points and leaderboards.
Photo contests with entries and voting are the mechanic most media communities actually run. Competitions are Pro; the points and activity plumbing is free.
- Pro
Somewhere to put it all
Move the library off your own disk.
Media is the one content type that outgrows hosting, and it is the reason most people upgrade. Cloud storage plus per-member quotas so one enthusiastic member cannot fill the account.
- Pro
Bring an existing library with you
Importers for rtMedia, MediaPress and BuddyBoss Media.
Upload dates and author attribution are preserved, so a migrated library does not arrive looking like it was posted yesterday by the admin.
Each link goes to the documentation for that feature, not a sales page. This hub covers 15 of them. Browse all 69 docs.
What MediaVerse is not
It shows media, it does not process it. Transcoding was removed in 2.4.0 and the plugin bans exec-family calls outright, so what your members shoot is what your visitors see. It does not sell access either: there is no storefront for paid photos, and gating the library belongs to whichever membership plugin sits in front of it. And it is the media layer rather than the community itself, so profiles, groups and activity streams come from BuddyPress or BuddyNext. The full line between free and Pro, including what Pro cannot do yet.