A real community forum for WordPress.
Categories, forums, topics, and replies with sticky and locked topics and nested sub-forums. Free core. Pro adds Q&A boards, reputation, polls, attachments, and private messaging.
Give your members a place to talk
Free core, Pro for Q&A and more
The structured forum is free and never nags. Pro unlocks Q&A boards, the reputation system, and member tools.
Structured discussion
Categories, forums, topics, replies, sticky and locked topics, sub-forums.
Friendly editor
Bold, italic, quote, code, link, and @mention autocomplete.
Clean URLs
Readable forum and topic URLs out of the box.
Topic subscriptions
Watch a topic and get an email on new replies.
Likes
Members like helpful posts.
Public or members-only
Keep some forums open and gate others by C7 Membership tier. Pro.
Q&A boards
Turn a forum into questions with an accepted answer. Pro.
Reputation and ranks
Points, a ten-level rank ladder, and badges. Pro.
Polls
Add a poll to a topic with live result bars. Pro.
File attachments
Images and files with type and size limits. Pro.
Private messaging
A member inbox with unread counts. Pro.
Moderation and spam
Approval queue, reporting, flood limits, reCAPTCHA v3. Pro.
A forum search engines can read
Start free, upgrade for the full community
The forum core is genuinely free. Upgrade for Q&A, reputation, attachments, polls, private messaging, and tier gating.
Free, $0 CAD
Categories, forums, topics and replies, public and members-only forums, basic moderation, topic subscriptions with reply emails, likes, and clean URLs.
Free download →Pro, $50/yr
Everything in Free, plus Membership tier gating, Q&A boards, reputation and badges, attachments, polls, private messaging, @mentions and digests, the approval queue, JSON-LD schema, and the REST write API.
Get Pro →Specs
C7 Message Board technical summary.
Structure
Categories, forums, sub-forums, topics, replies.
Shortcodes
[c7_forum], [c7_forum_recent], [c7_forum_search], [c7_messages].
Engagement
Subscriptions, likes, @mentions, reputation. Pro.
Moderation
Approval queue, reporting, flood limits, reCAPTCHA. Pro.
SEO
Clean URLs free; JSON-LD schema Pro.
Licence
Free core, optional Pro subscription.
Frequently asked questions
Is C7 Message Board free?
Yes. Categories, forums, topics, replies, subscriptions, likes, and clean URLs are free, and no license ever disables the plugin.
How fast can I launch?
Click Set up my board and it publishes the forum page and seeds a starter board in one click.
Can I gate forums by membership?
Yes, with Pro. Keep some forums public and restrict others to specific C7 Membership tiers.
Does it have Q&A boards?
Yes, with Pro. Turn any forum into a question-and-answer board where the asker marks an accepted answer.
Does it work with the rest of the C7 suite?
Yes. New activity flows into C7 Notifications, and forums gate by C7 Membership tier.
