Thank You for downloading PeepSo!

PeepSo Free Bundle is a collection of two PeepSo plugins: Photos, Media together with our Gecko Theme, all of which used to be exclusive to paid PeepSo Bundles. This Bundle is completely free: it’s not a time limited trial, and it does not require a credit card or even giving us your email. Just what you need to get started. Completely free, no strings attached.

Simply install & activate PeepSo Foundation, head to PeepSo > Installer and select Free Bundle – from here you will be able to install and activate other PeepSo add-ons. Some advanced plugin features are only available in the paid PeepSo Bundles.

Why PeepSo Free Bundle?

In short – you’ll have everything you need to get a wonderful community started & working!

In long – we have included the most important features carefully designed by PeepSo, to provide the utmost comfort and functionality both for your setup and your usersโ€™ experience.

Install PeepSo. Go to PeepSo -> Installer in your backend. Activate PeepSo Free Bundle. Done.

It’s that easy.

Unlike other free offers out there, weโ€™ve gone above and beyond for our users. You also get unparalleled stability and everything works out-of-the-box.

Accordingly, our paid bundles had received the same treatment when it comes to the amount of features and affordability. And if you decide to upgrade, whenever that might be, the transition will be seamless.

See how we reward your interest in PeepSo!

Included in PeepSo Free Bundle

User Profiles

Activity Stream

Reactions

Hashtags

Blog

Markdown

Polls

WordFilter

VIP

GIPHY

Email & Notifications

Widgets

Branding

Photos

Videos

Gecko Theme

Support

Functionality

User Profiles

Avatars and Cover Images

Users can set their own avatars and cover images.

Customizable Profiles

Profiles come with custom fields that users can fill with information about themselves.

Profile Settings

Users can set all of their notification and visibility preferences.

Profile Likes

Users can like other users’ profiles.

Responsive

Fully responsive design.

Profile Page
User Profile Fields

Custom Profile Fields

Create custom profile fields for your community members: birthday fields, multiple select, single select, date, URL, country and more. Everything is done on the same page without the need to save and refresh. On the front end, the user can edit their profile fields smoothly and seamlessly one by one.

Registration

Customize your own registration form with Custom Profile Fields.

Privacy

Set default privacy to profile fields, allow or disallow changing it to users.

Customize Default Fields

Customize default PeepSo fields, for example you can add more gender options.

Custom Profile Field Types

Multi select, Single select, Email, Date, Text, URL, Location, Country, Separator.

PRACTICAL DESIGN

Activity Stream

Activity Stream is the plaza of your community and we made sure to keep it presentable and fully functional, so your users will always keep track of everything going on and maintain engagement.

Activity Posts

Users can write Posts on Activity Stream and Profiles.

Privacy

3 default Privacy settings for users’ content: Public, Site Members, Only Me.

Nested Comments

Comments under Posts are nested so your users never lose track of the conversations.

Pinned Posts

Admins can pin posts to the top of the Activity Stream โ€“ these are great for making announcements.

User Hover Cards

When hovering over a user name (or tapping on mobile), it shows a hover card with user’s profile summary.

Reporting

Users can report content they donโ€™t agree with or find offensive. Admins get notified about it.

PeepSo Activity Stream

Reactions

Say more than a thousand Likes. Reactions on stream posts with emotional message such as Love, Laugh, Wink and much more. It features a built-in set of Reactions with a robust admin panel that lets you customize everything, add your own, change the icons, text and more.

More than ‘like’

Add custom reactions to your community so they can react appropriately to user Posts.

Onsite Notifications

Customize Reaction notification text.

Email Notifications

Plugin hooks in email notifications and adjusts according to chosen reaction.

Default reactions

Built-in set of Reactions immediately ready to use.

Your Own Reactions

Upload your own custom image โ€“ .PNG, .SVG or even an animated .GIF

Reactions on Posts and notifications
PeepSo activity stream filtering by a hashtag

#Hashtags

Comes with the ability to use hashtags on any PeepSo Post – whether theyโ€™re made by users on activity stream or in *groups. They will be counted and added up, but posts will keep their privacy settings. Using hashtags in no way compromises privacy. Each tag is counted one time per post. If you add the same tag ten times in one post, its usage will still be counted as only once.

Hashtag search is built-in. You can search either by clicking a hashtag or by using the search field. Search also indicates to members what are the minimum and maximum character counts for hashtags. Search results will only show posts users are allowed to see; post privacy is fully respected.

*Groups plugin isn’t included in the PeepSo Free Bundle. PeepSo Ultimate Bundle does include it. See our pricing

Hashtag Search

Apart from the regular search in PeepSo, you can combine the search with searching for hashtags to narrow down posts even further.

Filtering

When filtering by hashtag, it’s automatically added to postbox for easier post creation.

Configuration

Configure it to your liking, minium to maximum length hashtags and more.

Blog Posts

Integrate your Blog with your Community. Add Blog Posts tab to user profiles, featuring blog entries created by your community members. Automatically create a new PeepSo activity stream post. It is also capable of creating a PeepSo activity stream item each time a new WordPress post is published. This includes regular blog posts. CPTs (custom post types) are not supported at this time, although they can be easily added with custom code.

An activity stream item is created only once, no matter how many times you re-publish the related item. This does not include the ability to create blog posts on the frontend. However, it does include integrations with a 3rd party plugins which allow doing it right from user profiles.

Blog Posts within user profiles

Activity Stream Integration

Automatically create a corresponding Post on Community Stream when a new blog post is published.

Profile Integration

Display usersโ€™ blog posts in their profiles.

Reactions and Comments

WordPress blog posts can be reacted on and commented on. Comments and reactions are synced with the corresponding community posts.

Author boxes

Beautiful author boxes under blog posts.

Markdown formatting

Markdown

This is a plugin that we have been looking forward to. We needed a way to easily and safely format text within our own community, so we could answer questions and provide well formatted answers at the same time.

It makes a big difference, especially when you have to deal with code snippets or at least put emphasis on certain parts of your post or comment. Get to know more about Markdown from our Community.

Text Formatting

It can be used in both Posts, Comments and profile fields throughout PeepSo.

Inline links

Full support for inline links in posts, comments and profile fields.

Code

Now you can include inline code with syntax highlighting.

Lists

It also comes with the possibility of creating ordered lists.

Polls plugin within PeepSo PostBox and on stream

Polls

Post a question for others to vote on! Polls plugin allows you and your community to create polls in posts. Polls can be placed in the main activity stream, in usersโ€™ profiles and even in *Groups.

๏ปฟUsers can cast their votes once per poll. The design is sleek and simple, and because itโ€™s fully responsive, it looks great on mobile as well as on desktops. Logged out users can see polls in posts, but canโ€™t vote or see the poll results. They are prompted to login so they could vote and see the results. With the use of User Limits plugin, you are able to decide which users can create Polls in your community.

*Groups plugin isn’t included in the PeepSo Free Bundle. PeepSo Ultimate Bundle does include it. See our pricing

Who can create Polls?

Admins can decide whether regular users can create Polls.

Multi-Select Polls

Let users create polls with a multiple select options.

Single Select Polls

Let users create polls with a single select options.

Ask away everywhere

Polls can be attached to User Status Updates and added to *Group Status Updates.

Polls results

After casting a vote, users can see the poll results.

Word Filter Configuration

WordFilter

Filter out any kind of unwanted language. WordFilter plugin gives your community peace of mind. Whether your community has a young audience or you just donโ€™t want to show any profanity in your communityโ€™s posts or comments, PeepSo โ€“ WordFilter plugin keeps your content family-friendly.

What To Filter Out

Decide which words and phrases to filter out.

Status Updates

Decide whether to apply censorship on Status Updates.

Censorship Rendering

Decide how you want the censored words to look like.

Comments

Decide whether to apply censorship in Comments.

Chat

When Chat plugin is installed and WordFilter enabled, unwanted words and phrases are removed from chat conversations automatically.

VIP

Assign custom badges to users. The VIP plugin lets you assign a special icon to users who deserve to stand out. This icon is displayed either before or after the userโ€™s name on every membership list. Youโ€™ll be able to mark users as VIPs or as staff members, exactly as we do for moderators in our PeepSo Community.

This plugin is a part of PeepSo Core and is fully integrated into the Friends, Chat and *Groups plugins. Wherever your community members are listed, the icon will appear alongside their name.

*Groups plugin isn’t included in the PeepSo Free Bundle. PeepSo Ultimate Bundle does include it. See our pricing

Default VIP Icons

Comes with a set of 8 default VIP icons.

VIP Icons on All User Listings

VIP Icons show in all user listings throughout PeepSo and its plugins.

Your Own VIP Icons

Upload your own custom image, either in .PNG or .SVG format.

VIP icons next to the name of the user

VIP Icons Placement

Decide to show VIP icon in front or after userโ€™s name.

VIP Names

Name your VIP icons to your liking, use it to group users, make your staff stand out etc.

Giphy integration for PeepSo activity stream

GIPHY Integration

Send GIPHY gifs in comments and chat. GIPHY is the best way to search, share, and discover GIFs on the Internet. Like other search engines, most of their content comes from indexing based on the best and most popular GIFs and search terms across the web.

Now the whole vast library of GIFs is available to your community. GIFs from GIPHY can be added to comments under posts, as well as shared via chat. Itโ€™s a great way to react to a post or a message.

Search

Quickly find the GIPHY GIFs you want by typing any keyword.

Chat

Send GIPHY GIFs in chat in either one-on-one or group conversations.

GIPHY API

Weโ€™ve been working with GIPHY and weโ€™ve made sure that you donโ€™t need to apply for the key. It just works on any domain name.

Comments

Send GIPHY GIFs in comments under Status Posts.

Live On-site and Email Notifications

Post Comment

Sent when someone comments on usersโ€™ posts.

User Reply Comment

Sent when someone replies to usersโ€™ comments.

Comment Reaction

Sent when someone reacts to usersโ€™ comments.

Auto Scroll and Highlight

When a notification is clicked, it takes the user directly to the relevant content, and highlights it.

Nearly 30 notification types

There are nearly 30 on-site and corresponding email notification types within PeepSo and its plugins.

Onsite Notifications in PeepSo
Email content configuration view

Other Email Notifications

Configurable emails

Admin can configure and edit the content of email notifications sent to users.

Email Verification Email

Sent after the registration to confirm userโ€™s email address.

New User Registration

Sent to Admin when a new user registration needs approval.

Email HTML Overrides

Admin has complete control over how notification emails look like, to match the style of Your Community.

Widgets

Widgets are a staple of PeepSo features. They are fully customizable and you can decide on their content, placement and naming. They can be very useful for easy presentation of important aspects of your community.

PeepSo Profile

Shows userโ€™s notifications, avatar, profile and community navigation.

Online Members

Shows members who are online at the moment.

Latest Members

Shows newest community members and displays their avatars.

UserBar

Shows user’s name, navigation and notifications anywhere on the site.

Hashtags

It shows a tag cloud of the most used hashtags in posts throughout the entire community. The widget has 3 display options with various sorting methods.

PeepSo Widgets

“Powered by PeepSo” Branding

PeepSo Free Bundle comes with non-invasive and subtle branding in the form of backlinks leading back to PeepSo.com. These links appear in a couple of places, starting with the bottom of the page, under postbox and comment boxes, as well as email footers. 

If you wish to make your community completely White Label, consider our PeepSo Ultimate Bundle! You can make your community completely your own and fully professional, with your own brand to show off to the world.

PeepSo postbox

Photos

Upload photos and create albums in profiles and *groups. Photos is a must-have plugin that lets members upload images to the Stream, *Groups, Messages and Chat. It invigorates communities with pictures that people love to see and share. When clicked, the photos open in a beautiful theater view window, allowing members to comment, react and show them to their friends.

The plugin also adds a Photos tab to profile pages and to *Groups. It comes with 2 widgets: My Photos and Community Photos that admins can place anywhere. Profile Photo Albums, *Groups Photo Albums, GIF support and much more!

*Groups plugin isn’t included in the PeepSo Free Bundle. PeepSo Ultimate Bundle does include it. See our pricing

Photos in Status Posts

Upload Photos to Posts, Comments, Profiles and *Groups.

Community Photos Widget

Shows latest photos of your entire community (photos show respecting their privacy settings).

My Photos Widget

Shows users’ latest photos. When placed in PeepSo Widget position on user profile, it shows user’s photos to profile visitors.

Amazon S3

Photos plugin comes with a built-in Amazon S3 Integration.

PeepSo Free Bundle doesnโ€™t allow offloading photos to Amazon S3. PeepSo Ultimate Bundle does. See our pricing

PeepSo Photos plugin showing photos in widgets and stream
PeepSo Photos plugin showing a photo in theater mode

Theater

Photos are shown in theater view with photo description and comments on the right.

GIF support

Users can upload GIFs to Status Updates and in Comments.

Status Updates

Optional automatic status updates when a user changes their avatar or cover images.

Photos in Chat

Users can upload photos in Chat conversations.

Photo Albums

Create Photo Albums in User Profiles and *Groups.

Image Quality

Control the image quality of photos and their thumbnails to optimize their file sizes.

Daily Upload Limits

Limit the number of photos that users can upload per day.

Maximum Photos Per User

Define maximum number of photos and disk space per user.

More

There are more configuration and settings options available.

Photo Album creation
Videos can be uploaded from activity stream and profile page

Videos

Liven up your site with shared Videos! They will show on the Stream, on profile feeds and in Blog posts. Connect your users with each other and the world; videos can be linked in posts and can be liked, reacted and commented on, generating engagement and interaction.

Videos will show in theater view, and they can play inline with posts. You can also link videos from WordPress supported providers such as YouTube, Vimeo etc.

Full support for live streaming via YouTube and other supported providers. Just copy the link to your live stream and post it in the PeepSo video sharing feature in postbox, and youโ€™re done.

The plugin puts the Video tab on profile pages and within *Groups, and it displays all the videos members have uploaded. It also comes with widgets showing user content and community-wide video content: My Media and Community Media.

*Groups plugin isn’t included in the PeepSo Free Bundle. PeepSo Ultimate Bundle does include it. See our pricing

Upload Videos

Allow uploading directly to your site.

PeepSo Free Bundle doesnโ€™t allow uploading videos. PeepSo Ultimate Bundle does. See our pricing

Sharing Videos

Allow sharing videos directly to your site.

Amazon Integration

Built-in integration with Amazon Transcoder, so the strain of converting videos does not fall on your server.

PeepSo Free Bundle doesnโ€™t allow offloading videos and audios to Amazon. PeepSo Ultimate Bundle does. See our pricing

Audio Uploads

Upload audio files right to your community. Perfect for podcasts, music artists and more.

PeepSo Free Bundle doesnโ€™t allow offloading audios. PeepSo Ultimate Bundle does. See our pricing

Supported Providers

Videos plugin supports all major providers such as YouTube, Vimeo and others.

Community Media Widget

Shows latest Videos of your entire community (videos show depending on their privacy setting).

Live Stream Videos

Support for Live Streaming via YouTube and other supported providers.

My Videos Widget

Shows users’ latest videos. When placed in PeepSo Widget position on user profile, it shows user’s videos to profile visitors.

Share Videos

Share videos to User Profiles and *Groups.

Video previews

Generate video previews on mouse hover.

PeepSo Free Bundle doesnโ€™t allow video previews. PeepSo Ultimate Bundle does. See our pricing

Theatre video view with comments on the right.
Audio & Videos Configuration

Comprehensible configuration

Configuration with checks for server setup compatibility, alongside detailed explanation of necessary requirements.

Last.fm integration

Last.fm integration allows to automatically pull album cover art for audio files.

PeepSo Free Bundle doesnโ€™t allow this feature. PeepSo Ultimate Bundle does. See our pricing

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OUR BELOVED WORDPRESS THEME

Gecko Theme

In our PeepSo Free Bundle, we are giving you our Gecko Theme with full access!

Gecko Theme was designed with PeepSo First approach, to enable us to make the most of PeepSo as a Social Networking Platform. It is specially crafted to extend the possibilities of PeepSo, while making sure that the entire site looks and works wonderfully. It integrates with everything; Geckoโ€™s customization power is matched only by its beauty. No need to search for an appropriate theme for your site – you will already have one that possesses all the bells and whistles for the best presentation.

Gecko Theme can be used as a fully functional standalone WordPress theme and does not require PeepSo. You can opt for another from another source with some adjustments. However, we strongly recommend trying out what weโ€™ve already provided. Most of Geckoโ€™s features are so refined, the likes of it can be found only in paid themes.

01

Made by PeepSo Team

Gecko is the only theme created by the same team that brought you PeepSo and its plugins.

02

Native PeepSo Integration

Designed to take PeepSo and its plugins to another level, with additional features which 3rd party themes just can’t provide.

03

Always Up To Date

Because Gecko Theme and PeepSo are made by the same team, you will always have a theme compatible with the latest version of PeepSo.

Customizer

Gecko Theme comes with the in-house built customizer with sliders and options that make changes to your site in real time. It does not replace the standard WordPress customizer; however, all Gecko-related settings have been moved into our own Gecko Customizer.

Theme Presets

Create your own, unique layout presets. Change colors, font or sidebar size, and much more. Optionally, it is possible to allow your users to choose which preset to use in their profile preferences.

Site Identity And Typography

Set a separate logo for desktop and mobile view, change the font family, font size and color, as well as link colors.

Paint It How You Want it

Gecko Theme Customizer allows you to change colors for almost anything. From backgrounds, fonts, links, buttons, borders and separators, all the way to the tiniest details like system messages and alerts.

Add Shadows, Control Borders

When standard colors are not enough, add a touch of shadows or curved borders. Youโ€™re in control of the border radius and shadow intensity.

Gorgeous Header

Gecko comes with an eye-pleasing, versatile header that can contain navigation, activity search, PeepSo live notifications, and more.

Fully Customizable

Add menus, including menu alignment and menu position. All immediately accessible and available in Theme Customizer.

Widget Positions (in header)

You can place widgets in the Search and Header positions to include additional navigation, shopping carts or more.

PeepSo Integration

01. Beautiful User Profiles

Donโ€™t like the default look of profile page in PeepSo? Gecko Theme gives you more options to choose from. Simply pick the one that best suits your design idea. If that is not enough, control the position of the user avatar and its size, as well as profile cover height.

06. Paint The Chat

Chose the colors for the chat plugin so it can really “pop” from the rest of the site.

05. *Group Avatar and Cover Sizes

Change the sizes and height of *group avatars and covers.

*Groups plugin isn’t included in the PeepSo Free Bundle. PeepSo Ultimate Bundle does include it. See our pricing

02. Customize It

Change the colors of PeepSo to match the style of Gecko. Control the fonts in activity stream and postbox, change the colors of these elements too.

03. Pinned Posts Style

Highlight pinned posts by changing the border size and color to make them stand out more.

04. Photos In Stream

Change the width of individual photos or the entire gallery.

Widgets

Widget Styles

Comes with 4 styles for your widgets: none, Box, Bordered and Gradient. These styles can be applied to any widget.

Multiple Widget Positions

Header, Top, Bottom, Footer and Sidebars widget positions let you surround the content from every side. You can easily customize the number of columns in each position as well.

Custom Gradient

Apart from obvious color customizations in text, links and other, Gecko comes with the option to customize Gradient colors of the widget backgrounds.

Amazing Landing Page

Create amazing landing pages for your site. Add Title, Call To Action text, Featured Image. All within your Page Settings. Create as many landing pages as you like.

Third-Party Integrations

The utmost of Gecko’s potential shines through its Integration capabilities. If you wish to become an advertiser or affiliate, a successful entrepreneur, and develop your business and brand on your own site, do consider upgrading to a multitude of features that our Ultimate Bundle has to offer.

Check our pricing here

WooCommerce

Gecko comes with a beautiful WooCommerce integration that’s fully customizable too.

Cart In Header

Full support for cart in header so your clients never lose track of it.

Gorgeous Product Display

Your online store has never looked better. Out of the box stunning and clean design.

Easy Digital Downloads

Selling digital goods? Great! Gecko also supports Easy Digital Downloads.

Cart In Header

Full support for cart in header of the side.

Beautiful Product Pages

Product listings and single product views come beautifully styled out of the box.

LearnDash Integration

LearnDash support is also built into our theme. You can create gorgeous online courses with Gecko and LearnDash.

Standalone theme

Gecko Theme is completely standalone and does not need PeepSo to function properly. With PeepSo, you can have a seamless experience between community, blog and other parts of your WordPress site.

Responsive

Works great on phones, tablets and other mobile devices.

Flexible Layout

Fluid or fixed width, different sidebar sizes, columns gap.

Browser Support

Supports all modern desktop browsers.

Page Builders Support

Beaver Builder and Elementor are recommended at this point.

Lightweight

Super-fast loading times unobstructed by redundant scripts.

Customizable

Easy to adapt to your liking, whether configuration or overrides.

Hide Admin Bar

Gecko Theme does this automatically for you. No need to install additional plugins.

Gutenberg Support

Full Gutenberg Support plus an addition of its own Gecko: Container block that allows grouping other blocks.

Footer Customization

Amongst many, Gecko Theme comes with options to customize your site’s footer. Up to 5 columns for widgets, footer menu position, color options and more.

Functionality

For you as the Admin, intuitive Backend is incredibly important. It has never been easier to set up every single segment of your site and keep track of every activity.

Read More

Set the length of posts and comments after which a โ€œread moreโ€ link should be shown.

Terms and Conditions

Built-in setting for Terms and Conditions that need to be accepted upon registration.

Privacy Policy

Option for setting Privacy Policy that needs to be accepted upon registration.

Members Listing

View the list of all members, with built-in search and filtering.

Language Support

You can set the language of your community in WordPress settings. See which languages are supported on our page at WordPress.org. Our Language Support also enables the use of RTL (right-to-left) languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.

Exit Gateway

Exit Gateway for URLs can be enabled to warn your users that theyโ€™re about to leave your site, when they click on an external link shared within your community.

Security

Built-in security configuration, preventing brute force attacks and more.

GDPR

Built-in GDPR Compliance settings to help with making your community compliant.

Ban Hammer

Possibility to ban users temporarily or permanently.

For in-depth use of all features and customizations, please refer to our very detailed Documentation, as well as helpful and informative PeepSo YouTube videos!

Technical Support

If you need Technical Support for PeepSo Free Bundle, please do check our Documentation and our YouTube channel for feature highlights and tutorial videos!


You are free to contact us anytime for any inquiries you might have, and we will remind you to read our easily accessible Documentation and watch our videos.

Do not hesitate to watch our instructional videos! We promise that it will be time well spent on learning how to use PeepSo and some segments of WordPress in general.


Our Premium Technical Support (which we’re very proud of!) is reserved the PeepSo Ultimate Bundles. Our paid content is the bread & butter of our work and the fuel that keeps us going! Please upgrade to one of our paid bundles if you wish to experience the best that PeepSo has to offer.

Get Your Ultimate Bundle

Enjoy your PeepSo Free Bundle!

When youโ€™re ready to receive more features, full support and utmost flexibility, consider getting our Ultimate Bundle and all its benefits!

Create your perfect community. Just the way you always wanted to.

PeepSo and its plugins make it So Easy.

Ultimate Bundle โ€“ 1 Year

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Great start for Your Community

Get access to every single plugin and theme we have on offer

1 year of free updates

1 year of 24/7 * Technical Support

1 year access to future plugins (if any)

Early Access Program

100% 14 days Money Back Guarantee!

If you realize you donโ€™t like PeepSo over the next 14 days after your purchase, weโ€™ll be happy to give you a full refund.

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Super-light and free social networking plugin for WordPress