Description
SureDash transforms your WordPress site into a vibrant community hub. Create a unified login and dashboard experience to boost user engagement—all within your WordPress environment. Unlike standalone platforms like Circle, SureDash integrates seamlessly with your existing WordPress setup. Keep full control over your data and customize the experience to fit your brand.
Key Benefits
- Seamless Integration: Enhance your WordPress site with community features.
- Customizable Design: Tailor the dashboard and features to match your brand’s look and feel.
- Scalable Solution: Add new spaces as needed.
Free Features
- Custom login and registration forms
- Visual customizer for dashboard layout
- User profiles
- Activity feeds for updates and engagement
- Discussion forums with threaded replies (only site admin can post, but all members can comment)
- Multiple discussions for focused sub-communities
- Giphy integration for animated GIFs
SureDash Premium
- Learning management system course builder
- Enable users to post in discussion feeds
- Private discussion feeds
- Resource library (coming soon)
- Events (coming soon)
- Support from our team
Perfect For
- Membership sites
- Online courses
- Customer support hubs
- Niche communities
Links
Blocks
This plugin provides 8 blocks.
- Portal: Profile Display portal profile.
- Portal: Home Display entire community portal.
- Portal: Content Display portal content.
- Portal: Space Title Display portal title.
- Portal: Identity Display portal identity.
- Portal: Navigation Display aside portal navigation.
- Portal: Notification Display portal notification.
- Portal: Search Display portal search.
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/suredashdirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
- Navigate to SureDash > Settings to configure your dashboard.
FAQ
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How can I report a security bug?
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We take plugin security extremely seriously. If you discover a security vulnerability, please report it in a safe and responsible manner.
You can report the issue through our Bug Bounty Program. We collaborate with Patchstack to provide opportunities for researchers to report vulnerabilities. The Patchstack team will help validate, triage, and handle any reported security issues.
Reviews
4, Xunetu de 2025
I wrote the 1 star review a few days ago but it got deleted as it was labled to be a “conspiracy theory” – go figure. So here we go again.
I loved the idea behind this community plugin, the use of interactivity api, access to gutenbert, ability to dynamically show embedded query loop results, but alas, as everything else that came from Bransormforce, this product too resulted in a flop.
This is now almost normal Brainstormforce (aka Sure Crafted) company behavior. The pattern is always the same: hyped up marketing, followed by a half baked product and poor custome support. The product eventually gets abandonded and they move on to a new cash cow.
SureDash, as is today, is not functional, not production ready. Even Brainstormforce is not using it to run their community and is in istead using facebook community. (on the other side of the aisle, you have Fluent Community running their community on their own product).
Even though v1 is now out, the product is still missing basic features, which are by the way marketed on their website. To illustrate, users cannot even edit their own comments, which is a basic basic functionality. Additionally, you need to purchase other Sure product to make a so so working community. If you want to manage membership, you need to buy Sure Members. To add course videos, buy Presto Player. To assing a badge, buy Sure Triggers (aka OttoKit). The features seam to be seggmented on purpose to generate mroe sales for the company. And then talk about bugs, which are typical for brainstormforce products. And when users write a critical posts in their facebook group, the posts get deleted and users banned. Again, typical brainstormforce behavior.
Judging by the current dev pace, suredash is at least 2-3 years from being production ready. If the company survives that long…
So, if you are looking for a community plugin, look elsewhere.
1, Xunetu de 2025
Updating my review and adding another star as apparently it hurt their feelings. Bottom line it is just not very good. Test it and see for yourself.I will certainly change my review again if the sure team deliver.
1, Xunetu de 2025
UPDATED REVIEW: July 2025I changed the review from 1 star to 2 as there have been some fast releases recently to fix things that are broken. But still here we are in July 2025 after purchasing an alpha product in November 2024. We all knew going in that it would be unusable until March 2025 or there abouts….but still to be so lacking is a bit shocking. As an LMS or a Community it is not there yet.
1, Xunetu de 2025
If you need to decide between this plugin and fluent community, here are a few takeaways:
SD is more flexible and open (follows wp architecture) but depends on paid suremembers plugin for fine access management, is less focused (it is not a community first plugin, the team relying on facebook for its communities, and its primary purpose is less clear), the fb group is not very active and many posts are declined publication.
FC is more mature, feature rich, enhanced by the fluent ecosystem (namely free version of fluent crm for fine access rules), more ambitious as a community platform (upcoming dedicated app), has a more friendly and active community (hosted by the plugin itself) but integrates less easily with the rest of your site
If you are in a hurry and need a community first plugin, go the fluent way. If you need optimized integration with the rest of your site or the other sureplugins and have some patience, SD is a good choice, given the track record of the team behind it.
In the end I bought both at launch price and would have bought Suremembers if my request for a special discount for SD clients had not been ignored. In the meantime, I compromise with a free 3rd party plugin for finer access management. Let’s see how fast SD can become a fun and efficient plugin to use…
20, Xunu de 2025
The application lets you design bespoke communities, use a builder of your choice with a number of great features like discussions, but also courses among others. Support is very quick and all issues are addressed promptly. Thank you
17, Xunu de 2025
1.0 is finally out. I really hope this marks a turning point and that the team can start living up to the vision they shared from the beginning. I wanted this to work—I still do—but after all this time, it’s hard not to feel let down.
I joined SureDash early with genuine optimism. The idea of a native WordPress solution for communities and directories was compelling, and I was happy to support a product in development—as long as there was clear communication, steady progress, and a sense of direction.
But after several months, version 1.0 took much longer than expected. Timelines kept slipping, and at some point, updates stopped altogether. The lack of communication made it difficult to stay confident in the process.
If the pace picks up and things improve significantly, I’ll be happy to revise this review.
To the SureDash and Brainstorm Force team:
Please communicate more. Your early backers believed in your product and your long-term vision—and we still want to. But that requires transparency and consistency.
If you want to retain the trust of your early adopters, now’s the time to refocus. Don’t spread yourselves thin launching new tools while others remain half-baked.
Suredash can be an amazing plugin. Let’s make it happen.
Contributors & Developers
“SureDash” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.3 – 26th June 2025
- Improvement: Added settings notice for Login/Registration page if site’s User Registration is disabled.
- Fix: Profile photo’s “Upload” button wraps to the next line with word wrap.
- Fix: Like & Share buttons getting hidden if comments disabled for the single space.
- Fix: GIF posting always come aside to the description text.
- Fix: Like & Share buttons getting hidden when comment setting disabled from single space.
1.0.2 – 24th June 2025
- New: Introduced Date column for SureDash Posts with sortable support in the admin dashboard.
- New: Introduced Cloudflare Turnstile reCAPTCHA support for the login and registration forms.
- Improvement: Search Block – Added default SureDash Contents & Posts search support.
- Improvement: Introduced “suredash_searchable_post_types” filter to add custom post types support in the SureDash search block.
- Fix: Spectra editor assets conflicts with SureDash site-editor design setting controls.
- Fix: Single view of SureDash posts built with page builder are not appearing properly on the frontend.
- Fix: There is scroll conflicting jerk with sidebar navigation and content area.
- Fix: Button anchor link tags getting underlined with the portal styles.
- Fix: The portal homepage grid items are not center aligned on the responsive devices.
- Fix: The GIF submission in the comment section was failing.
- Fix: There was a jerk on hover transition for Home Grid card item description.
- Fix: Special and language characters were stripped from the space URL slug.
- Fix: Notification block – Drawer not opening properly on the frontend for the responsive devices.
- Fix: Opened Quick Post in new tab, refers to the improper “Back to” URL.
1.0.1 – 18th June 2025
- Fix: Bricks compatibility: WordPress post/pages build with Bricks are not viewable inside the space content.
- Kadence compatibility: Theme styles overriding the portal styles which disturbs the portal frontend design.
- Fix: Under Login/Registration admin settings the reCAPTCHA secret keys were hidden.
- Fix: Prevent video shortcodes from rendering in lesson excerpts on the course page.
- Fix: Portal frontend styles conflicts with the page builder styles, which was causing the page builder built design to break.
1.0.0 – 17th June 2025
- New: Brand new admin dashboard with better UI/UX and with lot of new features, improvements.
- New: “Enable Feeds” community setting to showcase your latest posts.
- New: “SureDash User” role introduced for the community.
- New: Introduced “Users” screen in the admin dashboard to check SureDash community users and their activities.
- New: Tightening the SureMembers <> SureDash Integration.
- New: Lesson URL is now cleaner than previous query sd-lesson parameter based URL.
- New: Introducing “Feeds” option for getting the latest updates from community portal.
- New: Layout width-style options like Normal, Full Width with Boxed, Unboxed styles.
- New: Introduced filter ‘suredash_portal_slug’ to change the ‘portal’ slug from frontend URL. (https://suredash.com/docs/customizing-the-portal-slug/)
- New: Introduced filter ‘suredash_posts_forum_prefix’ to change the prefix ‘Forum’ of posts categories.
- Improved codebase with best coding practices.
- Improvement: Enhanced accessibility in entire portal area.
- Improvement: Admin bar enabled for admin user with SureDash quick menu links.
- Improvement: Straight forward & clutter free 4 space types: Single Post/Page, Posts/Discussions, Course, Link.
- Improvement: Design options like logo setting, colors, layouts are moved to site portal-template editor.
- Improvement: Code refactor for better performance & maintainability.
- Improvement: Post submission popup improved, which gives extra room for the user to add content.
- Improvement: Refined the UI of post like, comment, share options for better user experience.
- Improvement: Refined settings, options & features for better user experience.
- Improvement: New register user is getting “SureDash User” role assigned.
- Improvement: Have ‘user-view/{user_id}’ proper URL structure for user profile view instead of ‘user-view/?id={user_id}’.
- Improvement: Design of Portal Register & Portal Login page has been improved. (https://suredash.com/docs/regenerate-default-suredash-pages/)
- Improvement: Improved design UI of cover image & cover embed showcase in posts list frontend.
- Improvement: Notification Block – Introduced a color option for the notification bell icon.
- Improvement: Added “Edit in Full Screen” button in the post-space-lesson editor to open the post in the full screen editor, which will allow third-party page builder plugins to edit the post.
- Improvement: Improved overall compatibility with Bricks theme builder, Divi, Elementor page builders.
- Improvement: For commenting, sticky login notice for non-logged in users in post quick view modal for better user experience.
- Refactor: Flows of creation spaces, space groups, content posts generation has been simplified.
- Refactor: Getting rid of “Content” & “Topic” CPTs & completely relying on single CPT “Community Posts”, which reduces the complexity of the plugin & ease for users to create community posts.
- Tweak: Highlighted content area links for better user experience.
- Fix: Portal Editor – User profile looks middle in the editor screen.
- Fix: After submitting a post, the post creation modal is not closing.
- Fix: Notification Block – ‘px’ unit added twice for notification drawer position size.
- Fix: Resolved a CSS conflict with Spectra that was causing Design Library elements to be hidden.
- Fix: Notification drawer position set out of screen in some cases.
- Fix: Post Quick View opens entire portal in iframe when post URL has ? query parameter already.
- Fix: Register & Login form input field icons not visible in logged out state.
- Fix: Register Form: Validation success & error messages overlapping with the form fields.
- Fix: On browser language change, frontend some UI item’s colors changed to default.
- Fix: Compatibility: Course grid lesson description gets dropped with GeneratePress theme.
- Fix: SureDash Posts: Cover Media Embed & Cover Media Image fields disappeared from the post editor & can’t be set.
- Fix: Astra compatibility: Blog archive Site Builder layout prevents loading of portal profile and bookmarks screens.