ForumKitt – Community Forum Platform

ForumKitt is a self-hosted PHP community forum platform that lets you create and manage your own online discussion community. It brings discussions, member profiles, private messaging, events, resource sharing, and paid memberships together in one platform.

Designed for creators, businesses, and organisations, ForumKitt gives administrators control over their community, branding, membership settings, content, and moderation.

Discussion and Community Management

Create discussion categories, forums, and tags. Members can publish threads, reply to discussions, ask questions, create polls, share showcases, and interact through reactions, votes, and mentions.

Member Engagement

Encourage participation with points, levels, badges, leaderboards, member following, personal feeds, private messages, and live notifications.

Membership and Monetization

Offer monthly, yearly, or lifetime paid memberships. The platform supports payment options including Stripe, PayPal, cryptocurrency, and bank transfer, along with members-only forums, resources, and events.

Events and Resource Library

Organise online, in-person, or hybrid events with RSVPs, reminders, and waitlists. Provide members with a resource library for guides, files, and downloads.

Moderation and Administration

Manage reports, approval queues, spam checks, word filters, trust levels, warnings, bans, and IP bans from the administration panel. Additional features include two-factor sign-in, CAPTCHA support, social login, APIs, and webhooks.

Customization

Customize your community with themes, colours, logos, fonts, custom pages, footer links, and language translations. Light and dark modes are also available.

ForumKitt is suitable for creators, niche communities, membership websites, professional groups, organisations, and businesses that want to operate their own discussion platform.

• Self-hosted community forum platform

• Discussion categories, forums, and tags

• Threaded or chronological replies

• Rich text editor with image, video, and code support

• Questions and accepted answers

• Polls, showcases, announcements, and custom post types

• Search with filters

• Member profiles and activity

• Points, levels, badges, and leaderboards

• Reactions, votes, and @mentions

• Member following and personal feeds

• Private messaging

• Live notifications and email digests

• Monthly, yearly, and lifetime paid memberships

• Stripe and PayPal payment support

• Cryptocurrency and bank transfer payment options

• Members-only forums, resources, and events

• Advertisement placements

• Events with RSVPs, reminders, and waitlists

• Online, in-person, and hybrid events

• Resource library for guides and downloads

• Reports and content approval queue

• Spam checks, word filters, and link rules

• Trust levels, warnings, bans, and IP bans

• Two-factor authentication and CAPTCHA

• Light and dark themes

• Custom colours, logos, and fonts

• Custom pages and footer links

• Multilingual support

• Admin dashboard

• Web installer and one-command updates

• Google, GitHub, Facebook, and GitLab social sign-in

• REST API and webhooks

• PHP 8.3 or newer

• MySQL 8

• MariaDB 10.4 or newer

• PostgreSQL 13 or newer

• SQLite 3.35 or newer

• Required PHP extensions:

  • intl

  • fileinfo

  • zip

  • mbstring

• Cron job configured to run every minute

• Shared hosting, VPS, or cloud server

• Web server and database environment compatible with the selected database

Installation: Use the built-in web installer to configure the application. Refer to the official documentation for installation and update instructions.