Spaces Engine is a Pillar plugin for the Buddyboss ecosystem with a great team behind it
Spaces Engine is the fastest development team I've experienced with a plugin. And they truly have their customers interest in mind - very obvious they love what they do and offer. I can't imagine building another BuddyBoss site without a Spaces Engine component.
While Buddyboss/Buddypress has a Member component with custom fields, profile types, and even a search & filter tool, Spaces Engine creates basically Facebook Pages for users to seperate business from personal profiles.
I just started using Spaces Engine about half a year ago - found some bugs and had some ideas about what it was lacking at the time - now I can barely keep up with the amazing features they keep coming out with.
You can easily build a very professional social network for any purpose or niche with Spaces Engine. They give you the tool - now it's up to you to run the community...
To be more specific about the functionality - they've now integrated:
- Custom fields (that can be searchable/filterable)
- Various layouts
- Total widget (sidebar) customization
- Events calendar (TEC)
- Featured & Promo space (TWO tiers!)
- Quick View
- Google Maps
- Word customization - so calling them "businesses" instead of "spaces" and "like" or "favorite" instead of "follow"
- Custom Tabs (use any page!)
As for the support - Ben is super responsive and quick. It's obvious they have a good development flow on how fast these features come out. He also is very honest about the limitations of what the buddypress platform as a whole can do vs what they can develop and build on, so as to not "count on" things that aren't possible. So far, this team has given more than promised, and looking forward to seeing Spaces Engine become a pillar plugin in the Wordpress space as it further matures!
I don't often write reviews, and use about 30-40 software tools/plugins, but this is one I am really happy about, both in functionality, team, and even fairness of price! I might sound 'fake' and selling the plugin, but they're actually really good and go above and beyond what the basic functions really should be. I'm a wp designer & developer for almost 10 years and have been setting up Buddyboss communities for almost 3 years - Spaces Engine is practically a no brainer addition that I've had the least amount of problems with a plugin ever.







