Posts about the Ultimate Member integration
View All TagsIf you run a WordPress community — a paid membership, a private network, an alumni group, a fan club — the messaging layer is half the product. Better Messages adds a single modern real-time messenger that handles BuddyPress, BuddyBoss Platform, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, and FluentCommunity from one install, with voice messages, voice and video calls, AI bots, end-to-end encryption, web push, and a native mobile app on top.
Originally published when Better Messages added the first dedicated Ultimate Member integration in v1.9.9.77 (early 2021). This post has been kept up to date as the integration matured — UM Friends, UM Followers, UM Groups, and the embedded profile Messages tab were all added in later releases.
Better Messages adds a modern real-time messenger to Ultimate Member sites, taking over every Ultimate Member surface: the profile Messages tab, the Private Message button on user profiles and the members directory, and the UM Friends / UM Followers / UM Groups extensions. If you are using the Ultimate Member Messages add-on, deactivate it after installing Better Messages to avoid a double-messenger conflict.