Nameless: Open Source Community Platforms

What is Nameless?

What it is

NamelessMC is free, open-source website software for Minecraft servers, distributed under the MIT license and written in PHP. It lives in the Minecraft server ecosystem as a self-hosted content management system, with MySQL as its database and a companion in-game plugin that connects the website to a running server. The project is eleven years old, carries roughly 655 stars and 316 forks on GitHub, and is developed under the NamelessMC organisation with a public documentation site at namelessmc.com.

The concrete problem it solves is that a Minecraft community needs a website that knows who its players are, rather than a generic website with a forum bolted on. NamelessMC handles account verification through MCAssoc or the Nameless plugin, displays Java and Bedrock server status, provides forums and custom pages, and ties website groups to in-game ranks and Discord roles. Server operators get a registration, authentication and community hub in one package instead of assembling separate forum, authentication and game-integration components.

Key capabilities

Forums for community discussion, plus custom HTML pages whose access can be restricted by group.
Social logins, letting users register or sign in with services such as Discord and Google.
Minecraft integration covering Java and Bedrock server status, account verification via MCAssoc or the NamelessMC plugin, in-game registration, chat announcements, whitelisting, ban sync, and unidirectional Vault rank sync from game to website.
Discord integration through webhooks for new members, forum posts and resources, plus the Nameless-Link bot for account linking and bidirectional role synchronisation with NamelessMC groups.
A documented API for writing custom integrations, alongside a module system for deeper integration.
Template and language systems for full customisation, with translation into more than 20 languages.
Widgets that modules can place on user-facing pages, and a queue for scheduling tasks to run at a future point.
Pretty URL support, which requires mod_rewrite or a special nginx configuration.

Who uses it and how

Minecraft server owners who want a community website with forums, news and account registration tied to their game server.
Server networks running B

project readme (upstream, from github) — read inline

NamelessMC version 2

NamelessMC Banner NamelessMC is a free, easy to use & powerful website software for your Minecraft server, which includes a large range of features.

The official project website, providing support and additional downloads such as modules and templates, can be found at https://namelessmc.com/.

The following list is a brief summary of the features available in v2:

🙋 Forums
📃 Custom pages: create your own HTML pages and even restrict access to them depending on group.
👥 Social logins: allow your users to register/login with services such as Discord and Google.
🎮 Minecraft integration
- Display your Java edition or Bedrock servers statuses
- Account verification using MCAssoc or the NamelessMC plugin
- In-game plugin
  - Require in-game verification for NamelessMC accounts
  - Allow registering for accounts in-game
  - Synchronise Vault ranks with NamelessMC groups (unidirectional, game->website)
  - Display website announcements in chat
  - Whitelist players who have a website account
  - Ban players who are banned from a website
  - Display PlaceholderAPI placeholders on website user profiles or in leaderboards
🗨️ Discord integration
- Webhook: receive updates for new members, forum posts, resources, etc.
- Nameless-Link Discord bot
  - Link Discord accounts with NamelessMC accounts
  - Synchronise Discord roles with NamelessMC groups (bidirectional)
⚙️ API - Write your own integrations or use one of ours (see above)
🧩 New powerful module system allowing for further NamelessMC integration.
✏️ New template and language systems, allowing for total customisation.
✨ Pretty URL option (requires mod_rewrite or special nginx config).
🎛 Widgets: allows modules to create widgets which can be displayed on most user-facing pages and display almost anything.
⏳ Queue: schedule tasks to happen at a certain point in the future
🚩 Translated into over 20 languages

Customising Nameless

Check out this wiki article for the Module Developer Documentation.
Developer documentation is coming soon for template and widget development.

Please find installation instructions on our wiki.

Support can be found in one of the following places:

Feature requests can be posted on the forum or GitHub Discussions, and bugs can be reported in the GitHub Issues tab.

Plugin

For Minecraft integration, you can install the Nameless Plugin. We offer support for BungeeCord, Paper, Spigot, Sponge and Velocity. You can find a list of features and installation instructions in the plugin readme.

Translations

NamelessMC translations are kindly provided by the community. Please note, not all translations may be up-to-date. Progress for the core module is shown below.

If you would like to assist with NamelessMC development by translating to your language, please create an account on translate.namelessmc.com. To discuss with fellow translators, visit the NamelessMC Translators Discord server.

Translation progress

Contributing

Please see the contributing document for information on how to contribute to NamelessMC.

Security Policy

The security policy for NamelessMC can be found here.

Special Thanks

All NamelessMC contributors.

Frequently asked questions

Is Nameless free to use?

Nameless is open source under the MIT licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does Nameless do?

NamelessMC is a free, easy to use & powerful website software for your Minecraft server, which includes a large range of features.

What is Nameless written in?

Nameless is primarily written in PHP. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/NamelessMC/Nameless, and it has 656 GitHub stars.