Chapter 5. Building a Community with BuddyPress
Unlike our previous chapters, building a community will revolve around a single killer plugin—BuddyPress. The crew at Automattic, the company that owns Wordpress.com, released BuddyPress in April of 2009 in order to add basic social networking features to WordPress. Since then, BuddyPress has continued to be updated and tweaked and is now, hands down, the best community-building plugin available for WordPress.
In this chapter, you will learn:
- The basics of starting an online community
- What BuddyPress does
- How to install BuddyPress
- Setting up BuddyPress
- Leveraging other social networks to drive traffic
- BuddyPress plugins to customize your community
Before setting up BuddyPress
The most important step to building ...
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