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Social Media for Wordpress: Build Communities, Engage Members and Promote Your Site

You're reading from Social Media for Wordpress: Build Communities, Engage Members and Promote Your Site A quicker way to build communities, engage members, and promote your site with this book and ebook

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2012

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781847199805

Length 166 pages

Edition Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

WordPress

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Michael Kuhlmann

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Social Media for WordPress

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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1. Preface

1. Share it the Easy Way

2. Building the Social Network: BuddyPress and WP Symposium FREE CHAPTER

3. Community Forums for the Masses

4. VIP Memberships

5. Keeping Up with the Stats

6. Managing your Site

7. Beyond the Plugins Towards True Engagement

Further Reading

Pop quiz Answers

Chapter 2—Building the Social Network: BuddyPress and WP Symposium

Timeline of Facebook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Facebook
At last—The full story of how Facebook was founded http://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg—hacker, dropout, CEO http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/115/open_features-hacker-dropout-ceo.html?page=0%2C1
BP Privacy—History and lessons learned from developing a Major BuddyPress component http://jeffsayre.com/2011/01/19/bp-privacy-history-and-lessons-learned-from-developing-a-major-buddypress-component/
Gamification—How competition is reinventing business, marketing, and everyday life http://mashable.com/2011/07/28/gamification/

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Authors (1)

Michael Kuhlmann

Michael Kuhlmann

Michael Kuhlmann is a writer, entrepreneur and web designer who specializes in WordPress and BuddyPress development. He has worked nearly 10 years in the publishing industry and has written a handful of tutorials spanning topics from print design to web design. To date, his BuddyPress themes have been downloaded more than 100,000 times. He serves as the director of web design for Thompson Media Group, a publishing company, where he oversees seven brands and their respective web properties and marketing collateral. In 2008, he co-founded AvenueK9.com, a pet site catering to canine lovers and their furry friends, which garnered the attention of The Huffington Post and Perez Hilton. His latest offering comes in the form of a WordPress hosting service JoinEVO.com, which simplifies the process of running a self-hosted WordPress site. Prior to becoming a web designer, he served as managing and news editor for a San Diego newspaper. His work has been published in The New York Times, The San Diego Business Journal and The San Diego Union-Tribune among other notable publications.

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