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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

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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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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

Easing your users into BuddyPress

Taking the path with the least amount of resistance roughly translates into disabling several BuddyPress components. There is a good chance you probably went through the BuddyPress installation wizard and enabled every single component. You may have even gone the extra step to install bbPress for forum integration, but what we'll do now is curb some of that functionality in favor of polishing one component—Extended Profiles, the extra tidbits of information users fill out about themselves like age, location, and so forth.

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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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