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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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Published in Apr 2012
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ISBN-13 9781847199805
Length 166 pages
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Social Media for WordPress
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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


BuddyPress Basics

 

1. You can set up your BP-powered site in five minutes?

Answer: A

2. The broader you keep your site, the more people you'll attract

Answer: B

While on rare occasions you can attract more people to your site by broadening the area of focus on your site; generally, the more niche you go, the better chances you have of running a popular BP-powered site.

3 All WordPress and BuddyPress plugins are free.

Answer: B

All WordPress themes and plugins are free on the official WordPress repository, but there are a handful of theme and plugin shops online that charge for premium products and support.

4. Gamification is the process of adding gaming components to engage your audience?

Answer: A

5. Integrating a Facebook with WordPress is considered bad practice?

Answer: B

With hundreds of million Facebook users already accustomed to using the Login with Facebook button, you'll lower the barrier of entry by allowing them to access your site when you integrate FB with WP.

Audience engagement

 

1. You need to use WP-FB Autoconnect to take advantage of the Achievements page?

Answer: B

While it's recommended that you use the WP-FB Autoconnect plugin on your site for greater reach, it is not a requirement of Achievements for BuddyPress.

2. Try to reward your visitors with multiple popups, as they need to be engaged

Answer: B

The last thing you want to do is bombard site visitors with incessant pop-ups. Use them sparingly for online promotions or special announcements.

3. Providing as much information as you can fit into your Welcome Page is detrimental to the success of the initial visit for a new site user

Answer: B

It's easy to fill up your Welcome page with a long list of site features and other information, but try to stick to the basics of why your site matters to your users, what type of information is available and how they can utilize it.

4. You can use any point system when you create Achievements

Answer: A

5. Progressive profiling means that you'll learn more information about your site visitors every time they log in

Answer: B

Progressive profiling means you'll learn more information about your site visitors every time they complete an action that you can track. For example, using Achievements for BuddyPress, you can get a more accurate representation of your visitor based on the achievement he or she has completed. This can occur on separate site visits as well as during the same site visit.

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