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WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints (Second Edition)

You're reading from   WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints (Second Edition) Create a variety of exciting sites for e-commerce, networking, video streaming, and more, using WordPress

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784397968
Length 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Migrating a Static Site to WordPress FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a Social Media Site 3. Creating a Network of Sites 4. Creating an E-commerce Site 5. Creating a Video Streaming Site 6. Creating a Review Site 7. Creating a Jobs Board 8. Creating a Team Communications Site 9. Creating a Gallery Site 10. Creating a Membership Site Index

Introducing BuddyPress

BuddyPress is a plugin that you install as you would any other plugin, but it gives you much more functionality than some plugins. In this chapter, we'll work through all of the BuddyPress' features, configuring each of them in turn so that your site works as you need it to.

One of the great features of BuddyPress is that you can turn its features (or components) on and off according to your need; this means that you don't have to worry about anything that isn't relevant for your site. But in this chapter, we're going to look at all of it!

Uses of BuddyPress

BuddyPress has plenty of potential uses, but here are just a few:

  • A network for a business or organization, letting colleagues communicate with each other
  • A tool for coordinating a project or collaboration
  • A community network for people interested in a specific topic
  • A network to support a meetup group, letting its members keep in touch between meetings
  • A network to promote a product or service...
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