How To Build A Community Website With BuddyPress

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BuddyPress provides a great place to meet and become buddies

  • Do you want to build an online community similar to Facebook except on your own domain?
  • Do you want members to register and have their details automatically remembered?
  • Do you want members to interact with each other in a private or public setting?

Recently I was asked to build a social networking (community) website for an organization so new members could register, interact between each other and also create their own groups based on their interests.

Although WordPress in a great content management system (CMS) which enables anyone to register and remember their login details, it doesn’t contain social networking features by default. The solution is to install and configure the BuddyPress Plugin.

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