Building Your Community with BuddyPress

The author of BuddyPress For Dummies, Lisa Sabin-Wilson, takes you on a tour through this year's hottest open source product on the market:  BuddyPress, which is a suite of core plugins for the WordPress platforms that enables any web site owner the ability to run a fully interactive, social network on their own web site.

Lisa introduces web site owners to BuddyPress – a suite of plugins available for the WordPress platform that is rich with features that allow you to take your WordPress site to the next level by engaging a community on your own web site through dynamic features such as:

• Extended Profiles
• Friends
• Private Messaging
• Activity Wires
• Blog Tracking
• Status Updates
• …and more!

This workshop introduces you to the features available, aimed toward helping you make the decision if BuddyPress is right for your site, and has features that you would like to add to enhance and grow a social community on your own domain.

This workshop is sponsored by Peer 1 Hosting

Speakers:

Lisa Sabin-Wilson Owner, E.Webscapes Design Studio & Author, Wordpress for Dummies, BuddyPress For Dummies