How to Create a Social Network For a Niche-Related Community

How to Create a Social Network For a Niche-Related Community, available at $44.99, has an average rating of 4.15, with 39 lectures, based on 70 reviews, and has 2031 subscribers.

You will learn about Build a beautiful, fully functional online network ready to welcome new members Create a public or private online community Work with WordPress and Buddypress Configure the various network abilities Take control of any aspect of the network as the system administrator Create a network which includes friendship connections, messaging system, groups, forums, photo and video sharing and more This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is meant for new and advanced WordPress users who want to get into the online communities world or No prior website building experience is needed or Anyone who wants to create a place where they can share thoughts, photos, videos and experiences with a group of people should take this course It is particularly useful for This course is meant for new and advanced WordPress users who want to get into the online communities world or No prior website building experience is needed or Anyone who wants to create a place where they can share thoughts, photos, videos and experiences with a group of people should take this course.

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Summary

Title: How to Create a Social Network For a Niche-Related Community

Price: $44.99

Average Rating: 4.15

Number of Lectures: 39

Number of Published Lectures: 39

Number of Curriculum Items: 39

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 39

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Build a beautiful, fully functional online network ready to welcome new members

Create a public or private online community

Work with WordPress and Buddypress

Configure the various network abilities

Take control of any aspect of the network as the system administrator

Create a network which includes friendship connections, messaging system, groups, forums, photo and video sharing and more

Who Should Attend

This course is meant for new and advanced WordPress users who want to get into the online communities world

No prior website building experience is needed

Anyone who wants to create a place where they can share thoughts, photos, videos and experiences with a group of people should take this course

Target Audiences

This course is meant for new and advanced WordPress users who want to get into the online communities world

No prior website building experience is needed

Anyone who wants to create a place where they can share thoughts, photos, videos and experiences with a group of people should take this course

An online community is a great place for people with the same interest to share their thought, experiences and stories with each other. This course will teach you how to build a social network that would allow your members to make friendship connections, to send messages to each other, to share ideas and statuses on a site-wide activity stream, and you will also learn how to create niche-related groups to make your network even more interesting. You dont need to have any former experience with WordPress and/or Buddypress, which are the platforms we will use in this course, since i show you how to use them.

Course Structure

The course is built in a Learn by Watching way, which is my favourite way of teaching and learning. I simply show you where i click and how i do everything on my screen, so you can see and imitate in your own system.

The course will take about 2 hours to complete and i suggest you watch it on a tablet if you own one, so you can put it besides your computer while you work on your community website.

Here are the steps we will go through in this course:

Website hosting – you will need one to get your platform online

WordPress installation

Adding WordPress (free) theme

Learn WordPress basics – content, menus, theme options, plugins, widgets

Buddypress installation and configuration

Network components and how to work with them

What kind of network will i learn to build

The network you will build depends on your needs. I will give you all the tools you can use in order to create a network with the most possibilities Buddypress can provide, and its yours to take what you need from it. You can build a public community for anyone to join. You can build a secret community for specific people with restricted content to make sure it stays private. You can build a half-public half-private community with the help of groups – where you can decide which ones are public, which ones are restricted and which ones are even hidden from a guest viewer.

I will teach you how to work with every component of Buddypress, and you can decide which one you need and want to use. If you dont want to let your members create friendship connections – you can deactivate this option. If you dont need groups – dont use them. If you dont want your members to be able to communicate through private messages – just dont allow it. Buddypress is such a flexible platform that you can really fit it to your needs and even change your configurations with a click of a button later on if you decide you want to add/remove a specific component.

Who should take this course?

Anyone looking for people with a common interest to talk and share thoughts with

Bloggers who want to take their blog to a new level and start an online community where they can engage with their readers

Families who want to keep in touch in a special way – by creating a private family online community where they can share photos, videos and experiences with each other

Businesses who want to raise credibility and connections with their customers by creating a warm space where they can keep in touch with them and talk a bout their products/services

Promoters of a specific product who want to promote it in a unique way and create a social network around it

Group of parents who want to create a convenient place where they can discuss about their childrens activities for example – a community for a sport team, a class, etc.

Group of friends who want to share more than words with each other by creating a (private) online community where they can communicate

Additional CostsThe only additional cost you might have (unless you already have a hosting account) is to the hosting provider. The costs vary from 4$-12$ per month depending on the company, and you should do your research about which provider would fit your website needs the most. In the course you will see how i sign up with one of the hosting companies and get a free domain for the first year.You might also be interested in getting a premium WordPress theme, but that is not a necessity – the theme we will work with in this course is free and is good enough to keep it this way and to create a beautiful website and network.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Course and to Online Communities

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Course

Lecture 2: Ideas of Online Communities You Can Build

Chapter 2: Introduction to BuddyPress

Lecture 1: What Is BuddyPress and Why You Should Create Your Community With This Platform

Lecture 2: Successful BuddyPress-Based Online Communities

Lecture 3: This is The Final Website You Will Learn to Create In This Course

Lecture 4: Exploring the community you will build – as a member

Lecture 5: Course Structure – What Are The Steps of Creating an Online Community

Chapter 3: Preparations – Hosting, Domain and WordPress Installation.

Lecture 1: Registering to a Hosting Account and Getting a Domain Name

Lecture 2: Installing WordPress on Your Website

Lecture 3: Deleting Unnecessary Plugins That The Installation Added To Our Website

Chapter 4: Start Creating Your Website with WordPress – Theme, Plugins, Menus and Widgets

Lecture 1: Installing the Free Theme We Will Work With in This Course

Lecture 2: Creating Some Static Content Pages for Your Website

Lecture 3: Adding a Blog and Creating Blog Posts of Different Categories

Lecture 4: Adding a Menu to the Website

Lecture 5: Learn How to Work with the Theme Options – Customize Your Website Look and Feel

Lecture 6: Using Widgets on the Homepage and on the Sidebar of Your Website

Chapter 5: BuddyPress – Creating an Online Community and Configuring Your Network

Lecture 1: Installing and Activating BuddyPress

Lecture 2: Configuring the Community Components – Decide Which Ones You Want to Use

Lecture 3: Configuring the Community Pages

Lecture 4: Final Settings for Configuring the Community

Chapter 6: Working with BuddyPress

Lecture 1: Adding Community-Related Menu Items to the Website

Lecture 2: BuddyPress Built-In Widgets You Can Add to the Sidebar and Homepage

Lecture 3: Publishing a Status in the Activity Wall – Similar to the Facebook Wall

Lecture 4: Making Friendship Connections With Other Community Members

Lecture 5: Working With Messages – Sending Private and Global Messages Between Members

Lecture 6: Adding the Sitewide Activity Wall to the Menu

Lecture 7: Reaching Links to the Community Components From Different Places in the Website

Lecture 8: Preventing Community Members From Accessing WordPress Dashboard

Lecture 9: Privacy Issues in BuddyPress – and How to Solve Them to Allow Ultimate Privacy

Lecture 10: Members Profiles and How to Edit Them and Control the Email Notifications

Lecture 11: Adding Photo, Video and Link Sharing Options to the Activity Wall

Lecture 12: Adding Interest Groups to your Website – to Make it Even More Interesting!

Lecture 13: Adding Forums to Your Network – to Give Your Members another Way to Communicate!

Chapter 7: Final Touches Before Launching Your Community!

Lecture 1: Adding a Contact Form to Your Website

Lecture 2: Implementing Community-Related Widgets in Your Website

Chapter 8: How to Keep Your Community Alive and Attract New People to Join

Lecture 1: Adding BuddyPress to an Existing WordPress Website

Lecture 2: What is Your Starting Point, and What You Can Do To Bring New Members

Lecture 3: More plugins you might find helpful for you community

Chapter 9: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Thank you for taking the course!

Instructors

Maya Bielik
In love with online teaching, thrilled to spread knowledge!

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4 stars: 22 votes

5 stars: 32 votes

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