I remember the first time I discovered BuddyPress. It was several years back and I was working on on a new membership feature for my church’s website. Being a hard core developer, I rolled up my sleeves and started working through how I would handle discussions, notifications, user profiles, and the like. After spending several …
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We love WordCamps! WordCamps are a great opportunity to personally meet those people that we interact with on Twitter all the time. It’s a time to meet new people and drum up new business. It’s a safe place to learn more about WordPress and anything related to design, development, and good business practices. Then there’s the …
I’ve been to over 25 technology and WordPress related events in the last 5 years, and I can say hands down my favorite part of any event is talking with people. Every single person has an interesting story to tell, and things for me to learn. The problem is that most conferences have more people than …
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So you have or want to build a community. You want to collect like minded people around an idea, product, or something else. You know that these people need to know and learn from each other and you can’t wait to connect them. This is great! Creating a community like this can be life changing, …
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If you’ve worked with BuddyPress at all, then you know that it has a bevy of features and settings to get your online community set up just right. Yet with all those features, there is one notably missing… that feature is premium memberships. In another article we discussed some tips for building a thriving online …
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Here at iWitness Design, we spend a lot of time building membership and community sites. Let me just say that the work that we put into building the website is nothing compared to the work that goes into building the actual community around the new website. If you are interested in creating an online community or …