WordPress has a buddy that makes it much more powerful and lets you create social sites to engage with a community, allowing your community's members to talk to each other. It's called BuddyPress.
BuddyPress lets you create a powerful community site with a range of features you can turn on and off. There's a library of themes designed for BuddyPress, and you can also integrate it into the theme you're already running on your site.
In this chapter, you'll learn how to:
Install BuddyPress
Set up your theme
Configure the BuddyPress settings
Manage your site
So let's get started!