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Social Media for Wordpress: Build Communities, Engage Members and Promote Your Site

By : Michael Kuhlmann
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Social Media for Wordpress: Build Communities, Engage Members and Promote Your Site

By: Michael Kuhlmann

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Social Media for Wordpress: Build Communities, Engage Members and Promote Your Site
Michael Kuhlmann
Apr, 2012 | 166 pages
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Social Media for WordPress
Social Media for WordPress
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Share it the Easy Way
Share it the Easy Way
Before you read this book
A brief overview of social media
The WordPress advantage
The karma of pingbacks and comments
Food for thought: RSS feed basics
Time for action—building an automated newsletter with a keyword-based RSS feed
Summary
2
Building the Social Network: BuddyPress and WP Symposium
Building the Social Network: BuddyPress and WP Symposium
Before you enable the social layer
Activating BuddyPress plugins
Easing your users into BuddyPress
Time for action—how to convert site visitors to site members
Gamification: The art of user-generated content
Time for action—how to get your users to create original content for you
Time for action—how to enable users to share your content
BuddyPress versus WP Symposium
Summary
3
Community Forums for the Masses
Community Forums for the Masses
Comments versus forums
Time for action—how to automatically display selective forum posts in Twitter
WP Symposium Forums and Simple:Press
Summary
4
VIP Memberships
VIP Memberships
Three important facets of membership sites
Time for action—how to open limited membership registrations and reward users
Summary
5
Keeping Up with the Stats
Keeping Up with the Stats
Understanding key terminology
Creating a Google Analytics account and tracking your site
Time for action—the quick guide to implementing analytics for your site
Time for action—tracking a tweet to your site through Google Analytics
Reviewing and reporting analytics
Time for action—the quick guide to reading analytics
Summary
6
Managing your Site
Managing your Site
Damage control—key aspects of maintenance
Time for action—how to create automated daily backups for your site
Getting organized and managing time
Lowering the barrier of writing
Time for action—how to write and automatically publish posts through e-mail
Summary
7
Beyond the Plugins Towards True Engagement
Beyond the Plugins Towards True Engagement
Engaging site visitors
Time for action—how to automatically tweet custom content
Design speaks
Time for action—how to create a vector-based QR code for print production
QR codes and online promotions
Summary
Further Reading
Further Reading
Chapter 1—Share it the Easy Way
Chapter 2—Building the Social Network: BuddyPress and WP Symposium
Chapter 3—Community Forums for the Masses
Chapter 4—VIP Memberships
Chapter 5—Keeping Up with the Stats
Chapter 6—Managing your Site
Chapter 7—Beyond the Plugins Towards True Engagement
Pop quiz Answers
Pop quiz Answers
Chapter 1, Share it the Easy Way
Chapter 2, Building the Social Network: BuddyPress and WP Symposium
Chapter 3, Community Forums for the Masses
Chapter 4, VIP Memberships
Chapter 5, Keeping Up with the Stats
Chapter 6, Managing your Site
Chapter 7, Beyond the Plugins Towards True Engagement

Chapter 2—Building the Social Network: BuddyPress and WP Symposium

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