Now that you've worked through this chapter, you'll know that creating a great social media site for your group or community using BuddyPress isn't hard. You simply installed the plugin and made some amendments to the configuration to suit your site's needs.

In this chapter, you learned what BuddyPress is and how it works. You also learned how to install and configure BuddyPress. We also showed how to create pages for BuddyPress and how to add BuddyPress pages to your navigation menu. Finally, you also learned how to use BuddyPress with a suitable theme, how to add BuddyPress widgets to your theme's widget areas, and how to import test data to test out your BuddyPress site.

Now, all you need to do is grow your online community. Good luck!