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WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide

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WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

WordPress MU enables you to build a complete, professional blog network. Each user gets their own blog, and can choose their favorite templates and plug-ins, and develop their own content. WordPress MU powers some of the largest blog networks in the world, including the mighty WordPress.com ñ home to thousands of bloggers. This book will take you through the setup of a WordPress MU-powered blogging network, using a real, working blog network as an example, so that you can follow the creation process step-by-step. Your blogging network will be complete with professional features such as friends lists, status feeds, groups, forums, photo galleries, and more, to build your own WordPress.com ñ a place where users can quickly come and create a blog for themselves. The book starts with a clean install of WordPress MU, and as you work through the book, you will build the blog network, and add on more and more features, all seamlessly integrated to achieve a professional, custom-built look.You will find new themes and plug-ins added to the site, as well as customization of the WordPress multi-user code. The book will also look at ways you can manage your community, and keep your site safe and secure, ensuring that it is a spam-free, enjoyable community for your users. In the later chapters, you will add a forum using the bbPress script, and add BuddyPress social networking components to your site. Imagine how good you'll feel when your first WordPress multi-user blog network launches.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
WordPress MU 2.8 Beginner’s Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter covered a few of the things that you can do with bbPress. We will revisit bbPress in later chapters as we continue to add even more features to the blog network. For now, you should have a working forum that relies on your WordPress MU user information, and the forum and the blog network should blend seamlessly with each other.

This chapter barely scratched the surface of what BuddyPress can do. We learned how to install the software and how to share cookies with WordPress MU so that our users need to log in only once to access the whole site. We also learned how to style BuddyPress so that it matches the rest of the blog and how to manage registrations so that spam bots cannot register on the site.

We learned about moderation and setting user roles so that we can assign moderators to various parts of the forum.

We also discussed some useful plugins that extend the capabilities of bbPress to allow for polls, user-rating of posts, and improved moderation features. We also...