How to Create a Social Network For a Niche-Related Community

About this course

An online community is a great place for people with the same interest to share their thought, experiences and stories with each other. This course will teach you how to build a social network that would allow your members to make friendship connections, to send messages to each other, to share ideas and statuses on a site-wide activity stream, and you will also learn how to create niche-related groups to make your network even more interesting. You don't need to have any former experience with Wordpress and/or Buddypress, which are the platforms we will use in this course, since i show you how to use them. Course StructureThe course is built in a "Learn by Watching" way, which is my favourite way of teaching and learning. I simply show you where i click and how i do everything on my screen, so you can see and imitate in your own system. The course will take about 2 hours to complete and i suggest you watch it on a tablet if you own one, so you can put it besides your computer while you work on your community website. Here are the steps we will go through in this course:Website hosting - you will need one to get your platform onlineWordpress installationAdding Wordpress (free) themeLearn Wordpress basics - content, menus, theme options, plugins, widgetsBuddypress installation and configurationNetwork components and how to work with themWhat kind of network will i learn to buildThe network you will build depends on your needs. I will give you all the tools you can use in order to create a network with the most possibilities Buddypress can provide, and it's yours to take what you need from it. You can build a public community for anyone to join. You can build a secret community for specific p