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Vernon Fowler

Linda Peng » Blog Archive » 10 Lessons I Learned from Designing an Online Com... - 0 views

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  • I recommend giving people single sign-on options using Twitter, Linkedin, OpenID, Livejournal, etc. as well as Facebook.
  • The rest of your target market still needs to be convinced to care about your community enough to join.
  • Make your homepage interesting enough to visit twice.
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  • There’s probably a reason Quora, Stackoverflow and most Ning networks all have news feeds on their front pages.
  • Clearly define your niche.
  • clearly define your site’s niche so that users will have an easier time understanding how your site adds value to their lives. For example, Quora is the social network where one gets their questions answered; Stackoverflow is a Q&A network for programmers; Linkedin is a specific network for jobhunting professionals. What specific need does your social network cater to?
  • Beware of outdated plugins and themes.
  • Look at the description closely and check to see if it’s been tested up to the WordPress version you’ve installed. If you’re unsure, search for the plugin forums (every WordPress plugin should have one) and see the latest praises or issues people are discussing on the threads.
  • If a new theme or plugin crashes your site, rename or delete it.
  • I recommend giving people single sign-on options using Twitter, Linkedin, OpenID, Livejournal, etc. as well as Facebook.
  • Your site needs an FAQ. No, really. It does. Although you personally might think that the activity feeds and groups and profile editing links are in the most obvious locations in the world, your users will not. They’re used to their own oft-frequented social networks (cough, Facebook), and  they’ll ask you why clicking on their avatar doesn’t automatically bring them to a “change your profile picture” page or if logging into your site using Facebook Connect will mean that everything they post will automatically get cross-posted to their Facebook wall. In addition, users want to know about your site features.
  • Vernon Fowler on 08 Aug 11
     
    I re-discovered my fascination with online community building around the time I subscribed to a shared hosting service, installed WordPress, discovered the Buddypress plugin, and stumbled upon open-source forums where people were amazingly helpfully about sharing troubleshooting tips and code.   This was last December. The discovery turned into an independent study I dubbed "Volunteerism in a Web 2.0 World," which turned into the development of a website and lots of meetings and several pages of an annotated bibliography - all of which I submitted to my Research in Practice Program (RIPP) advisor at the end of the semester.Over the course of my meetings with "stakeholders" (Duke students and administrators) to asses the value of the "website" (an online social network for Duke civic engagement), I learned a few things about designing an online community using WordPress and Buddypress.
Vernon Fowler

An online community for educators built with BuddyPress · BuddyPress.org - 0 views

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  • Build a professional learning community platform to help educators engage in conversation, share innovative ideas, discover and curate useful resources, document successful practices, and apply them in their own classrooms and schools.
  • Support and sustain continuity between in-person meetings and professional development opportunities. Help new constituents get up to speed and become valuable, active partners in learning communities.
  • drafted policies for user-generated content
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  • After having tried nearly every plugin option (and combination), I settled on WP Types & Views (now called WP-Toolset), which allowed me to rapidly prototype and improve data structures. Then, I used Gravity Forms to create front-end forms to prompt educators to organize and classify their recommended resources.
  • This work has only just begun, but WP-Toolset has provided all the features we’ve needed; indeed it can be compared favorably with the Blocks, Views, Panes, and Panels modules and functions for Drupal.
  • Vernon Fowler on 02 Feb 13
     
    Great post on how an online community for educators was built with BuddyPress: http://t.co/JDUbnhiG
Vernon Fowler

How to Create A Custom BuddyPress Members Directory - WPMU.org - 0 views

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  • Vernon Fowler on 10 Mar 13
     
    "One of main reasons that BuddyPress communities fail is because members don't connect and interact with each other. One way to improve that is through design that keeps members interested."
Vernon Fowler

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  • Vernon Fowler on 19 Apr 13
     
    "BuddyDrive is a BuddyPress 1.7 plugin that uses WordPress built in features for the management of its post attachments to allow the members of a community to share a file or a list of files thanks to the BuddyDrive folders. Depending on the BuddyPress settings, the access to the BuddyDrive user's content can be restricted to the owner of the item only, people that know the password the owner set for his item, the friends of the owner of the file, the members of the group the content is attached to, or everybody ! "
Vernon Fowler

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  • Vernon Fowler on 08 Jul 11
     
    "Automatically subscribe, unsubscribe, and update users to your MailChimp mailing list as users subscribe and unsubscribe to your site. Sync your BuddyPress profile fields with your MaiChimp merge variables and groups. Create MailChimp mail campaigns automatically from blog posts. AutoChimp uses a single options page to help you manage your preferred settings."
Vernon Fowler

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  • The Academic Commons of The City University of New York is designed to support faculty initiatives and build community through the use of technology in teaching and learning. The free exchange of knowledge among colleagues across the university is central to better educating the student body and expanding professional development opportunities for faculty research and teaching.
  • Vernon Fowler on 05 Jul 11
     
    "The Academic Commons of The City University of New York is designed to support faculty initiatives and build community through the use of technology in teaching and learning. The free exchange of knowledge among colleagues across the university is central to better educating the student body and expanding professional development opportunities for faculty research and teaching."
Vernon Fowler

Daily Tip: How to Clean Out the BuddyPress Activity Stream - WPMU.org - 0 views

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  • When creating a BuddyPress site you will probably do lots of testing before officially launching. If you’ve filled up your activity stream with test comments, you’ll want to dump it before opening the site to your community. There are a couple of ways to do this.
Vernon Fowler

WordPress › Invite Anyone « WordPress Plugins - 0 views

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  • Invite Anyone has two components
  • The ability to invite members to the site by email
  • By default, BuddyPress only allows group admins to invite their friends to groups. In some communities, you might want members to be able to invite non-friends to groups as well.
Vernon Fowler

BuddyPress Showcase: 12 Unique and Inspirational Sites - WPMU.org - 0 views

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  • Vernon Fowler on 11 Oct 13
     
    Want to see what designers and developers are doing with BuddyPress these days? Here's another installation of our BuddyPress eye candy series, featuring a few of the latest communities with uniquely customized themes. Newcomers to BuddyPress always have questions about how flexible the platform is for theming. If you're wondering what's possible with BuddyPress, just check out a few of these sites for a bit of inspiration.
Vernon Fowler

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  • Vernon Fowler on 25 Aug 11
     
    Beautiful Themes and Plugins for WordPress and BuddyPress.
Vernon Fowler

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  • Can I change the URL where non-loggedin users are being redirected? = Yes, currently you need to write a filter function in your functions.php. `function redirect_nonloggedin_users($current_uri, $redirect_to) { // Redirect users to the homepage // Caution! Exclude the homepage from 'Private BuddyPress' options // to avoid redirection loops! return get_option('siteurl') . '/?from=' . $redirect_to; } add_filter('pbp_redirect_login_page', 'redirect_nonloggedin_users', 10, 2);`
  • Vernon Fowler on 27 Feb 13
     
    Protect your BuddyPress Installation from strangers. Only registered users will be allowed to view the installation and all other users will be redirected to the login page. Users attempting to view blog content via RSS are also authenticated via HTTP Auth. You can exclude the registration, the homepage and blog pages (e.g. posts, archives and non-buddypress pages) from protection. In combination with the plugin 'Invitation Code Checker' your installation stays private but the registration is for users with a special password open.
Vernon Fowler

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  • Vernon Fowler on 14 May 13
     
    "Mike, I have been lurking the site you have created and want to create something similar such as your badges, icons, achievement page and leaderboard. Did you do the graphics yourself? I think I can follow your instructions for the leaderboard, and I will need to get someone else to create my graphics. How did you put together this template/page http://challengebeta.mypcls.org/achievements/a-tale-for-every-tail/"
Vernon Fowler

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  • Reputation point values can be changed by editing qa.php, which lists the values as follows: // Reputation multipliers define( ‘QA_ANSWER_ACCEPTED’, 15 ); define( ‘QA_ANSWER_ACCEPTING’, 2 ); define( ‘QA_ANSWER_UP_VOTE’, 10 ); define( ‘QA_QUESTION_UP_VOTE’, 5 ); define( ‘QA_DOWN_VOTE’, -2 ); define( ‘QA_DOWN_VOTE_PENALTY’, -1 );
  • Vernon Fowler on 11 Jun 13
     
    "Q&A allows any WordPress site to have a fully featured questions and answers section - just like StackOverflow, Yahoo Answers and Quora."
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