Buddypress Plugins: BuddyPress Activity Plus
While BuddyPress is great out of the box, for a successful community you will need to bring in additional features. This is achieved by using WordPress plugins. A BuddyPress plugin we often use and recommend is BuddyPress Activity Plus (BAP).Read More
Introducing InstaShop, the app that makes Instagram shoppable!
BuddyPress – The Enterprise Solution for Social Networking Communities.
A key decision when developing an enterprise level social network or online community is which platform to use. In this post, we look at how BuddyPress has emerged as the perfect enterprise level solution.Read More
WordPress Plugins: The Basics
In this article, we cover what a WordPress plugins. We look at how they work, how to choose a plugin that is right for you and how you can use plugins to improve your website.
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Understanding WordPress upgrade alerts
Anyone who has used the WordPress CMS will have seen WordPress upgrade alerts. Be it for WordPress itself, or for WordPress plugins. Even after a short amount of time, alerts can stack up. These alerts can be daunting. This post is a guide to understanding the information behind those alerts.
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Upgrading WordPress and WordPress plugins
In this post, we talk about the benefits, opportunities and potential issues associated with upgrading WordPress. This includes upgrading WordPress CMS and WordPress plugins. This post is useful if you are looking to update:
- Your Custom Community built by Zipline
- A WordPress / BuddyPress community developed by yourself
- A community developed by another agency, using WordPress
Third party services: How they can enhance your community
In this post, we look at how you can use third party services like Google, Facebook, Twitter and Shopify to add additional functionality to your Zipline Custom Community.
Introducing ‘Invite a friend’. A tool to make blogs and forums ‘active’.
In this post, we look at how the new WordPress plugin Invite a friend. This is an exclusive plugin developed by Zipline. It is an intuitive tool that can be used to enhance posting to blogs and forums.
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Why people help each other on social networks
Helping people online is taken for granted. Be it user reviews or advice that is dispensed freely. But why do people help each other? Specifically, people who don’t know each other.