April 2017 WordPress Meet-Up

*** NOTE VENUE CHANGE – see meeting details below ***

Start a Community with BuddyPress

WordPress is a great platform where you can quickly and cheaply create a web presence, but do you want more engagement? Do you want to take your web presence to the next step a build an online community? If this is where your web presence is going, then BuddyPress is the right plugin for you!

BuddyPress is fun and flexible software for online communities, teams and groups. BuddyPress helps you build any type of community website using WordPress with member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging and more.

You will hear an introduction to the BuddyPress plugin in this meetup, and examples of successful BuddyPress communities will be shared. The meetup also includes a demo of BuddyPress where you will see …

How to install BuddyPress, How to configure BuddyPress, and The BuddyPress User Experience

Presented by David Mackey, who is a Digital Marketing Consultant based in Kanata. He has 25+ years of experience building and supporting multi-tiered server applications and telecommunication systems. His recent programming and consulting experience includes six years of working with WordPress. David dreams about reshaping the shopping experience with WordPress at https://modshopr.com. David is excited to share what he has learned about BuddyPress Plugin, and how you can use it to transform your WordPress website into a thriving online community.

Meeting Details:

This months meeting is at Patty Bolands, 101 Clarence St. We have the room called “The Abbey”.

No donations for this meeting!  (We normally ask for a $4 donation to help cover the cost of the room and our Meetup fees, which total about $150-450/year)

Agenda

6:00 – General announcements

6:10 – Presentation

7:00 – Q&A

7:30 – Wrap-up