Social Media for Wordpress: Build Communities, Engage Members and Promote Your Site

Book Description

Fast paced, quick to read, impossible to put down, this book is a complete plan for social engagement on the web. You’ve heard plenty of social media success stories. You know your WordPress site inside and out, but you want help. Stop right now and pick up a copy of this book.

What you will learn

• Discover the fundamentals, misconceptions and basic implementations of social media as well as WordPress features to drive more site engagement Roll out your social media layer with BuddyPress and add game-like capabilities to help you engage your site members Create group forums using bbPress and BuddyPress, while automatically publishing WordPress posts to Twitter using RSS feeds Incorporate memberships and make category-specific content restrictions applicable only to non-members Implement Google Analytics to tracking your social media efforts and learn how to automatically email analytical reports Easily maintain your site by automatically backing up your site and publishing posts via email Automatically post tweets, so you can spend more time on genuine dialogues and less time on producing relevant tweets Produce QR codes for your print collateral so you can improve the accessibility of the relationships you've built online

Who this book is for