BuddyPress with WordPress MU: The Ultimate Combo

If you have worked on WordPress before, you are probably already familiar with what WordPress MU (Multi User) platform is. WordPress MU is the same as what you see on WordPress.com. Yes WordPress themselves use a multi user platform to give our free WordPress blogs from their website.

Now that you know what WordPress MU is and have created a website where people sign up to make blogs, you would want the users to have a whole social networking experience?? That is where BuddyPress coming in handy.

“BuddyPress will extend WordPress MU and bring social networking features to a new or existing installation.

BuddyPress is a suite of WordPress plugins and themes, each adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact.

All BuddyPress plugins can be themed to match your own style, in just the same way as a WordPress blog. The BuddyPress plugins are bundled with a default theme to get you going out of the box.

As all BuddyPress plugins are independant, they can be used in two different ways. All of the plugins could be used to create a complete social network from scratch, or you could use specific plugins to add desirable features to your existing blog network.”

Jump to their website to see the buddypress demo in action.

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Google Sitemap Generator

Google Sitemap MakerGoogle site maps let people find every page you have quickly and easily.

But to make a Google site map you have to install a script onto your web site, and then try to get that script to run, right?

Let me ask you something: how much time do you spend hassling with scripts that are supposed to make Google site maps for you? Too much?

Yeah, me too. Those stupid scripts never seemed to work right and I was spending half my day sometimes trying to sort them out. I’d install them on my site, then experience massive frustration trying to get them to run.

But what if you didn’t have to deal with site-based scripts?

What if you could make Google site maps quickly and easily off your PC desktop?

If you’d like to save yourself time and frustration, this will be one of the most important messages you’ll ever read.

Here’s what Google site maps do for you…

• Help people find more of your web pages, since they give you better crawl coverage.

• Make sure that when people search on your keywords they get fresher search results.

• Let you provide specific information to Google concerning your web pages, like when a page was last modified or how frequently it changes.

• Get your web pages crawled by Google quickly without having to know some secret back door into the search engines like many of those SEO guys will try to sell you packages for.

Here Are Just a Few of the Amazing Benefits to Using Google Site Map Maker:

• Downloadable immediately

• Installs in minutes

• Offers easy site map making

• Gets you into Google FAST!

• Brings everyone’s eyeballs onto every one of your web pages

• Puts BIG CHECKS in your mailbox!!!

• Did I mention FAST results – how fast? Some people have gotten into Google literally overnight!

• Huge traffic increases – the spiders find you, and you know what happens next. It’s all good! Visitors come, and they come fast.

• Turbocharge your ranking – very soon you’ll notice a distinct boost in rankings, which will boost ad revenue!

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Turn Your WordPress Blog into a Classified Website

WordPress Classified ThemeThe WordPress Classified Theme will turn your simple WordPress blog into a powerful money making Classified website. As you already know, classifieds are growing day by day and there are thousands of free classified out there like Craigslist, OLX, Locato and other. These are big companies and can afford to offer free classifieds. You have to be different. Choose a niche locality, preferably an area where you are living… which is big enough market… maybe take your city and start a classified on WordPress where you offer premium services and then charge for every classified ad.

No business can run for free, after all you would have to pay for your WordPress hosting and other expenses. What better way to charge customers and provide them with a good service. I don’t think any customer would mind paying $2 for posting their advertisement if they know that it will be viewed by thousands of local buyers.

I think this is an automatic and easy business that everyone can experiment… what do you have to loose?

Check out the free demo of the classified WordPress theme.

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WP E-Commerce Plugin Vs Market Theme

Market ThemeYesterday I had posted an article on WP e-commerce plugin and today i am comparing it with Market Theme, which is an ecommerce shopping cart for WordPress. When I went over to Market Theme, they had a demo which looked very much like an ecommerce website and not a blog at all where as WP ecommerce plugin looked more like a blog. This is a personal preference, if your purpose is primarily selling then you would be better off with Market Theme but if blogging is your motive and selling a product is a side business on it then go for the other.

Both companies have listed comparison between the two on their websites but they differ significantly, I would recommend you go through before making your final selection. Market theme is not free. It cost $55 for the standard license.

There is one thing which I liked about Market Theme, the way they let you add a product and checkout immediately without having to fill out forms etc. The 1 click checkout helps increase sales as most of the time you would loose a customer by asking them to fill out forms or create logins.

Market Theme is placing themselves as not just a plugin but an entire ecommerce packaged theme.

Related Post:
1. WP Shopping Cart

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WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin

Shopping Cart PluginHave you ever wondered how you could make money from your blog? Not from Adsense and not even from Affiliates but from selling products which you have. If you are blogging on your fashion blog, you could sell fashion cloths or accessories on the blog itself. Your readers would buy from you because of the trust which you have created from your blog.

If you thought is is very tough to e-commerce enable your blog, then think again. WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin will come to your rescue, not only it is easy to install just like any other plugin but it also comes with the great backend admin to let you easily add products. You can choose from PayPal, Google Checkout, Authorize Net etc as your preferred payment gateways and all this you get for Free!

There is free support available for the plugin on their forums incase you get stuck with something. Here is what a customer had to say about the Plugin

“I needed a ecommerce solution for clients websites. A lot of customers wanted a blog and have one or two products to sell. WP is a great tool and your ecommerce solution is the best I have found. You have the best product available.” Jeff

Head over to Instinct’s website to download the plugin.

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