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BuddyPress

June 3, 2011

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Copyright © 2011 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-development/yorgoo-media-yorgo-nestoridis-development/buddypress/buddypress/.BuddyPress 1.0 Vouliagmeni, May 6, 2009 — by Yorgo Nestoridis WordPress MU is a great idea, however we have never ever seen multiple individual sites powered by WPMU achieving significant results on Google. This seems to be a general problem with networks where users contribute content and the site owner needs to find a balance between providing a stable framework and his ambition to reach top 10 positions on Google on keywords targeted by the users. One of the reasons may be the constraints of the blog farm software where a high degree of standardization through out all participants’ sites is necessary. BuddyPress and Google Can BuddyPress contribute to give individual users higher visibility on Google? Probably yes, considering that BuddyPress will trigger more activity on the individual sites. But there is more: BuddyPress can be set up to show content which n most other social network structures is not publicly visible because hidden behind a login screen which makes content inaccessible by Google and other search engines. Furthermore, BuddyPress allows to create feeds about each user’s activity; such feeds can be dealt with in various ways, namely they can [...] No related posts.

Hosting BuddyPress

June 3, 2011

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Copyright © 2011 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis/buddypress-hosting-buddy-press/.Hosting BuddyPress and WPMU Reading all the blogs and forums about installing WPMU and Buddypress, it seems that there are some particular challenges when setting up a WordPress Multi-user script. WordPress MU DNS settings To run each member’s site on it’s own sub-domain Most hosts run on Apache Version 2.0 and here the creation of the Wildcard DNS entry does not require WHM access. Loading the cPanel x3 theme will do the trick: in x3 just create a sub-domain called “*” (without the quotes) and the problem is solved. If you run on Apache Version 1, just follow the instructions on the MU read-me file as well as Matt’s comments on his blog. Tun run member sites in sub folders There is no need to worry about the DNS settings. BuddyPress Hosting Issues We have not detected any particular hosting problems here: to run a straight forward Buddy Press on MU without too many gimmicks and plug-ins should be possible on most any host. We use ChiHosters where we can provide users with the necessary assistance. For a small set-up, the standard unlimited hosting account at $35 per year will [...] Related posts:BuddyPress Yorgoo Media BuddyPress featured on YORGOO Blaster WordPress Hosting by ChiHosters BuddyPress Hosting South Africa