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

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The decision to write a book about this content management system was an easy one. At the time of this writing, WordPress powers more than 15 percent of all websites online. That's a considerable bite out of the Internet. Unfortunately, that also meant a lot of books had already been published on WordPress. After a couple of weeks, mulling over what this book should be about, I decided to tackle the popular topic of social media.

The book you're holding was originally centered on BuddyPress (BP), a WordPress plugin that extends your site's functionality by adding a social layer a la Facebook to create user profiles, add friends, send private messages, join and create groups, and so on. It wasn't a horrible idea. There were, however, several setbacks to solely dedicating an entire book to one plugin.

The vast majority of Internet users, let alone WordPress users, aren't familiar with this plugin. Unlike the words social media, which are constantly being tossed around in news headlines, BP hasn't had its shining moment yet. Another big setback to a BP-specific book revolved around the timeliness of the content. With the ever-maturing code, there was a good chance for the book to be out-dated before it even hit the shelves. But the biggest reason not to write it just on BP was that it demanded many resources. You'd need a significant amount of time to manage not only your site but also your members. You'd also need to run your site on a dedicated server, once you reached a large volume of traffic or risk downtime on a shared server. In either case, you'd need a bigger annual budget and lots of patience. This was just one trifecta of a crapshoot I didn't want to mess with. Compromise? I wrote one chapter (the longest one) on BP and focused the remaining chapters on social media marketing techniques. It seemed the best of both worlds.

Confession—I don't claim to be a social media guru, ninja, or wizard, and I'm not the biggest proponent of social media. Sometimes, it just annoys me. Do I want to Like or +1 every nook and cranny of a website? No! There's a fine balance between just right and over-the-top. The tested-and-tried activities outlined in this book exemplify this approach by letting you mix the various marketing techniques, the newsletters, forums, and BP components, for example, that promote the social interactions.
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