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Make Your Website More Sociable with BuddyPress and bbPress for WordPress

By Joe - August 13, 20142

BuddyPress and bbPress are two WordPress plugins that have been created by some of the same individuals who helped develop WordPress and make it what it is today. Both plugins are related in the sense that they can help you build a community around your website, giving you the ability to interact better with your visitors, while also letting them interact with each other. Of the two plugins, bbPress is responsible for adding discussion forums to WordPress sites, while BuddyPress has the ability to add social networking features. Continue

Make Your WordPress Site More Interactive with These Communication Tools (Part II)

By Joe - July 16, 20140

In Part I of our series tutorial blog “How to make your WordPress site more interactive with communication tools”, we have covered 3 available solutions including using Contact form, Q&A plugin and Live chat plugin.

Today’s blog is the second part of this series tutorial which will discuss 2 other options: Discussion Forum and Social Network. Just dive in.

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Make Your WordPress Site More Interactive with These Communication Tools (Part I)

By Joe - July 14, 20140

If you want to really connect with your audience then finding new ways to make yourself available to them can really help you achieve your goals.

In this two-part series blog post we will look at 5 other ways you can make it easy for your visitors, readers, and potential or existing customers and clients, to get in touch with you beyond the standard post comments features of WordPress. Continue

Recommended 3rd Party Comment Systems for Your WordPress Site

By Jin - June 19, 20145

WordPress built-in comment system is believed to deliver adequate features for your comment section to work. Yet it seems dull and plain in the eyes of demanding bloggers who always prefer coloring outside the lines. And for those who depend mostly on blogging to gain traffic and user engagement, keeping your blog conversations out of the bland monotony is a must.

As a follow-up post for the last article about The pros and cons of Using 3rd party comment system for WordPress, this write-up is going to focus on presenting top 4 external comment systems up to now. This is our attempt to give you more insight on how these platforms work and later on you can decide which one to implement for your WordPress site. Continue

Using Third-party Comment Systems for WordPress: Pros and Cons

By Jin - June 6, 201411

When we build our blog site, obviously that integrating a commenting system for is a must to gain readers engagement. The question is which commenting system we should use and why?

If you build a WordPress blog site then WordPress already supports a commenting system at core that you can enable and use anytime you want to. Apart from WordPress’s native comment system at core, there is now a host of other 3rd party comment systems available, such as Disqus, LiveFyre, Facebook comment, CommentLuv, Intense Debate, etc. It is, therefore, unsurprising for any blogger, both amateur and expert, to find themselves get lost among the various options and wonder if they should stick to the built-in system or opt for an external one. Continue