WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

You can easily make a community site with WordPress if you have a specific need or to be more precise - you can create a social network platform. There are a few things you need to be aware off if evaluating this option. And not only administrative hurdles associated with maintaining a Community Site but rather technical aspects!

In this post I want to share couple tips that can help you evaluate your options and decide if you still want to build your social network (community site) or not…

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Couple things I simply had to share with my readers that are already generate the Buz-z-z-z in blogosphere and social networks… and for a good reason. Each one of them is directly related to a contest and in one of them - you still have a chance to win! Quick Links:

• “Big Jason” - see it here
• Alejandro Reyes - Successfool contest

And if you want the juicy details, dig in…

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WordPress Web 2.0 SpotEr now uses power of SezWho 2.0 to build community. I have seen it implemented on Andy Beard’s blog for a while now and while I liked many aspects I wasn’t 100% convinced it was right tool for me. SezWho 2.0 release solved all the issues I had with service and now it is a proud part of my blog plugins.

As blogging becomes more and more popular and people are taking a dive into the process it becomes more and more important to be able to evaluate reputation of the person you might be engaged into conversation with on a particular blog. Credibility score across multiple platforms to build stronger communities is now possible…

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Brians Threaded Comments Plugin is perhaps the most popular among the WordPress blog users due to functionality it provides and a huge enhancement to standard comments system that comes with WordPress. Problem is - the plugin is Not Well Supported and has quite a few bugs.

In fact if you simply decide to use what is provided you will run into quite a few issues and since the plugin is hard to customize if you are not a programmer it might be more problems then one can handle. Well fear not - I have spent a few hours of researching, fixing and testing and want to present you with resulting file. Now you too can have Brians Threaded Comments on your blog, minus all the issues…

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WordPress Web 20 “How-To” Spot-Er MyBlogLog community have been growing steadily since its inception and I’m very great full to each and every blogger who joined it! In fact I do everything in my power to reciprocate because what I have found so far is that every member of my community has a great blog, most of which I would have never found via other means.

In this post I want to highlight my current community members and invite you to be come part of my community. Yes, I have joined the MyBlogLog Problogger Contest and want to see if I can interest enough people to join my community and help me win it. I don’t intend to go begging anyone to join my WordPress Web 20 “How-To” Spot-er Community as I don’t want to game the system but will reward all my members by creating another highlight post at the end of contest.

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