I’ve helped build and manage several large-scale and small-scale websites with WordPress that serve as network hubs for anywhere from 100 to 10,000 people. From 2010-2014 I ran the THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) initiative at GMU’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, helping scholars worldwide organize unconferences about technology and the humanities: over 11,000 registered users have attended over 300 THATCamps since its inception. I am currently Director of the Resilient Networks for Inclusive Digital Humanities initiative at George Washington University and Community Manager for Frankenreads, a global initiative to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s novel _Frankenstein_ with readings and other events for Halloween 2018.
Amanda will be presenting “Building and Managing Communities with Multisite, BuddyPress, Commons-in-a-Box, and bbPress”
In this session, attendees will learn about the basic features of some of the most popular and powerful tools for making a WordPress site into a community hub: Multisite, BuddyPress, Commons-in-a-Box, and bbPress. We’ll also discuss how and whether to offer particular functionalities with one or more of these tools:
* Collecting specific user data (BuddyPress Extended Profile Fields)
* Letting users talk to one another on your site (forums, groups, private messages)
* Allowing users to create their own sub-communities on your community site (sites with Multisite, Groups with BuddyPress)
* Displaying user directories and profiles
* One-way communication with users (dashboard messages, mass emails, enabling email subscriptions to blog posts)