Creating a social networking site with WordPress is possible, but it’s a complex task that may require technical expertise, time, and resources. You’ll need to leverage various plugins and possibly custom development to achieve your goals. Here’s a simplified step-by-step guide to help you get started:

Select a Domain and Hosting:

• Choose a domain name that’s relevant to your social network.
• Purchase web hosting with sufficient resources and good performance.

Install WordPress:

• Install WordPress on your hosting server. Many hosting providers offer one-click installations for WordPress.

Choose a Theme:

• Select a WordPress theme that suits your social networking site’s design and functionality needs. Look for themes that support community and social features.

Install Essential Plugins: To transform your WordPress site into a social network, you’ll need several plugins. Here are some essential ones:

• mooWP: mooWP is a wordpress plugin, it acts as a bridge between mooSocial platform and WordPress to turn your WordPress Site Into a Social Network. It allows you to turn your one-time visitors into loyal, long-term users by providing them a place to sign up, connect with each other, post messages, and more             
• BuddyPress: BuddyPress is a powerful plugin that adds social networking features like user profiles, activity streams, groups, and private messaging to your site.
• bbPress: If you want to include forums in your social network, bbPress is a popular choice.
• Ultimate Member: This plugin allows you to create custom user profiles and membership systems.
• WP Symposium: Another alternative to BuddyPress, WP Symposium offers social networking features.
• WPSocial: WPSocial is a comprehensive social networking plugin that provides various features for creating a social network.

Customize and Configure Plugins:

• Configure your chosen plugins according to your requirements. You’ll need to set up user registration, profile fields, activity feeds, groups, and other social features.

User Registration and Profile Setup:

• Customize user registration and profile fields to gather relevant information from your members.

Activity Stream:

• Implement an activity stream that displays updates, posts, and interactions within the community.

Groups and Communities:

• If your social network is focused on specific niches or interests, create groups or communities for users to join.

Privacy Settings:

• Set up privacy options that allow users to control who can see their profiles and content.

Messaging and Notifications:

• Configure messaging and notification systems to keep users engaged and informed.

Moderation and Security:

• Implement moderation tools to manage user-generated content and ensure the security of your social network.

Content Creation and Engagement:

• Encourage users to create and share content, engage in discussions, and interact with each other.

Monetization (Optional):

• If you plan to monetize your social network, consider options like membership subscriptions, ads, or premium features.

Testing and Optimization:

• Test your social networking site thoroughly to identify and resolve any issues or bugs. Optimize performance for a smooth user experience.

Launch and Promote:

• Once you’re satisfied with the site, launch it and start promoting it to your target audience.

Community Management:

• Continuously manage and moderate your social network to foster a positive and engaging community.

Regular Updates and Maintenance:

• Keep your WordPress installation, themes, and plugins up to date. Regularly review and improve the functionality and features of your social networking site.

Creating a social networking site with WordPress is a significant undertaking, and you may need to invest in web development skills or hire professionals to help you achieve your goals. Additionally, consider the scalability of your hosting solution, as a growing community can put more demands on your server resources.

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In this version, we will focus to upgrade core and all plugins to make them compatible with php8. PHP 8.0 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features and optimizations. Keeping PHP version up-to-date is highly recommended as it makes the site safer and faster.

Plan: In August – 2023

We are pleased to announce the release of mooSocial 3.1.8 and mobile app 1.8.2.
The 3.1.8 version comes with a new look for the default theme and some improvements contributed by members of the moosocial community site. A lot of found bugs from the previous version are also addressed at this new release.
The 1.8.2 mobile version includes some small changes to make it work with 3.1.8 and fixes some found issues from the 1.8 version.

Below are list of changes and fixed bugs of 3.1.8 version:

Improvements:

+ New Theme! New look and feel for the default theme: landing page is re-designed, changed to brighter and bigger icons, applied same design style for member profile, events, group and business…..more please check at our demo site.

+ Events plugin improvements

• Event search: Can search events by country, city, state and or zipcode. Can also search by event start date
• Event notification: event owner will get notification when someone joins his/her event
• Notification will send to all attendee if event owner update event schedule
• Event reminder: to reminder attendee xx day before event start date
• Event for group: Can create an event for group

+ Groups plugin improvements

• Add option to search member in “member tab” of group
• Block user from group: allow owner to ban a member from group and manage list of banned members to unban
• Group loading speed improvement

+ OpenID Connect plugin: this is a new core plugin that enables you to authenticate users against any standard OpenID Connect Provider. With this plugin you can integrate your moosocial site with any of your preferred OpenID providers like facebook, google….to allow your member to login/sign up using existing accounts.
+ Email verification process has been changed: Not verified email yet user will not allow access to any page. Will show a page for member to know that he/she need to verify to continue
+ Allow to upload HEIC file type when uploading photo into mooSocial platform
+ Subscription plan change: if a payment gateway does not support coupon code, it will now display for members to select to make payment.
+ Add help text to all of the settings in the admin panel for the site admin to be easier to understand when configuring the platform.
+ Privacy setting for a custom field to allow admin to configure to show a field at the info tab inside member profile or not. See https://prnt.sc/cRfASY_AT3GX

Bugs Fixed

+ Users can enter space bar chars into a required field issue: user can register as an user without having to enter data but only spaces into required fields.
+ Can’t share .mp3 link at “what’s new” box issue is fixed
+ Fixed some spelling mistakes
+ ‘Allow Guest to search” is enable but the search option is not available with visitors (not logged in)
+ Fixed password issue with fb/google login: Enable better password policies in admin cp
and when user login by facebook or google login then user get error: Password should be at least 6 characters in length and should include at least one upper case letter, one number, and one special character
+ “Profile picture” text can’t changed/translated issue
+ The text “in this photo” is displayed. Even if no one is tagged in the photo. It should be like this: when someone is marked, this text is visible, if not marked, the text is not visible

Below are some importance notes for the new version:

• New versions are available to download at client area
• Paid plugins are not fully compatible with 3.1.8 version yet. We’re upgrading and testing them now. Will get them compatible in the next couple of weeks.
• Upgrade your apps to 1.8.2 if you upgraded your site to 3.1.8 version.
• Paid themes: all themes are not fully compatible with 3.1.8 version yet.
• mooSocial cloud: new version will auto update soon for all existing clients.

DO NOT upgrade your live site and app until you have a full backup of your site’s files, database and have successfully performed a test upgrade on your development (test) site first.

To celebrate the new version, we have an exciting offer for you, all of our products are running at a huge discount of 15%.

Coupon code: moo318, Expire on 30 May, 2023

Regards,
mooSocial Team