If you’re not familiar with the Welcome Pack plugin, check out the video below. This is one of the best plugins available for personalizing your BuddyPress community. This new version, released a couple of days ago, adds a new Start Page feature. When a new user logs into your site for the very first time, the Start Page will them anywhere you’d like. This plugin is compatible with WordPress 3.0 and sports a very user-friendly plugin options page.
Would you like to add Facebook comments, registration, 'Like' buttons and autoposting to your WP site? Well, The Ultimate Facebook plugin has got that all covered!
If you've ever wondered how you could offer a paid site management and hosting service, then this is the plugin for you. Offer a freemium or paid service, for any niche you like, it's powered Edublogs.org to success already!
Now there's no need to pay for a third party service to sign up, manage and send beautiful email newsletters to your subscriber base - this plugin has got the lot.
Fully integrated with the SEOMoz API, complete with automatic links, sitemaps and SEO optimization of your WordPress setup - this is the only plugin you need to help you rank your site number 1 on Google - nothing else compares.
To get a wiki up and running you used to need to install Mediawiki and toil away for days configuring it... not any more! This plugin gives you *all* the functionality you want from a wiki, in WordPress!!!
It's now incredibly easy to start your own Q&A site using nothing more than WordPress - The Q&A plugin simply and brilliantly transforms any site, or page, into a perfect support or Q&A environment.
Simply insert google maps into posts, sidebars and pages - show directions, streetview, provide image overlays and do it all from a simple button and comprehensive widget.
If you're thinking about starting a paid, or just private, membership site then this is truly the plugin you've been looking for. Easy to use, massively configurable and ready to go out of the box!
Sarah Gooding is a partner at Untame LLC, a boutique digital marketing firm specializing in open source content management systems and social networking architecture. Get in touch with her on Twitter @pollyplummer
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Would love to know how other buddypress sites are using the start page functionality.
Thanks for mentioning Welcome Pack!