I am asking a very basic question here, but would like to see if there are any successful communities created using Buddypress?

Have you guys seen any serious community built using Buddypress? Most of the ‘featured’ sites in Buddypress site have no serious participation (except for maybe educational sites, but those are more professors driven and less by choice).

Would love to see some real social network coming from Buddypress and inspiration one can derive from these.

[@andrea_r Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

https://wordpress.org/showcase/?s=buddypress

[@xevo Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

And what would be your definition of a “real social network”?

I’m not really seeing a buddypress driven site become as big as facebook or twitter w/o some serious original ideas etc.
Seeing that BuddyPress can be setup by anyone.

[@pisanojm Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

We are very successful and only 6 months in evolution at 1,200 members with a 70% active participant number (at least once every 2 weeks). The site is specifically for Music Education. You can check it out at musicpln[dot]org You’ll have to sign up to see it though (free sign-up).

Regards.

[@modemlooper Moderator 13 years, 11 months ago]

Compared to what facebook? Nobody will ever reach what facebook has achieved. And really who would want to? I have a few close friends on FB but could careless what the other users are doing. BuddyPress is more to create groups of interest. That’s it’s power over FB. Also you can control the experience, FB is generic.

[@iamsincere Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

I don’t know about that, I think someone will pass FB up, not sure when, but they’ll get some competition that’ll have them shaking in their boots lol

I hope its me

Hey @Andrea_r lol, i remember when you helped me with my first line of BP code….I’ve gotten better, thank you

[@gunju2221 Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

http://www.hotforwords.com

[@jarbess Member 13 years, 11 months ago]

I have created a kids social network, has about 40 members, expanding.

http://www.chattersocialnetwork.com/

[@valuser Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

came across http://blogs.ubc.ca/
appears to be a great example of what bp can do (3000+ blogs etc)

[@gregfielding Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

Mine is working and growing well: http://housingstorm.com

[@craig1985 Member 13 years, 6 months ago]

Mine is doing pretty well but only a few months old if that. It is aimed at magicians and people with a love for the art. http://maskedmagic.com

[@stwc Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

My BP site at http://gamefilter.net is busy and growing… about 400 members at this stage, I think.

[@mjbenzon Participant 11 years, 7 months ago]

Yay! And I thought we’re doing really bad. 2k+ members in 4 months but this is is like highly customized buddypress site. http://www.webcuties.me. No major marketing yet but will run contests with prizes soon and hopefully that would give us a boost.

[@lgny Participant 11 years, 7 months ago]

@mjbenzon is that theme available anywhere? I would love to use that.

[@mjbenzon Participant 11 years, 7 months ago]

@igny no not yet, the theme is still a little buggy, hard to make it work flawless if you costumize it that heavily, will let you know if I release the theme.

[@dbd13 Participant 11 years, 7 months ago]

@mjbenzon I am willing to spend my own money in continuing the development of it if you guys would be willing to share it. I can also sign any agreement that I would not step in your niche. I would like to use it for my ethnicity as a casual dating site.

[@mjbenzon Participant 11 years, 7 months ago]

@dbd13 email me at Marx.benzon@gmail.com.

[@omoesiri Participant 11 years, 5 months ago]

There’s one I know
http://www.gcliqq.tk
very nice !

[@rastarr Participant 11 years, 5 months ago]

We’re only a new BuddyPress installation though the site has been going for about 4 years – http://www.geekandjock.com

My challenge is getting participation as well as expanding the community’s existence in the big wide wonderful world.

For me, any suggestions in getting the word out would be really appreciated.
What do others do for this? Maybe this would make a better topic elsewhere

[@bphelp Participant 11 years, 5 months ago]

@rastarr
Are you using WordPress SEO plugin in conjuction with this fix from BuddyDev:

Making WordPress SEO plugin compatible with BuddyPress

It also helps having links to your site from other popular social networks as well as linking back. I am not an expert on SEO I just know what worked for me in the past.

[@rastarr Participant 11 years, 5 months ago]

@bp-help yeah, I am running WordPress SEO by Yoast as well as one mod but will need to check the one you listed and suss it out.
The site has social sharing coming out of the kazoo. So I still haven’t found whatever it is that people find attractive in a Community such as the one I’m trying to get going and build up.

[@rastarr Participant 11 years, 5 months ago]

@bphelp Checked out the buddydev.com thread and gave him 2 other WordPress threads relating to WPSEO and BP so hope he can make his stuff (and BP) even better.
Back to pondering on my fledgling community ….. 🙂