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I run a nonprofit civic group with fewer than 100 members. I want to create a member portal that will allow us to:

• keep track of members and when their annual dues expire
• allow members to interact online and via email
• display a calendar of events
• maintain flexible profiles that display some data for all members and some only for members of an admin group (for instance)
• provide a social media type of experience: creating posts, participating in group chats, etc.
• create forms that would submit via email to one or more pre-selected members
• upload and share documents, images, etc.

So basically, a simple member management system and social media site. I have looked at many free and paid member management systems. The free ones I’ve found are buggy and not well-supported, while the paid ones are far beyond our means.

My question is, can I build such a beast using only WordPress and BuddyPress, along with a few plugins? Has anyone else done this, and if so, can you suggest a way to tackle it? I don’t want to waste time learning to use BuddyPress unless I know this is possible.

Thanks for any tips and ideas.

—Pete