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Affiliate Links and Community Content: Doing It Without Looking Spammy
Every community forum has the thread. Someone asks what tool, product, or service they should use, and five members reply with their honest picks. … Read more
Read postSelling Sponsored Spots to Community Vendors
A local bakery asks to put its logo somewhere on your neighborhood community forum. A software vendor wants their tool mentioned in your developer … Read more
Read postMonetizing a Community Site Beyond Membership Fees
Most guides to community monetization stop at the membership wall. Set a price, gate the good stuff, collect recurring revenue, done. It works, and … Read more
Read postReverse Directories: Letting Members Post What They Need
Every directory on the internet runs the same direction: a business posts what it offers, and a visitor searches through those offers to find … Read more
Read postOpenStreetMap vs. Google Maps: What a Directory Plugin Actually Needs
Ask most WordPress developers which mapping service a directory plugin should use and the answer arrives instantly: Google Maps, because that’s what everyone us...
Read postAdding a Local Business Directory to a Community Site
Most articles about business directories on WordPress are written for someone building a directory site from a blank install. That is not the situation … Read m...
Read postMember Directory or Business Directory? Choosing the Right Listing Model
Every community site owner who adds a directory eventually asks the same question in a support ticket or a Slack DM: should this be … Read more
Read postTurning Community Members Into Referral Hires
We’ve written before about referral programs that encourage current members to bring in new ones, and that post is about growth, using existing members … Read m...
Read postFree Job Board vs. Paid Job Board Plugin: What Actually Matters
We’ve already covered ten WordPress job board plugins and walked through the plugins worth considering for a full job board website in earlier posts. … Read mor...
Read postGroup-Scoped Job Boards: Hiring Inside a Niche Community
Community platforms already solved the problem of grouping people by shared interest long before job boards did. Groups exist precisely because a photography co...
Read postAdding a Community Job Board Without a Third-Party Plugin
Back in April we wrote about BuddyX Pro shipping native integration with WP Career Board, and that post did what announcement posts do: it … Read more
Read postTurning a Community AMA Into a Bookable Event
An AMA that lives entirely in a forum thread or a Discord channel has a short shelf life. It’s announced once, a burst of … Read more
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