To go into more detail on BuddyPress and relate it back to my research, it has allowed me to control information people must enter when registering for an account. For example, generally when you create an account on any website, you have to enter the basic information: your name and email, gender and age, maybe a description of yourself for your bio. These are all things I can control with BuddyPress. Once a person has registered their account and activated it, they are allowed to, like most other social media websites (this is the basic idea behind BuddyPress), interact with others. You can friend them, update your social status, post to a wall which can be liked, shared with others, and commented on, private message others, and much more. I think it is a really unique plug-in. I will be sharing the link to my website, so you people can go play around with it. It's not a perfect website, so there are many things that need work, but that's not important to me. Some buttons don't do anything and I don't need them to -- they are more just decoration. Just have fun exploring: My Website.
As for JetPack, I have only just recently started implementing it. As you read in the beginning, that is what it does. I am not all up to date on what it does because I am still learning about it. Relating it back to my research, I know that it will allow for improved analytics and sharing with social media that could possibly be attacked -- I am not saying it will be attacked. It is very unlikely. I will be able to share more about this plug-in next week.
So, now I will give you a few tips when navigating my website site. When you first register and enter in the required information, you will be asked to activate the account. An email will be sent to your email address where you click on the link and activate it much like any other. It will probably be in your Spam, so make sure to check there. Another rule of thumb, some buttons don't work and the website may change on you. That just means i'm working on it. Other than that, go crazy, explore, give feedback. I will obviously be on my website from time to time, so if you want to talk to me, just message me there if you can find which account I am on. I have a lot.
This is pretty exciting for me. Being able to run this website with people on it provides a cool feeling that I can't quite describe. I hope you like the website and I will be looking forward to seeing you on it. I hope you have a fun and exciting weekend. Signing off, Adam.
