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Custom implementation of a social member system

Discussion in 'Content Management' started by Nattsurfaren, May 24, 2016.

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    Hi everyone!
    This is my first post.
    I have been thinking of building a web service that should be able to handle a member database with login and register support.
    I want to build this using the divi wordpress theme. I know there is different methods to solve this but I would to get some
    recommendation of doing this the smart way. Where would you start?
    I have been learning wordpress theme and plugin development but not planning to do anything serious with it until now.
    I would appreciate any information on this that can help me.
     
    Nattsurfaren, May 24, 2016 IP
  2. Nigel Lew

    Nigel Lew Notable Member

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    Divi is sort of boring. What are you actually trying to accomplish here?

    N.
     
    Nigel Lew, May 24, 2016 IP
  3. PoPSiCLe

    PoPSiCLe Illustrious Member

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    Also, since Wordpress already have a working members-register, it's just about finding the right plugin for registering new ones. Depending on what you're planning to do, I would probably not use Wordpress for this, but... yeah.
     
    PoPSiCLe, May 24, 2016 IP
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    Wordpress will give you all the signup functionality but if you need to extend it things get a bit messy.
    Any framework or cms will give you the member management though, sometimes out of the box, sometimes via a tutorial
    Before committing to a particular system I'd want to know what else is going on. Why do people join? What does the site need to do for them? What admin tasks are needed?
     
    sarahk, May 24, 2016 IP
  5. Nigel Lew

    Nigel Lew Notable Member

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    Good point. I took note the title has social in it. I have had to monkey with buddypress more times than I care to recount. Its a hot, convoluted mess.

    I have had some luck with this though http://codecanyon.net/item/userpro-user-profiles-with-social-login/5958681 it could get a tad pricier obviously depending on what you have to do but its entirely modular and quite nice looking as well.
     
    Nigel Lew, May 24, 2016 IP
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    Pricier, perhaps, but you couldn't write it for $29
     
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    Nigel Lew Notable Member

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    True. That simply just gives folks a coherent profile as well. Private messaging and all that other stuff is an addon. He has a bit of a racket going on lol..
     
    Nigel Lew, May 24, 2016 IP
  8. Nattsurfaren

    Nattsurfaren Peon

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    Buddypress seams nice. I'm experimenting with that one. I downloaded a plugin with register that didn't work. I picked the function responsible and created my own short code feature that seams to work. Need to convert it to bootstrap though. It really hard to do anything with wordpress compared to just plain php. Very hard to get creative i think. For example I'm struggling with controlling menus with shortcode using php but that seams to be a dead end so I need to do it with jquery or something. I posted another thread about that issue.
     
    Nattsurfaren, May 27, 2016 IP