Complete Manageable Forum Website With WordPress

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Complete Manageable Forum Website With WordPress

Custom theme forum sites

When getting a custom forum site built, there are many things to consider beyond color and design.

A smoothly functioning forum site is one which has been thought out carefully: how to associate the different groups of subjects and how to encourage engagement.

What permissions and  features to give your users and an easy way to moderate the forum is also a must.

Here are some of the permissions which are flexible with different user access:

Viewing

  1. Can view a forum
  2. Can view a list of forums only
  3. Can view a list of forums and list of topics only
  4. Can view posts by an administrator
  5. Can view only own posts and admin/mod posts
  6. Can view email and IP addresses of members
  7. Can view profiles of members
  8. Can view the members lists
  9. Can view links within posts

Creating

  1. Can start new topics in a forum
  2. Can reply to existing topics in a forum
  3. Can only reply to own topics
  4. Can use spoilers in posts
  5. Can attach a signature to posts
  6. Can create links in posts
  7. Can use smileys in posts
  8. Can use iframes in posts

 

Editing

  1. Can edit own topic titles
  2. Can edit any topic title
  3. Can edit own posts forever
  4. Can edit own posts until there has been a reply
  5. Can edit any post

Deleting

  1. Can delete topics in forum
  2. Can delete own posts
  3. Can delete any post

Moderation

  1. Can bypass the math question
  2. Can bypass all post moderation
  3. Can bypass first post moderation
  4. Can moderate pending posts

Tools

  1. Can pin topics in a forum
  2. Can move topics from a forum
  3. Can move posts from a topic
  4. Can lock topics in a forum
  5. Can pin posts within a topic
  6. Can reassign posts to a different user

Developing a forum website

All of these can be set up in an independent forum site.  It can also be integrated into a WordPress or Joomla! website so that all of yourForum moderationexisting members can now participate in your forum.

All of the forms are SEO friendly, search engine optimized URLs and XLM maps, so all search engines have an easy time indexing and understanding the user content being generated.

Security  is not an afterthought with some powerful features such as:

  • Can create private and/or public forums
  • Optional ‘math’ spam prevention tool
  • Coded to use WordPress secure routines
  • Feature to prevent user access to wp admin
  • Private RSS feeds for members only

Custom WordPress Membership Sites

Design plan and build Membership Sites

 

Membership sites can take on many roles, proper planning can not only save you money but make you money.Membership site

Proper navigation for different memberships, blocking only certain content for different levels of membership.  Only letting certain members move to another level after a certain amount of time.  Perhaps blocking downloads and having one-time payments for specials.

Permitting members to only move on, once a test has been passed.

Collecting monthly fees on autopilot and also automatically adding content, makes the job of owning a membership site so much easier and profitable.

We have had the opportunity to build many successful membership sites, with all types of combinations of permissions for members and membership levels.

Some of the basic features which one of our experts will  discuss with you:

  • Unlimited Membership Levels
  • Integrates With Your WordPress Site
  • Flexible Membership Options
  • Easy Member Management
  • Sequential Content Delivery
  • Control Viewed Content
  • Shopping Cart Integration
  • Multi-Level Access
  • Total Content Protection
  • Secure RSS Feeds
  • “Sneak Peak” Content Display
  • Login Redirection
  • Subscription Length Control
  • Custom Error Pages
  • Partial Content Display
  • Much, Much More!

 

No matter if it is a free membership site or an exclusive highly monetized membership website, Personal members dashboardthe care and expertise to protect your content and still give an enjoyable and rewarding experience for you and your customer is our priority.   We can also provide your members with a fully customized dashboard allowing them to see all their personal accessible content and information, a place to see all of their favourite posts, all of their uploads and downloadable content available only to them.

Call us today for a free consultation. The value you will get by speaking to one of our experts will be yours and will benefit you no matter what the outcome.

Custom WordPress Website For Your Business

There are many advantages to having a custom WordPress theme designed

If you are considering a website for your business, it’s important to also think of maintenance.  WordPress is an excellent platform for businesses looking to maintain their own website.  Even if the time is not permitted to maintain your own website, it is much easier and faster to find someone with the skill set to add to and maintain a WordPress themed website.

It is quickly becoming one of the most used platforms on the internet and why not? It can have the feel and look of just about anything your imagination can conjure up, with a knowledgeable developer.  It is also search engine friendly and with the newest security updates it has become a true business website.

Capable of handling gaming sites, forumse-commercemembership sites, fully integrated business websites and the list can go on with the features available in this platform.

We create custom functionality to make adding content to your website fun and easy.

The back-end of the website is as important and well thought out as the front end that your customers see.

After all, if you can not easily modify the content of your website, it becomes an inconvenience and a burden on your business.

Our skilled developers can create custom post types and templates to ensure adding content will always be simple for you, and will always look great.  All of our designs are fully responsive.

E Commerce WordPress Theme

To get more information on e-commerce websites

 E Commerce

A Small Example Of Customizing The Back-End Of Your Website

Let’s take a look at an example.  An important factor in converting a shopper into a client are great testimonials, but having a way to showcase your businesses’ testimonials is Custom post typessometimes a daunting task for someone busy running their day-to-day business.  By creating a custom post type for testimonials it becomes as easy as filling out a quick form. The custom template takes care of all the formatting for you.

In this case, clicking on the testimonial link will bring you to a page where you can quickly enter the information from the customer.

Testimonial template WordPress

The end result of filling out the simple form,  is a testimonial page which looks like this.

In this case the person who gave the testimony (name or business name) is at the bottom, and the date is at the top.

The testimonial is placed to the right of the page and separated from the image with a grey bar.  The image is automatically resized and converted into a circle.  Giving you that high-end, professional look.

With no effort on your part.

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Making WordPress Into A True CMS  (Content Management System)

With the capabilities of making multiple sets of categories, and placing that content in a customized layout, WordPress has come a long way in becoming a complete CMS.

 

 

Custom WordPress templates and layoutsA simple drop-down menu to select how your content will be displayed

Local Business Search Engine Optimization

Local Business Search Engine Optimization

With 97% of all local searches now being done online and 68% resulting in a phone call, local rankings have become just as important as a full-page ad used to be in the Yellow Pages.

We carry out a full analysis of where your business is listed and more importantly where it is not.  We analyze your top local competitors and compare their listings to find the most relevant and important citations ( directory listings) for your business.

We carry out a full analysis of all important NAP data (Name, Address, Phone number), business description, photos, reviews, star rating and more.

Is your listing verified? Are you listed in the right categories? How many reviews do you have and what is your star rating?  We use these insights to enhance your Google+ Local listing and drive your business up the search rankings.

Detailed On-site SEO Audit

We will identify problems, which may be holding your website back while looking for the most natural and local SEO factors. We report on factors such as visible keywords, company address, Google map links, rCard & hCard markup and the usuals – meta tags, h-tags, flash files, error pages etc…

Optimize Your Google+ Local SEO Profile

We do a complete side-by-side analysis of 5 of your top competitors.  We analyze the authority of their domain in their citations.  We then go to work on increasing the authority of your local business.

You will receive a complete PDF report of the strength of your business compared to your top competitors.  You can then easily see how your local business looks to the search engines. We hunt through Google to identify which directories & sites your business exists on and return a full list of websites with links straight to your Citation on each site.

Microdata & Schema, Rich Snippets

Full Implementation Of Rich Snippets And Structured Data

If you have ever wondered how some sites have star ratings underneath their listing images and thumbnails beside their listings, you’ve come to the right place. Microdata is coding that is placed within a site which lets search engines know what display it can be implemented for:

  • ReviewsRich snippet review example
  • People
  • Products
  • Businesses and organizations
  • Recipes
  • Events
  • Music
  • Videos
  • Authorship
  •  ArticlesMicrotiter with video thumbnail
  •  Restaurants
  •  Software applications
  •  TV episodes

 

How Can Schema  Help Your SEO

One of Google’s new algorithms called Hummingbird looks to ascertain the overall meaning of your webpage.  By providing rich snippets it allows easier understanding of search engines.  Ranking for the proper keywords and subjects are more important than just ranking.

Also, when Google introduced their algorithm Panda, one of its measurements was the click-through rate of a listing.  If more people click on your search result,  it is a clear indication that people have a higher interest in what you have to say,  therefore increasing your rankings.

Other than the right title to entice your prospect to click on your listing, it is making your listing stand out with:

  • a thumbnail of the video
  • having an image of the author
  • a larger listing by providing an event calendar
  • being able to see a star rating
  • seeing that it is a product page and product price right from the search results
  • able to identify local businesses with addresses and phone numbers
  • displaying multiple pages of  your site with a breadcrumb

These have improved all of our client’s click-through rates.

Simply put, they get more traffic.

Rich Snippets has a positive effect on current algorithms and is only getting stronger as searchers get more sophisticated and expect these features.

We currently integrate all necessary coding to implement rich snippets “structured data”. We then fully test the  coding to ensure proper functionality.