GRA4 Social Network arms WordPress engine with social network functionality.
Friends, likes, activity streams, groups, messaging, events and more.
Description
Big social networks put plenty of websites out of commission - anyone can create a group, say, on Facebook,
and it's much easier than to build and support whole website.
Now we want to get web-masters back into the game, arming them with the same functionality major social networks have.
GRA4 Social Network adds to WordPress engine features like friends, activity streams, groups, likes, messaging, forums, events, files, Twitter-connected microblogging, market and much,much more.
Automatic Installation
- 1. Activate GRA4 Social Network in the "Plugins" admin panel using the "Activate" link.
- 2. Done! Navigate to your GRA4 page no finish the initialization, and enjoy the Social Networking.
- 3. (Optional) Use the Admin interface to configure the appearance.
Manual Installation
- 1. Make sure at *Settings -> Permalinks -> Common Settings* your WordPress uses anything but "Default" (sorry, SEO-friendly URLs required).
- 2. Create a new page for your GRA4 social network to display on.
- 3. Make Visibility of this page "Public"
- 4. Edit Permalink of the page, set it to gra4
- 5. Under HTML tab add text [GRA4_CONTENT] , publish the page.
- 6. Activate GRA4 Social Network in the "Plugins" admin panel using the "Activate" link.
- 7. Done! Navigate to the GRA4 page no finish the initialization, and enjoy the Social Networking.
- 8. (Optional) Use the Admin interface to configure the appearance.
Wiki
GRA4 Wiki
Customization
This plugin is tested on the standard themes.
If you using custom themes, or just want your GRA4 to look a bit different,
rename file custom.css_ in your wp-content/plugins/gra4/css/ directory as custom.css and edit.
Width of the GRA4 content set to 1000px;The width of the content is about 1000px, so we recommend to start with wide template with no sidebars.
Compatibility
This plugin may not work with another plugins producing output on the pages not belonging to them. So far we've discovered at least two of such plugins.
If even on "Twenty Eleven" theme you see GRA4 page looks shifted to the right and bottom, try to deactivate another plugins one-by-one.
We are going to work with plugin authors to resolve this issue, so please report such plugins in the support group, and we are going contact the developers to resolve this issue.
Frequently asked questions
Why do I want this feature?
Well, your users get plenty of new functionality, and you (as website owner) get lots of content and page views.
Does this plugin use IFRAME tag ?
Nope. The social content you getting belongs to your website. It is your native content even for search engines.
I don't want any outside code on my server! What about security?
No codes is executed on your website besides the ones provided by the plugin. From gra4.com you are getting not the code, but the data your website relays to the visitor's browser. To make sure look through the plugin code.
Ok, I've installed the plugin and connected to the GRA4 network. What's next?
See the "Support Groups" section - it will provide you with the links. Although you pretty much all set - your users already have social networking functionality.
I don't like how the social content looks. Can I change it?
Please see the "Customization" section. It's not a biggie to change the looks.
Is this plugin compatible with all others?
Unfortunately not, at least now we know of two such plugins. Long story short: look through the "Compatibility" section above.
Support Groups
General:
http://gra4.com/groups/profile/94/gra4-webmasters/
WordPress:
http://gra4.com/groups/profile/98/gra4-webmasters-wordpress/