Again if you’re going to try to create a site that actually competes with those companies you might want to raise some money and get a team of developers to build something custom, but if you’re doing something maybe for a niche something very specific to create type of of crowdfunding campaigns um you can do that on WordPress. So you can actually create a website similar to like Kickstarter or Indiegogo where you’re having crowdfunding. So the next one this one is probably a little lesser known and that’s a crowdfunding site.
Those are the big two i recommend Lifter lms you can actually get started for free and then you just pay for the extensions that you need so you can build an awesome online course site using Lifter lms and Learndash. So no surprise there you can use tools like lift or lms or learn dash and there’s other ones too. Bbpress there’s probably others now too but i’ve used Bbpress and it was it was great so this one is probably a little more common. So forums can be really really powerful and so you can do that using WordPress. All the different things that go on with that there’s adoption forums and there’s car forums there’s gamer for their forums in every single topic you can imagine WordPress forums. And Bbpress will power your forum on WordPress, and so i built a site it was for um a company uh that led uh surrogacy for parents who could have kids biologically and so they built a forum to help people answer questions and get help for everything. And so you can use Bbpress which is by automatic the founders of WordPress. And typically use for some sort of help forum and so you can actually build a forum website using WordPress. Now forums definitely aren’t as popular as they were in the early days of the internet, but a forum is basically uh they’re usually like niche focused uh within different industries and it’s just a place to do posts and have people comment on the posts and stuff.
So the first one is social community, the second one is a forum. So definitely go and check out wphub.social. And i believe he uses Peepso to power uh his social community that’s for WordPress web designers specifically. He has WPhub.social uh definitely check it out, if you haven’t already. And so i’m actually shout out to uh Justin who’s a friend of uh of the podcast. Peepso uh is um probably more feature rich and it’ll allow you to build a social network with accounts and profiles and messaging and commenting and a feed and all those types of features. And so for example you can use tools like Buddy Press or Peepso. But if you want to have some sort of internal community some sort of of social network type of thing uh for for whatever website you have, you can do that on WordPress. Now i’m not suggesting that you should go out and try to build a competitor to Facebook or Twitter or Tik Tok or whatever with using WordPress. And so um let’s go ahead and get started. And so i want to share five different types of complex websites this is by no means a complete list there’s all different types of complex things that can be accomplished with WordPress. But um sometimes you might not be aware of everything that WordPress can do if you’ve never looked into and researched it and been faced with the task of building a type of website like this. And so forth everyone knows you can build e-commerce websites using Woocommerce and the other platforms out there. Now obviously everyone knows you can build a blog with WordPress you can build a business website like for small businesses, like brochure style websites. 00:28 Tim Strifler: Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of WP The Podcast i’m Tim Strifler and today we are talking about five types of complex websites that you can build with WordPress.