Creating an engaging online community requires a theme that supports interaction, networking, and membership management. The Aardvark – Community Membership BuddyPress Theme is a robust BuddyPress theme designed to cater to community and membership sites. This article explores the features, benefits, and best practices for using the Aardvark theme to build a thriving online community.
Who Is This Theme For?
Anyone and everyone really! Seriously, it’s a full multi-purpose theme. But specifically if you want to create a community, charge for membership access and sell online courses Aardvark – Community Membership BuddyPress Theme theme is perfect for you.
Code-free customisation
200+ theme options to easily create a great looking site to meet your specific needs without ever touching a piece of code.
Main Features
- BuddyPress compatible
- bbPress compatible
- WooCommerce compatible
- Paid Membership Pro compatible
- Sensei compatible
- Event Manager compatible
- Add reviews/ratings support to posts, pages, custom post types and comments
- Includes over $100 worth of premium plugins
- Clean code – no PHP notices and well documented
- 15 custom page builder elements/shortcodes
- SEO Ready and mobile optimised
- Intranet/extranet features (restrict access to site until logged in and dashboard interface)
- Multiple blog options – masonry, grids, lists, font and alignment control
- Ajax pagination and sorting of content
- Front-end ajax post submission and edit forms
- Post formats – Image, Gallery, Video, Audio, Aside, Status, Link, Quote, Standard
- One-click demo importer
- Retina support
- Multiple header layouts
- Custom pricing tables
- Icon fonts (FontAwesome included)
- Multiple menu styles (mega menus, post content, background images, icons etc.)
- 200+ theme options to control every aspect of the theme
- Change theme styling in real time with WP Live Customizer
- Social share options
- Social login support
- Front-end login, register and profile pages
- Top-class support
- Automatic and regular theme updates
- Full RTL support
- GDPR support
- Gutenberg Optimized
- Fully WPML compatible
Compatible Plugins
These plugins have been specifically designed to work with the theme and are completely free, as a result they are not bundled with the theme, but the theme can automatically install and set them up for you. If you require support for these plugins you should contact the plugin authors.
- BuddyPress – Unique design, masonry member/group display, mobile device friendly, notifications tab, members statistics, members/groups shortcodes
- rtMedia – Upload media to the activity stream or profile, comment and like media from other users, categorize media into albums
- BP Profile Search – Build custom members search forms, and custom members directories or search results pages, comes with custom shortcode
- bbPress – Add a fully functioning forum to your website
- Paid Memberships Pro – Create membership levels, restrict access based on these levels, charge for access, different homepages for different membership levels
- Sensei – A course management plugin that offers the smoothest platform for helping you teach anything (selling products requires premium Sensei Pro (WC Paid Courses) plugin)
- WordPress Social Login – Allow visitors to login using their existing social account
- WooCommerce – Create an online store with the most popular ecommerce plugin
- Yoast SEO – Complete SEO solution and adds breadcrumb support
- Events Manager – Create events, handle bookings with full BuddyPress integration.
- WPML – WPML makes it easy to build multilingual sites and run them. It’s powerful enough for corporate sites, yet simple for blogs.
Top-class Support
This theme comes with extensive documentation, knowledge base and video tutorials that explain how to set up and use every aspect of the theme. If you still have any questions visit our support site where we respond to all questions within 24 hours Monday to Friday.
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