Build Own User Generated Content Site Using WordPress

User generated content (UGC) or Consumer Generated Media (CGM) is a kind of media which it’s main content is publicly available, and produced by it’s user (end user). Kind of user generated content site is like Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Metacafe, YouTube, Discussion Forums, Classified Ads Site, and many more.

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Actually, with WordPress and a little bit creativity you can build your own user generated content site. And you may need some of these plugins:

TDO Mini Forms

Developed by thedeadone.net, TDO Mini Forms plugins help you to build extremely cool and powerful submission forms. You can use it to make forms where users able to submit their contents to your site.

I made few website with this plugin, such as a classified ads site, makassariklan.com.

Any Contact Forms Plugins

Read this tutorial about how to post using email, and use your logic to implement any contact form plugins such as Contact Form 7, CForms, or another contact form plugins to that tutorial.

WordPress Forum Plugins

Forums or discussion board site is a kind of user generated conted site. And you can use WordPress to make your own discussion board site. You can choose Bbpress, Simple:Press, or even Forum Server plugin to build your forum site. If you are using another CMS for your forums site, like phpBB, you can implement this system to your WordPress site using phpBB Recent Topics plugin, or Wp2BB plugin.

Creativity + Logic + WordPress Power

You can also build your own User Generated Content, even without any additional plugins. Just WordPress! How come? Read this cool tutorial.

Happy Blogging

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About Mustamar Natsir

A WordPress lover, blogger, young netpreneur from Makassar, Indonesia. CEO of web developer company M2N Studio. Always available at email: ask[at]mustamar.com.
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2 Responses to Build Own User Generated Content Site Using WordPress

  1. user manuals says:

    thanks.. but im not good at php or html, im new in blogging but this tutorial give me big inspiration to make user generated content blogsite.. thanks natsir.

    alice.

  2. Thanks for those 3 options. I think I shall create my own if I don’t like how the first two options do not offer the features I require. Thanks again

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