A couple of months ago, we interviewed a few of our customers and asked them what are the challenges they face when it comes to creating online communities. The most common challenge was how to grow the community.

Google Plus should have been an Internet giant, a social network to put fear into the heart of Mark Zuckerberg. Instead it became the giant butt of Internet jokes, a place you go to on the Internet when you want to be by yourself. Its failure has lessons for anyone building a private social network.

The PeepSo plugin family is about to grow… and it’s going to grow big! The 1.7.0 release is massive. This release consists of 132 developer tasks, added a pile of new features, improvements, bug fixes, and a whole host of cool stuff. But most of them will be gathered under: New [GROUPS] GroupSo Plugin on our changelog.

As you probably know, we’ve been working on revolutionizing social networking for WordPress, providing a much better alternative to BuddyPress.

PeepSo 1.6.0 comes packed with new features and improvements. In my previous blog posts I told you about the PeepSo core improvements, the new ProfileSo plugin and about the six new widgets that make your community even more engaging. In this post I’ll tell you about the improvements and new features that we’ve added to…

In my last blog post I introduced PeepSo 1.6.0, explained all the core enhancements and new features… and mentioned that we also have some new and much-needed widgets. They’re very cool!

We’ve been working on Customizable Profile Fields for some time. We wanted to make them just right for you and for your community.

At PeepSo, we hold a management meeting once a week. We do it over a slap-up breakfast. Anyway, at our last meeting, Merav suggested that some of us should take a break from paradise and travel… to a WordCamp conference. It went something like this…

PeepSo is now six months old! (Yeah, we partied.) And we wanted to reward our users.