How I built a social media platform (ideaness.org) with no code?

My goal here is to show that even without any technical skills, one can build very cool websites.

As a non technical guy, I unsurprisingly chose wordpress to build my website. 

There are are actually several social networking plugin for wordpress:

https://www.peepso.com/

https://www.buddyboss.com/

I think that they would have both worked out for me but I eventually opted for Peepso. I started with the free version and then upgraded (199$) to be able to add useful features to the website:

  • A job board,
  • A marketplace,
  • A built-in messaging app.

Concretely:

– I watched plenty of Youtube tutorials. For example:

– I checked the videos on peepso Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@PeepSo

– I searched through Peepso’s documentation. For example, to override the text of some of their pre-built pages.

– I contacted Peepso’s online support when I was stuck.

The plugin is not perfect and not 100% flexible but I always found some workarounds and after 2 weeks I got an operational website I was happy with. I worked on this early in the morning or late in the evening.

Please let me know in the comments if you have any questions.

All the best

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