Dating websites are another of the many possibilities that can be exploited in WordPress. Learn how to create a dating website with this tutorial.
What is a dating website?
It can be said that a dating website is a well-achieved hybrid between the membership websites and one social network. Because, when we talk about a dating website, we refer to those websites where its visitors sign up to interact with each other and get to know each other.
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If the purpose interactive and social of a dating page seems strange to you, it is possible that, due to those language peculiarities, you are confusing appointments (of knowing each other) with appointments (of famous phrases). But they are different things, and then we will deal with the second, and we will teach you to create a niche of quotes in WordPress.
At the moment we are going to make many couples meet.
Prepared?
What does it take to create a dating website in WordPress?
We will start by saying that there is no single way to create a website of this type. The possibilities are many, here we explain one of the many possible ways. To carry out your project and you can be a kind of cupid webmaster, you will need:
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An active WordPress installationIn other words, a domain configured on a host, where you have already installed WordPress. If you want help in this particular you can watch this tutorial:
What is WordPress and how to install it (Step by Step Guide)
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Knowledge about WordPress, if you need to hone your skills you can do right now signing up today for the best WordPress course in Spanish available online What are you waiting to sign up?
Prepared?
We get down to work.
Choosing a dating website template
Pages of this type have a very particular aesthetic. Take a look at pages like:
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Match.com
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OkCupid.com
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eHarmony.com
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This can be achieved with a template Of the many that exist the repository of WordPress themes. But if you want your website to cause a good impression get ready to buy a theme.
Come on, if you want people to fall in love with your website, you must first make them fall in love with the aesthetics of your site. So we cannot fail to mention the relevance of the branding: a good name, a Visual identity impeccable and those details that we always warn you about.
In case you have decided to buy a specialized theme for a dating website these are some good options:
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Sweet date
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Datebook
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LoveStory
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Dating Paradise
Enabling the membership zone
In previous tutorials we have talked to you in detail about the potential of the websites of membership. Now for your dating website to be monetizable you need to enable a functionality that allows you to charge your members.
The option most used by most sites is the plugin Paid MemberShip Pro. But it is not the only way to charge your users. Plugins like Ultimate Member they allow you to enable user profiles at the same time.
Our recommendation?
That you try at least a couple of the many that exist and choose the one that best suits your needs.
Activating the member functionality
The number of recurring members will determine the success of your dating site. Tools like BuddyPress They will take care of that part of the work.
Surely you already noticed: Paid MemberShip Pro incorporates profiles, but if we want a dating website we need to give each profile more functionalities. BuddyPress puts at your disposal a set of tools that will allow you to make your website the closest thing to a social network.
Powering the search engine
Do you know what people do when they sign up on a dating site?
They start to search among the members to their possible candidates.
But if we want users to find each other, we must give search power.
How do we do this?
We can create our own custom plugin with this feature or, if we are in a hurry to install: BP Profile Search.
BP Profile Search works with BuddyPress and it will allow your website users to search for each other according to their tastes and interests. What this plugin does is enable searches by criteria of age, gender, location, etc.
I already followed all the steps and I already have my dating website. Now what?
Once you have your website ready, you need users.
To achieve this, it is best to create a blog on your website. We live by reminding you of the relevance of content marketing to attract visitors and prospects to your website and this will not be the exception.
If you look at it, the leading websites in the dating world have blogs with related content to the theme. It costs you nothing to add one more page to your website and start generating content.
The other thing that you should not stop doing is promoting work in the social networks. For this it is best to enable share buttons in each section of the blog as we have already taught you on other occasions.
