GatherPress vs GRA4 Social Network

Running a meetup, a user group, a conference, or a class? GatherPress gives you what you need to publish events, collect RSVPs, and keep everyone in the loop, all from your own WordPress site. Your events live on your site. You own the data, you control how it looks, and you keep the relationship with the people who show up. GatherPress is built by the WordPress community for the people who organize it: meetup organizers, WordCamp teams, user groups, and anyone else who gets people together in a room. It is free, open source, and shaped by the people using it every day. What you can do Publish events with the date, time, venue, and everything people need to know Collect RSVPs, with anonymous listing for attendees who would rather not be named Let people RSVP without an account, so nobody bounces off a signup wall Let attendees bring guests Email everyone who is coming, or everyone who is not, without leaving WordPress Run events in person, online, or both, with maps for physical venues Build and arrange it all in the block editor Multisite ready and fully translatable Try it before you install Hit the Live Preview button on this page to open a working demo in your browser. No signup, no setup, and real data to click around in. Prefer to watch first? There is a short intro demo. Join our community GatherPress is built in the open, and contributions are always welcome, whether that is code, translations, documentation, or just telling us what broke. Get involved Contributor guide Open issues on GitHub External Services This plugin connects to external services to provide address autocomplete, geocoding, and map tiles for venues. Each service has its own filter so you can point at a self-hosted alternative or disable the feature. Photon geocoding (photon.komoot.io) Used to resolve venue addresses into latitude/longitude coordinates and to power the address autocomplete dropdown while editing a venue. The plugin proxies these requests server-side: your WordPress site sends the search query string and a User-Agent identifying the site (plugin version, WordPress version, site home URL) to the Photon API. Responses are cached on your site for 15 minutes. Photon homepage / terms: https://photon.komoot.io/ Komoot privacy policy: https://www.komoot.com/privacy Override the endpoint (for a self-hosted Photon instance) with the gatherpress_photon_api_url filter. CARTO Basemaps (basemaps.cartocdn.com) Default map tile provider when the OpenStreetMap map platform is selected. When a venue map is displayed on the front end or in the editor, the visitor’s browser requests raster tiles directly from basemaps.cartocdn.com. No data beyond the standard tile coordinates (zoom, x, y) and the visitor’s IP / browser headers is sent. CARTO terms: https://carto.com/legal/ CARTO privacy policy: https://carto.com/privacy/ Override the tile URL or attribution with the gatherpress_interactive_map_tile_url and gatherpress_interactive_map_tile_attribution filters. Google Maps (maps.googleapis.com, www.google.com, maps.google.com) Alternative map provider, only used when a site opts in by choosing “Google Maps” in GatherPress settings. What the visitor’s browser requests depends on whether a Google Maps API key is configured: With an API key, the browser loads the Maps JavaScript API from maps.googleapis.com and renders the map in the page. Without a key, or if that script fails to load, the browser embeds a Google Maps iframe from www.google.com or maps.google.com instead. Either way the request carries the venue coordinates, the visitor’s IP, and standard browser headers. A configured API key travels with the request and is visible in the page source, so restrict it by HTTP referrer in Google Cloud. Google Maps terms: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/ Google privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Map and address data used by Photon and CARTO are sourced from OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright).

After single two-minute-long installation your website will have social features: activity, friends, likes, groups, messaging, market and much more. What this plugin is for: Big social networks put plenty of websites out of business, because anyone can create a group on a major Social Network (such as Facebook, VKontakte, LinkedIn, Odnoklassniki, etc.), and it’s much easier than to build and support your own website. We want to get web-masters back into the game, arming them with the same functionality the “grown-up” social networks have. Try the Demo see the demo at http://wordpress.ucq.me or pick one of the GRA4 partner websites from the Partner Networks List or create your own sandbox on free hosting ucq.me (‘you seek me’) Video Presentation http://wiki.gra4.com/Main_Page#GRA4_Social_Network_Video_Presentation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bJVrxEG7qQ&hd=1 Installation Video Guide: http://en.wiki.gra4.com/GRA4_for_WordPress_Installation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd9vvRViXp4&hd=1 You can download and install GRA4 Social Network using the standard WordPress plugin installer. Activate the GRA4 Social Network Plugin in the “Plugins” admin panel using the “Activate” link, continue with the Settings. Navigate to the page you’ve just created, and enjoy the Social Networking. Done! Optional: For some custom themes you may use the admin interface (look for “GRA4 Settings” in the admin menu) to adjust the social content position. Wiki GRA4 Wiki: http://wiki.gra4.com/ Customization Use the admin interface (look for “GRA4 Settings” in the admin menu) to adjust the social content position. See Video Tutorial at the http://gra4.com/wiki/GRA4_for_WordPress_Settings for details. If you need deeper customization, edit style file custom.css in your wp-content/plugins/gra4/css/ directory. GRA4 content is about 1000px wide, so we also recommend to switch off sidebars for the GRA4 page if the theme offers such option. Compatibility GRA4 Social Network supplies the dynamic content even for non-logged users of your website. Therefore if you use caching plugins, we recommend to switch of the caching for all pages bellow the http://your_website.com/gra4/… Support Groups General: http://gra4.com/groups/profile/94/gra4-webmasters/ WordPress: http://gra4.com/groups/profile/98/gra4-webmasters-wordpress Demo see the demo at http://wordpress.ucq.me or pick one of the operational websites from the Partner Networks List at http://gra4.com/networks or create your own playground on free hosting http://ucq.me Wiki http://wiki.gra4.com/ Support Groups General: http://gra4.com/groups/profile/94/gra4-webmasters/ WordPress: http://gra4.com/groups/profile/98/gra4-webmasters-wordpress