What can WordPress Singapore Community can help us?

A short explanation of social networking websites and why they are popular and one of the reasons why the team is building WordPress Singapore with a more social experience.

In this community, the team will allows the community to have:

• User Profile Pages
• User Friending
• User Profile Posting (for friends)
• User Profile Post Commenting (for friends)
• Friend Activity Pages
• Full Member Directory
• Login & Navigation Widget
• Random or Recent Users Widget
• Email Notifications
• User Email Notification Opt-Outs

This plugin is brought you by Blair Williams and can be download from WordPress Plugin Directory.

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1. WP-PageNavi – 450,472 downloads
2. WP-Polls – 372,484 downloads
3. WP-PostRatings – 265,406 downloads
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6. WP-Print – 159,240 downloads
7. WP-UserOnline – 146,519 downloads
8. WP-EMail – 140,013 downloads
9. WP-Sticky – 112,613 downloads
10. WP-Stats – 79,665 downloads

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The Website
A group of young Singaporean Muslims generation who are concerns about sharing Islamic education to the next level. They have entered the element of creativity and technology in learning Islam, plan to make learning and sharing knowledge to better understand the content of education and educators be more creative in producing high quality materials to a religious knowledge.

Syukran has decided to adopt WordPress platform due to it’s simplicity, fast and effective content delivery. It is a dakwah and Islamic message that what’s the whole thing is all about. Hence with that motivation and objective in mind. Syukran focus on a model and method that suits the modern age with massive fast moving pace. With a system that is simple, fast & effective,it is the best model for producing any online materials like video, slides or audio and yet creating that rich creative culture to bring fun learning to the Muslims.

The Team
Consists of 3 young Singaporeans WordPress developer, Shahib Amin is the founder and creative director of Syukran. He is the designer and web developer behind the syukran.org website. He believes that every Asatizah should able to use the minimum rate of creativity and also good design in assist them in teaching. Shahib has also been invited to give lectures about visual thinking and creative education in Islam and conducted a few workshop based on design to the students.

While Ismail Hidayat is the content developers for Syukran. He focus on the fun and interesting bit of syukran’s multimedia. Hidayat believe that every Muslim has the right to receive comprehensive information about Islam. He believes that students and educators can work together to understand Islam in a way that more effectively. He specialize in Arabic language and education at the University of Umm Al-Quraa, Mecca.

Lastly, Ahmad Firdaus is the content strategic planning for Syukran. He manage and plan what’s best in term of education that syukran should develop. He believes now is the time to change the way they learn Islam compatible with the circulation period, where technology becomes the basic livelihood. Firdaus is major in Islamic jurisprudence and hopes it can be shared with the community using the Syukran way.

What is WordPress Singapore?
Started of the hype to form and organise WordPress Singapore in mid 2009. The team decided to formalise and introduce officially WordPress Singapore in early January 2010. WordPress is the world’s largest blog platform that focused exclusively using open source technology. With more than a million users, WordPress might be one of the leading blogging technology that has been adopted by today’s Internet generation. The target for WordPress Singapore is to be the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what’s new in the WordPress Singapore community and offering WordPress’s resources and guides. WordPress Singapore target audience includes early adopters, social media enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, influencers, brands and corporations, marketing, PR and advertising agencies, Web 2.0 aficionados, educators, academics and technology journalists.

To advertise or participate on WordPress Singapore, please come back here again, the team will update you soon with the details.