BuddyPress: Social Wordpress

BuddyPress is a suite of plugins for WordpressMU that will work together to create a social network of your own.

The Wordpress.com network is already pretty social. And a WordpressMU installation allows you to do the same thing, but on your own turf. But since Andy at Automattic.com created a fully-featured social network last year using WordpressMU, called ChickSpeak, he’s been working on BuddyPress.

BuddyPress is a suite of plugins for WordpressMU that will work together to create a social network of your own. You can download the plugins from GoogleCode.

Each plugin handles a separate BuddyPress feature, meaning you can pick and choose which features you want to include.

BuddyPress Messaging

Features

Core Functionality

  • Site home page can be a syndication of all member content, or a central blog.
  • Member home pages containing profile, friends list, group list, latest blog posts, latest chatterboard (AKA wall) posts, albums.
  • Member dashboard showing syndication of friend’s activity.
  • Ability to activate and deactivate optional components (if you don’t want messaging, you can leave it out).

    • Extended Profiles

  • Complete customization of member profile fields by site admin.
  • Profile pictures.
  • Easy interface for members to build their profile.

    • Messaging

  • Private messaging for all site members.
  • Inbox, Sentbox, Draft messages.
  • Easy inline reply and forwarding of messages.
  • Use of TinyMCE for HTML formatted messages.

    • Friends

  • Listing of all friends.
  • Pending and sent friend request view.
  • Friend finder to search all members.
  • Add/Remove friends.

    • Groups

  • Group search
  • Ability to create groups
  • Friend finder

    • Chatterboard (AKA Wall)

  • Post messages on friend’s profiles
  • Chatterboard to chatterboard view between friends

    • Albums

  • Create albums with titles and descriptions.
  • Upload photos via web interface
  • Tag friends in photos

    • Blog

  • Each member will have a fully functional Wordpress blog.

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