Turn WordPress Into a Social Network Platform

Posted in Social Media, Web 2.0 on Thursday May 7th, 2009

buddyress

WordPress and Automattic, announced the release of BuddyPress last week on the official WordPress site. The BuddyPress site is live, with free downloads and installation instructions for BuddyPress 1.0 – which expands a typical WordPress blog installation into a full social network with most of the features of mySpace, Facebook, Ning, and other popular sites.

To take a look at the BuddyPress demo site, visit: http://testbp.org/

BuddyPress includes user profiles, private messaging, friends / buddylists, groups, activity streams, a wall / stream like section called “the wire” for status updates and tweet-like on-site micro-blogging, in addition to multi-user blogs and forums.



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2 Comments

  1. Anika says:
    May 29, 2009 at 11:54 am

    Very interesting read, I think their would be a lot of mixed opinions on this. Love the theme that you are using, what is it?

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  2. Web 2.0 Marketing says:
    June 25, 2009 at 4:21 am

    I have visited the buddypress site and it is really nice with lots of options.

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