Building a social networking community website with wordpress Mu

Jotted by brajesh on December 30, 2008

Well,there are times when you wish to build a social networking website with wordpress Mu.

The best solution available is buddypress(a set of plugins developed by Andy Peatling).

BuddyPress

Here is what they say about it on buddypress’s website

BuddyPress will transform an installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform.BuddyPress is a set of WordPress MU specific plugins, each plugin adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact

In my view, they are quiet right.I used buddypress on one of the  wordpress Mu based website of my client and it worked  very well.It is full of almost all features you need for a social networking website.

The most important thing is buddypress was acquired by Automattic(The parent company of wordpress),and is under active development.

Download the buddypress from its official website buddypress.org

Here is an excellent tutorial by Brad Williams on Installing buddypress.Chek out his article for installing and configuring buddypress with wordpress Mu.

I wished to share here something,I built a plugin to allow users to enter their own password,while registering for an account on wordpress Mu+buddypress integrated websites.

I will be sharing the plugin,as soon as I can write the details here.

Happy Social networking with buddypress and wordpress Mu.

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5 Responses to “Building a social networking community website with wordpress Mu”

  1. dedy21 says:
    March 20, 2009 at 3:40 pm

    i’ll try it soon…..thanks

    Reply
  2. Run Background Checks says:
    May 31, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    That’s a really cool idea. I did not know that wordpress was able to do that. Again shows why wordpress is such a powerful platform. Thanks for the information. I’ll create a small site for me and my close buddies. Cheers.

    Reply
  3. Tents says:
    July 5, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    Really cool idea. I need to try this out. May be make a social site for all my close friends. Thanks for the idea. Cheers

    Reply

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