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Introduction To
Social NetworkingWith Wordpress
What Is WordPress?
Popular blog (and CMS) platform.
Built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL.
Thousands of plugins that expand it's features.
Thousands of themes.
wordpress.org
What Is WordPress MU?
Allows you to run multiple blogs on same domain.
Sub-domain setup (david.superjail.com)
Sub-directory setup (superjail.com/david)
Managed by one admin control panel.
Plugins available for WPMU.
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What Is BuddyPress?
Set of plugins that adds social networking features to Wordpress MU.
Extends functionality of Wordpress (blogs, users)
Start a social network from scratch.
Add features to an existing blog network.
vAndy Peatling is a freelance web developer in Vancouver Canada. Chicspeak started the idea of Buddypress in beginning of 2007. Female college students to post journals online. Client requested social features, and afterwards Andy started to build these features as plugins you could drop in Wordpress MU. It was a side project, until Automatic employed Andy fulltime.
BuddyPress Components
Version 1.0 RC-1:
Extended ProfilesPrivate MessagingFriendsGroupsThe WireActivity StreamsBlogs
testbp.org
Extended Profiles
Private Messaging
Friends
Groups
The Wire
Activity Streams
Blogs
Examples of BuddyPress Sites
testbp.org
wannanetwork.com
explorewithme.com
solopracticeuniversity.com
BuddyPress Themes
Home theme most current themes can be adjusted
Profile themes
BuddyPress Plugins
Many Wordpress / WPMU plugins are easily adaptable.
If you can write plugins for Wordpress, you can learn to write them for BuddyPress.
Skeleton Component available.
Facebook Connect, OpenID, Twitter, Friendfeed, video, events, wp-cache, privacy plugins developed and being developed.
Coming In 2009
Status updates (via twitter, etc.)
Photo Albums (photo galleries, tagging, etc.)
New community developer network (launching soon)
New Community Developer Network
Why BuddyPress Could Be Big
By the end of 2009, BuddyPress could do for social networks what Wordpress has done for blogs.
Cons:
WPMU is a pain in the butt to install (compared to WP)
Limited hosting options (no shared hosting)
Lack of themes/plugins.
Pros:
After installing WPMU, plugins are relatively easy to install/configure.
Themes/plugins increase in 2009
Strong development network.
BuddyPress Resources
Urls:
buddypress.com/forums
codex.buddypress.org
buddypressdev.org
davidbisset.com
Twitter:
@josswinn
@trentadams
@andrea_r
@dimensionmedia
@mikepratt
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