WordPress going Social
The guys at Automattic have been working on a plugin for WordPress Mu; a derivative of WordPress that allows you to have multiple blogs controlled and maintained from one central point. This plugin has been dubbed BuddyPress.
From the name you can easily guess what it will do and what it will do is going to change the social arena for good. Many of the features that are being worked on are features that you will find on any of the major Social Networking site such as Facebook or MySpace and so on but obviously as the creator of WordPress, Matthew Mullenweg, seeming tries to do with every bit of code he is involved in is try and make it 100 times better.
Features that BuddyPress will most likely have are:
- Extended WordPress profiles
- Personal Blog
- Private Messaging - probably the most used feature on FaceBook
- Friends - the reason social networks exsist
- Group - will most likely aggregate group members posts with a special group tag
- The Wire - aka The Wall on FaceBook
- Albums
- Status Updates
There are also big roads into adding additional features with many developers coming to the party. Add ons such as forums in groups will be available which will allow for a very customizable networking site.
All these features will allow people to easily create a scalable Niche Social Networking website with a few clicks of a button. I cannot wait to add it on to one or two of my websites which will really give it the final touch I have been looking for for so long.
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