Do you know a group of people that need or want to keep in touch, that should have access to the same information, or that have a desire to share?
If so BuddyPress is an excellent solution.
BuddyPress is a free open-source Internet community-building WordPress plug-in that is compatible with WordPress 3.0.
Why should I use BuddyPress?
BuddyPress is an easy-to-use and powerful software that transforms a WordPress installation into a social networking website. Do you have a profile on Facebook, MySpace, or another HUGE social networking site? BuddyPress does the same thing and gives you control! You can create a social network for your baseball team, church, Parent Teacher Association, book club, bowling team, hunting buddies, a focus group for your marketing idea, or anything other group of people.
BuddyPress is a perfect way to share information, stay in touch, and be connected.
Is BuddyPress easy to use?
You simply install BuddyPress as a plug-in to your WordPress installation. It works immediately with the default theme that is downloaded with the plug-in.
As the administrator of your niche social networking site, you have the ability to add and remove features. You can start with as many or as few features you chose. As you become more familiar and comfortable with the features, website, and users you can add functionality.
What functionality does BuddyPress provide?
BuddyPress is a robust software that can provide: extended profiles, private messaging, blogging, activity streams, friend connections, and more. Remember it can be as uncomplicated or as complicated as you decided.
Extended profiles give you control over the profile fields. You have the ability to modify fields so that they are suitable for your group.
Private messaging allows users to send email-like messages to each other and to multiple other users.
The blogging feature goes back to the underlying software of BuddyPress, WordPress. Your users have the ability create their own blogs and other users can write comments on posts. Essentially, they can create rich WordPress blogs.
Activity streams are the ongoing record of the activity of friends. There are several different levels of streams; personal, group, and global. Each level has direct posting, @mentioning, and favoriting. Also, these streams have email notification and RSS feed support.
Friend connections are the foundation of a social networking site. BuddyPress allows people to connect and to filter those they want to follow in their activity stream.
If the standard BuddyPress features are not enough, there are over 125 BuddyPress plug-ins that allow for additional functionality.
What do you need to use BuddyPress?
BuddyPress runs on WordPress and is fully-compatible with the most current release of WordPress, which is 3.0. You must have a working installation of WordPress or WordPress Multi-User (WPMU) 2.9.1 or higher.
A few back-end requirements that you may want to talk with your hosting company about: mod_rewrite Apache must be enabled, MySQL 4.1 or higher, and PHP version 4.3 or higher.
WordPress 3.2 version the requirements have changed and you need check with your host if they have
PHP 5.2.4 or greater
MySQL 5.0 or greater
The mod_rewrite Apache module
About Govindji Patel
I am Author/Publisher WordPress Coach and Consultant who enjoys writing tutorials and helping wordpress users build better WordPress website/blog.
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