BuddyPress, a plugin for WordPress, gives you all the features you need to create fully-capable social networking community, including the following:
- Extended Profiles: Members can fill in fields of information that let other members of the community get to know them better.
- Avatars: Members can upload a photo of themselves to display on their profile and various areas of the community.
- Friends: Members can connect by sending and accepting friendship requests and creating a list of friends within your community.
- Private Messages: Members can send and receive private messages from their friends within your community.
- Activity Streams: A display of all your activity within the community, such as comments, blog posts, friendships, wire posts, and group activity.
- Blog Tracking: A display of blog posts that a member has made on his blog(s) within the community.
- Forums: Allows community members to create and manage their own discussion forums.
- Groups: Powerful public, private or hidden groups allow your users to break discussion forums down into specific topics.
- Community Blogs: Using WordPress 3.0’s multi-site feature, users are able to create and manage their own websites within the community.
The really cool thing about BuddyPress is that you can activate or deactivate each feature individually— you can disable the ones you don’t think are necessary for your community. BuddyPress is extremely flexible and can be customized to your heart’s content.
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