Recently, this question has come to mind. One of the current projects that I am looking at is looking at creating a type of social media structure. Of course there are many tools out there that “help” you to create social media web sites. BuddyPress is one that appears to add social media type functionality to WordPress installation. That definitely peaked my interest.
Being a huge fan of WordPress, BuddyPress is something that I need to further research for this project. BuddyPress appears to offer most of the common tools: Activity Streams, Profiles, Groups, Friend Connections, Private Messaging, Discussion Forums, and of course WordPress blogging. That would be most of the functions that any social media type site would require.
Another huge factor to consider about BuddyPress is the fact that it is a set of plug-ins for the WordPress architecture. That means that you can also implement from the wealth of WordPress plug-ins. This should allow you to have many pieces of functionality right at your fingertips.
Over the next week, I am going to install an instance of WordPress and BuddyPress and start taking a look at the functions. Hopefully very soon I can report back my findings on BuddyPress.
Have you used BuddyPress? Let me know what you think
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