BuddyPress
Are you looking for modern, robust, and sophisticated social network software? BuddyPress is a suite of components that are common to a typical social network, and allows for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system. Aimed at site builders & developers, BuddyPress is focused on ease of integration, ease of use, and extensibility. It is deliberately powerful yet unbelievably simple social network software, built by contributors to WordPress. Members can register on your site to create user profiles, have private conversations, make social connections, create and interact in groups, and much more. Truly a social network in a box, BuddyPress helps you build a home for your company, school, sports team, or other niche community. Built with developers in mind BuddyPress helps site builders & developers add community features to their websites. It comes with a robust theme compatibility API that does its best to make every BuddyPress content page look and feel right with just about any WordPress theme. You will likely need to adjust some styling on your own to make everything look pristine. BuddyPress themes are just WordPress themes with additional templates, and with a little work, you could easily create your own, too! A handful of BuddyPress-specific themes are readily available for download from WordPress.org, and lots more are available from third-party theme authors. BuddyPress also comes with built-in support for Akismet and bbPress, two very popular and very powerful WordPress plugins. If you’re using either, visit their settings pages and ensure everything is configured to your liking. The BuddyPress Add-ons WordPress.org is home to some amazing Add-ons for BuddyPress, including: BP Attachments BP Classic NB: BP Classic is a backwards compatibility Add-on for BuddyPress 12.0 and up bringing back the BP Legacy URL parser, the BP Default theme and BP Legacy widgets. Go to BuddyPress profile on WordPress.org to find them all! Join our community If you’re interested in contributing to BuddyPress, we’d love to have you. Head over to the BuddyPress Documentation site to find out how you can pitch in. BuddyPress is available in many languages thanks to the volunteer efforts of individuals all around the world. Check out our translations page on the BuddyPress Documentation site for more details. If you are a polyglot, please consider helping translate BuddyPress into your language. Growing the BuddyPress community means better software for everyone!
GRA4 Social Network
After single two-minute-long installation your website will have social features: activity, friends, likes, groups, messaging, market and much more. What this plugin is for: Big social networks put plenty of websites out of business, because anyone can create a group on a major Social Network (such as Facebook, VKontakte, LinkedIn, Odnoklassniki, etc.), and it’s much easier than to build and support your own website. We want to get web-masters back into the game, arming them with the same functionality the “grown-up” social networks have. Try the Demo see the demo at http://wordpress.ucq.me or pick one of the GRA4 partner websites from the Partner Networks List or create your own sandbox on free hosting ucq.me (‘you seek me’) Video Presentation http://wiki.gra4.com/Main_Page#GRA4_Social_Network_Video_Presentation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bJVrxEG7qQ&hd=1 Installation Video Guide: http://en.wiki.gra4.com/GRA4_for_WordPress_Installation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd9vvRViXp4&hd=1 You can download and install GRA4 Social Network using the standard WordPress plugin installer. Activate the GRA4 Social Network Plugin in the “Plugins” admin panel using the “Activate” link, continue with the Settings. Navigate to the page you’ve just created, and enjoy the Social Networking. Done! Optional: For some custom themes you may use the admin interface (look for “GRA4 Settings” in the admin menu) to adjust the social content position. Wiki GRA4 Wiki: http://wiki.gra4.com/ Customization Use the admin interface (look for “GRA4 Settings” in the admin menu) to adjust the social content position. See Video Tutorial at the http://gra4.com/wiki/GRA4_for_WordPress_Settings for details. If you need deeper customization, edit style file custom.css in your wp-content/plugins/gra4/css/ directory. GRA4 content is about 1000px wide, so we also recommend to switch off sidebars for the GRA4 page if the theme offers such option. Compatibility GRA4 Social Network supplies the dynamic content even for non-logged users of your website. Therefore if you use caching plugins, we recommend to switch of the caching for all pages bellow the http://your_website.com/gra4/… Support Groups General: http://gra4.com/groups/profile/94/gra4-webmasters/ WordPress: http://gra4.com/groups/profile/98/gra4-webmasters-wordpress Demo see the demo at http://wordpress.ucq.me or pick one of the operational websites from the Partner Networks List at http://gra4.com/networks or create your own playground on free hosting http://ucq.me Wiki http://wiki.gra4.com/ Support Groups General: http://gra4.com/groups/profile/94/gra4-webmasters/ WordPress: http://gra4.com/groups/profile/98/gra4-webmasters-wordpress
