BuddyPress

In this day and age when Internet connectivity is everywhere, many social networking sites keep you connected to your friends and what they are doing. These social sites enable surfers to meet, interact with, chat, and share videos and pictures with people from all over the globe. Among the many such programs and coding that helps social sites one that is unique and revolutionary is BuddyPress. WordPress has become the most popular blogging platform in the world and Buddypress is a plugin that adds a new level of social interaction to it. BuddyPress is absolutely free and open source, and has many fantastic features that web developers and users will like.

Many of the social sites available today are a hosted services, which mean that the users or owners of such sites have little control over them. But in BuddyPress, one is able to create a customized experience, with almost any features one may want to incorporate. BuddyPress is ideal for one who intends to build a social network for their companies, schools, teams, and so forth. It is worth noting that a good social networking site ought to be easy to navigate through for any user, regardless of whether they are doing it for the first time. BuddyPress is that type of site and to acknowledge it even more, every user has a profile that can be edited and can allow users to fill in their details. Such details may include describing themselves, their likes, hobbies, job, and so forth. BuddyPress also has a full RSS feeds, not to mention an email notification support so it is easy to stay up to date with what others are doing.

Nowadays many teenagers and even adults are spending a considerable amount of their time on social sites meeting new people, interacting and so forth. With BuddyPress, users can go ahead and be able to track the activities of their friends or family and even filter the users that they care about most. Besides, users will be glad to note that there is private messaging which enables you to talk to directly to another member in a more private manner than a blog or wall comment. This is not to say that one can only talk to one person at a time, but rather, one can even send messages to more than one recipient. Group users can also comment on other and write their own blog posts. These blog posts or articles are grouped into your own personal blog that you can give the address to people on.

As the crew at Auttomatic have recently bought BuddyPress and brought it in house it has become better and better and now even bigger things are expected with the new integration of WordPress and WPMU in version 3.0 which is just weeks away from being released.