27 Aug, 2008
My WordCamp Notes: BuddyPress with Andy Peatling
Posted by: x10 In: Conference notes| Open Source
The Presentation Slideshow is below.
BuddyPress is an extension to WordPress which will allow WP to be a full fledged social network. This means, that you can use it to make your own “Facebook” of sorts. It’s currently under development but it is very close (they are predicting December).
BuddyPress is well thought out. It lets you (as the administrator) customize different parts of the installation to suit your needs. For example, if you are making a network for dog lovers, you can add your own fields to each user’s profile like (I have __ dogs. Favourite dogpark: ___. etc) It also lets you have private messaging between members, friending and photo albums.
It’s pretty crazy that this is free and open source. WP is getting more and more impressive.
