The developer of chickspeak - a wordpress mu based social network has a post where he covers osme of how he when about making the site. I’ll eventually (hopefully) post some more info on this as I’m currently doing this with a project, although i should admit I’m hacking and plugging instead of just plugging [...]
The developer of chickspeak - a wordpress mu based social network has a post where he covers osme of how he when about making the site. I’ll eventually (hopefully) post some more info on this as I’m currently doing this with a project, although i should admit I’m hacking and plugging instead of just plugging :(.
I recently completed my biggest project yet; a fully fledged social network aimed at female college students. The difference? It’s built on Wordpress MU.
Wordpress MU (WPMU) is basically the multi-user version of Wordpress, the popular blog/cms tool. The aim of WPMU is to allow for one installation to spawn multiple Wordpress blog instances. Basically, you can install WPMU on your server and run as many individual Wordpress instances as your box can handle.
Wordpress MU has the basics of a social network right out of the box - individual member blogs, member profiles and the ability to scale well.
Don’t Hack - Just PlugWordpress also has an excellent plugin API, as well as a whole host of quality pre-built plugins ready to download and activate. The key here is that I didn’t have to hack the core - I could just achieve the additional functionality needed by building
check it out:
http://www.blazenewmedia.com/articles/chickspeak-a-wordpress-mu-based-social-network