Aral Balkan - WordPress supports BuddyPress, goes social.

WordPress supports BuddyPress, goes social.

Wordpress MU, the multi-user version of the Wordpress blogging engine powers gazillions of blogs on Wordpress.com and is to get social networking features following Automattic's hiring of BuddyPress creator Andy Peatling.

The BuddyPress site is currently moving servers but you can still get the open source BuddyPress code from Google Code.

I just had a quick look at the code; the core features (profiles, friends, and messaging) have been implemented and it looks promising.

I'm still debating which (if any) existing platform to base the social networking aspects of Singularity on. The top contender so far is Drupal but, the more I look into existing solutions, the more I feel that a clean, service-oriented custom solution is the best one for the Flex-based Singularity conference application.

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March 5th, 2008

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Aral

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Carlos Pinho

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Hi Aral,

These are good news for people want to develop custom blog social networks, specially the people that want to integrate it with CMS like drupal and joomla. However the last one, have at least two problems, first, the low quantity of users permissions, and second, cause in the few experiences that developers tried to integrate WUWP with J!1.X, never got full integration, i mean, it was a mix between in box and out box, as frontend was integrated with joomla, but the backend administration it’s done outside of it. It is not impossible, but is hard to achieve, and you will need for sure a couple of good developers working on it to get the desired result. I don’t mention the drupal features i’ve never tried it, but someone else can speak about it.
Just one thing Aral, i didn’t get your point about “the more I feel that a clean, service-oriented custom solution is the best one for the Flex-based Singularity conference application.” (My english is not the best one ;))

Brgds,
CP
March 5th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Chad Udell

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Aral… for service powered Flex in drupal… check out my blog post here: http://visualrinse.com/2008/03/06/creating-seo-flash-user-interfaces-with-drupal/

My friends at cascadingstyle.net have done a bit of work on this… a swfaddress module for drupal, integration with AMF, services, etc… Drupal does indeed have a nice services layer. We use it at Iona for our client sites often.
March 7th, 2008 at 5:45 am
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