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WP Symposium A Social Network For WordPress

Social Networking for WordPress: forum, activity, member directory, mail, chat, profile page, groups, events, gallery, mobile, RSS and more!

Download Version 12.02.18

Author: Simon Goodchild

WP Symposium turns a WordPress website into a Social Network! It is a suite of WordPress plugins including forum, activity (similar to Facebook wall), member directory, private mail, notification bar, chat windows, chat room, profile page, social widgets, activity alerts, RSS activity feeds and support for other plugins such as Groups, Events, Gallery, Facebook Connect and Mobile support! You simply choose which you want to activate! Certain features are optional to members to protect their privacy.

For developers, there are a growing number of WordPress hooks and filters, along with WP Symposium functions and Javascript variables. More information on the WPS Wiki at http://www.wpswiki.com.

Note: The WP Symposium plugin from WordPress.org is free (that includes profile, activity, forum, chat, panel, mail, member directory and widgets) - additional WPS compatible plugins may require a subscription fee.

Find out more, and try it out on our own social network at http://www.wpsymposium.com.

Three steps to create a Social Network website

  1. Download WordPress
  2. Install WP Symposium

erm, sorry - only two steps.

What do you get?

You get a number of plugins that each provide a set of functionality and features, that can be used individually or all together, to produce a social networking website built on WordPress.

You can activate a member profile page with activity wall and posts/replies; member profile photos (avatars); friends; a "notification bar" with friends status, mail alerts and live chat windows. You can also activate a forum; a directory of members and internal (private) messaging.

The features of all these will continually improve - and more plugins like Groups, Events, Facebook Shared Status, Photo Albums and Mobile Access are available at http://www.wpsymposium.com.

Oh, and you also get widgets, with more to come, including latest new members and latest forum posts.

Can I change the layout and styles?

Certainly can! Templates are provided for you to change the layout, and an easy-to-use style configuration (or way to enter CSS if you prefer) is provided to change the styles.

How is it configured?

WP Symposium plugins work with any WordPress theme! No complicated theme development, and no complicated styles - you can even pick the colour scheme in the WordPress admin area!

Via crowdin website at http://www.crowdin.net/project/symposium, a growing number of translations are being maintained by an active user base, so running WP Symposium in a different language is easily set up.

What else is there?

Loads! Smilies, loves AJAX, an installation "health check" page, templates for changing the page layout, options for just about everything... the list goes on!

Find out more, and try it out on our own social network at http://www.wpsymposium.com.

Can I see what features are coming next?

Using the same software as WordPress, we have a Trac website at https://wpsymposium-trac.sourcerepo.com/wpsymposium_trac

Where can I get support?

At http://www.wpsymposium.com or the WPS Wiki at http://www.wpswiki.com.

Requires: 3.0 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.1
Last Updated: 2012-2-11 Downloads: 65,232

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