Interesting community releases…
Published: October 25th, 2006Wordpress MU, finally a multi-user blogging platform!
Wordpress the popular blogging software has released some interesting community software lately.
This really catches my eyes because as most of you know, my main goal on the internet is building communities.
Anyway, what WordPress did was take their blogging platform “Wordpress” and turn it into a multi-blogging system. This system is simply called WordPress MU
What this system means is that you can setup a blogging site that is niche specificed and have an entire blogging system for your users. This has interesting community potential, but I am more focused on forum-based communities or at least starting sites with that mindset. So I was rather looking down on this system until I just found out about their OTHER project.
Take a look at bbPress - bbPress is the forum of WordPress software, what’s even better - is that it integrates completely with WordPress and I believe WordPress MU. That is absolutely amazing!
I think I am going to experiment with these scripts and try to create a niche based community on this frameset of a multi-user blog system + a forum instead of vbulletin forum setup. I’ll let you know how this project goes.
Summary, WordPress releases WP MU 1.0 and bbPress 0.72
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I am really interested to know how this would turn out: a community based upon a multi-user blog system instead of the familiar vbulletin forum. I still use Google’s Blogger for my blogs. My host, 1&1 has given its customers the ability to create WordPress blogs on its sysem but the one I created had multiple errors. I’ll have to try again (I have a feeling the blog would be a “lite” — lacking ability to customize — still worth a try)
Speaking of communities, how would WordPress MU differ from creating a community with BoonEx’ GNU licensed Dolphin software?
http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/
Thanks for the discussion.
BoonEx - meh, I don’t like them. They have bad support, and don’t code their software properly. I’ve always ran into shit coding problems with their OOS software.
The most ridiculous one was the directory, it only works on PHP 4.x - that is horrible for this day of age.
*shrug*
WordPress also has a huge community and it’s fairly web 2.0 compliant, so that makes me like it even more.
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