Posts Tagged ‘Automattic’

WordPress as…whatever you want!

One man band

Image by John_Scone via Flickr

I’ve been tracking BuddyPress for a couple of months now – I came across a post on Mashable today that was called “The 7 Weirdest and Wackiest Uses for WordPress“.  I really liked a few of them and a couple were just…wierd.

I’m not saying WordPress is a one-man-band, but it certainly seems to be shaping up to be more than JUST a blog tool.

I have already spoke about BuddyPress, the social plugins for WordPress.  But they mentioned an email newsletter plugin.  That looks cool – the biggest issue for that is a corporate policy at my employer regarding the use of a single system they have.  The big “feature” with WordPress seems to be the idea that you setup a category “newsletter – then things can be sent automatically…very cool.

Funny – they have one as the wordplace chat room – by using a theme called Prologue…I just had a discussion the other day with my co-worker why Yammer is silly and Twitter is a better option.  After review – Yammer is OK…I just have issue with them winning the TechCrunch prize by slightly modifiying a current companies plan.

My big plus for using WordPress as a platform – it just cuts down the clutter of applications, if it can truly handle the job.

So take a peek at the others and let me know if there are any Mashable missed.

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WordPressMU + BuddyPress is very, very cool

BuddyPressImage by magerleagues via Flickr

Working on installing the BuddyPress (community building tools) from Automattic.  It must be installed with WordPress MU (MultiUser), but that is more of a benifit than a drawback.  This is very cool – I’m having some issues with the install, but the maillist is proving to be helpful. Could use a bit more documentations – but I’m enjoying the challenge.

Please let me know if you working on any install of this combo yourself.

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