Who is this guy?
• Beau Lebens
• Automattician
• http://dentedreality.com.au/
WordPress• State-of-the-art Publishing
Platform
• Blog? CMS!
• Used by millions of users
• Easy to install and use
• Infinitely customizable through plugins & themes
• GPL licensed
WordPress MU
• Multi-blog version of WordPress
• Host many blogs with shared user accounts
• Site Admins control everything
• GPL licensed
WPMU != WordPress
• Uses more server resources
• More complex to install & manage
• Blog Admins CANNOT install their own Themes or Plugins
• Not all plugins will work!
• Scales massively
Get WordPress MU
• http://mu.wordpress.org/
• http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/
• http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/
• http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/trunk
• http://ocaoimh.ie/
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs
bbPress
• Powerful, lightweight forum system
• Optionally integrates with WordPress user system
• Shares a lot of code & concepts with WP
• GPL licensed
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bbPress + WP =
• Shared user tables (profiles, options)
• Single Sign On (shared cookies)
• Shared themes (with some tinkering)
• Integrated one-to-many and many-to-many conversations (community)
• Power to host a large community
Get bbPress
• http://bbpress.org/
• http://bbpress.org/forums/
• http://trac.bbpress.org/
• http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/
BuddyPress
• Social network in a box
• WPMU + set of plugins + bbPress
• Make your own Facebook, BYOTOS
• Enable the features that work for you
• GPL licensedText
Get BuddyPress
• http://buddypress.org/
• http://buddypress.org/forums/
• http://trac.buddypress.org/
• http://buddypress.org/download/
BackPress
• Shared code library between WP + bbPress
• Provides common web app functionality
• Designed to be portable -- Use it in your project!
• Familiar for WordPress developers
• GPL licensed
Get BackPress
• http://backpress.automattic.com/
• http://svn.automattic.com/backpress/trunk
• Beau Lebens
• http://dentedreality.com.au/
• http://wordpress.org/
• http://codex.wordpress.org/