Meet The FamilyAn introduction to some other WordPress projects

you may not know about

Who is this guy?

• Beau Lebens

• Automattician

• beau@dentedreality.com.au

• http://dentedreality.com.au/

Meet the Family

• WordPress

• WordPress MU

• bbPress

• BuddyPress

• BackPress

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

WordPress.com

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

WordPress.org Forums

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

BuddyPress.org

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

• beau@dentedreality.com.au

• http://dentedreality.com.au/

• http://wordpress.org/

• http://codex.wordpress.org/

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