Mar
5
Coming Soon: WordPress Goes Social
Posted by Irene Soto at 10:39 am under Internet.
WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg recently announced that WordPress parent company Automattic has hired designer and developer Andy Peatling, who has created a WordPress-based social network called BuddyPress.
According to the home page, “BuddyPress will transform a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social-network platform.”
The purpose? Mullenweg writes: “Someday, perhaps, the world will have a truly free and open source alternative to the walled gardens and open-only-in-API platforms that currently dominate our social landscape.”