Social networks
Finally, it's time to discuss one of the most surprising topics in relation to building various types of websites with WordPress. As it turns out, the platform can be very well used to run a fully functional social network. In other words, you can have your own Facebook if you like to... at least when it comes to the functionality.
And speaking about functionality, in short, a social network built with WordPress can offer the following:
- Support any number of user accounts
- Facebook-like publishing method for users (a "Wall" or an activity stream)
- Forums
- Blogs and micro blogs
- Friends
- Groups
- Private messages
- Comments
- Photo and video content
- And much, much more
That being said, building and then running a well-constructed social network utilizing all of the available features will require some serious work. This is way above the scope of this book. So here, we're only going to focus on the basic setup process and getting started. If you're planning to launch an...
