BuddyPress is often pitched as “social networking in a box”. And, in fact, BP is a great solution for niche social sites. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. \u00a0BuddyPress’s modularity and extensibility make it the ideal foundation for any kind of web application with a social flavor. I’ll show off a few BP implementations that demonstrate outside-the-(social-networking)-box thinking. And I’ll gesture toward some interesting use cases that don’t exist yet, but for which BP would be well-suited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BuddyPress is often pitched as “social networking in a box”. And, in fact, BP is a great solution for niche social sites. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. \u00a0BuddyPress’s modularity and extensibility make it the ideal foundation … Continue reading BuddyPress: Beyond Facebook clones<\/span>