WP Symposium

WP Symposium is an open source social networking software package. It is a suite of plugins for WordPress that turns it into a social network - although you can choose which plugins you want to use. For example, if you only want to use the Forum, you would only activate the Forum plugin.

Work on WP Symposium started in December 2010 by Simon Goodchild, and since then an ACTIVE community website has been created.

As it is built on WordPress it is written using the same primary technologies, PHP and MySQL.

Features

It consists of:

  • Forum
  • Wall
  • Member directory
  • Private mail
  • Notification bar
  • Chat windows
  • Chat room
  • Profile page
  • Widgets

Releases

Updates to the product are frequent - following a key philosphy of the lead developer of "release quick, fix quick".

A full change log of releases can be found here.

Independent reviews of WP Symposium

  • WPMU.org website
  • wpcandy.org
  • Mingle Communities
  • wordpressinfo.com