WordPress is much more than just your standard blogging script. It has the ability to do so many thing. With truckloads of smart developers banging away at it every single day – there have been a lot of creative WordPress powered projects out there. Here are a few of the ones that have caught my eye and you could install on your own web hosting account.
How to Turn WordPress into a Multiple Blog Network
Want to launch your own blogging network? WordPress MU (the MU stands for multiple users) is what you want to look into using. If you have ever wanted to run multiple blogs off a single install of WordPress, this is definitely what you need.
WordPress MU and WordPress also share 99% of their codebase, so what you can do with one, you can probably do with the other. So if you are afraid of learning an entirely new CMS – no need! WordPress MU is pretty similar as far as the exterior and the interior goes with WordPress.
How to Turn WordPress into a Micro Blogging Service
Did you know, you could take your normal WordPress install, and quickly turn it into a micro blogging service of your very own? That is where the Prologue theme for WordPress comes into the picture. It was inspired by services such as Twitter, however has a unique enough look and feel to it that you don’t feel like you are ripping them off.
Best example of this theme in use was to password protect the WordPress install it was skinning, and using it as an internal short memo system inside of a small business.
How to Turn WordPress into a Social Network
BuddyPress is an add-on to WordPress MU that will give you the ability to turn it into a social network platform, like MySpace or Facebook. Playing with the demo, I see a lot of promise here. You have groups, blogs, member pages, news and more. The possibilities are endless.
Everything is still in beta, and in the demo phases – however, in the big picture, I think that BuddyPress will be one of the WordPress tools we will be talking a lot about. With it, anybody can launch a social network for their friends or for the area of expertise they share. I always wanted a web hosting social network.
As you can see, WordPress can be taken into a number of different direction, when it the right hands of the right developers and designers. We didn’t even get into their forum script, bbPress. By far, WordPress might be one of the easiest platforms to use these days. What do you think?
