Operating system | Platform PHP, MySQL | |
Stable release 14.05 / May 1, 2014; 2 years ago (2014-05-01) Type Blog publishing system, Social Networking License GNU General Public License version 3 Website | ||
WP Symposium Pro 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.
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Work on WP Symposium started in December 2010 by Simon Goodchild, and since then an active community website has been created.
In early February 2014, WP Symposium Pro was realised as a total re-write, using WordPress techniques, and no custom tables (etc.). All elements of the social network are added with WordPress shortcodes, with a wide range of options.
As it is built on WordPress it is written using the same primary technologies, PHP and MySQL.
Features
It consists of:
Many plugins are available, and more are released regularly at
Update news
Releases
Updates to the product are frequent - following a key philosophy of the lead developer of "release quick, fix quick".
Extending WP Symposium
A large number of WordPress hooks and filters allows developers to create WP Symposium Pro plugins. A demonstration plugin is available via the WPS website. Minimal styles are used, allowing the plugin to adopt the theme styles and/or be easily customised through custom CSS.