Filed under: Design, Blogging, Social Software
Automattic, the company behind the WordPress blogging platform, is becoming known for buying up some of the most creative WordPress hacks out there. They’ve already snapped up the global avatar service, Gravatar, and added a handful of quality themes by Chris Pearson to their selection of default templates. Now Automattic is taking WordPress into the arena of social networking by hiring designer Andy Peatling and acquiring his BuddyPress plugins.
There’s a placeholder page at BuddyPress.com right now, with the Automattic logo and a simple description of what BuddyPress does: transforming “a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform.” For an example of what that might look like, you can check out Peatling’s work on chickspeak.com, built on BuddyPress. If you’re a designer who likes the power and flexibility of WordPress, but you need to get outside the basic blog and put together a full-on social network, user profiles and all, this could be a great solution.
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