Blair Williams

<p>The simplest way to turn your WordPress website into a Social Network comparable to Facebook or LinkedIn. Mingle makes it easy to create a social network for your family, church, business or even a premium membership site! Mingle uses your standard WordPress website and standard WordPress theme to create your Social Network instantly. So go ahead and try it out–give your users a more social experience on your website today!</p>
<h4>See Mingle In Action!</h4>
<p>You can now try Mingle out in our Mingle Community! Come be my friend at:<br />
<a href="http://wpmingle.com" title="Mingle WordPress Community" rel="nofollow ugc">Mingle WordPress Community</a></p>
<h4>Community Builders</h4>
<p>If you’re planning on launching Mingle as part of a Premium Membership site we’ve seen great success with people using <a href="http://memberpress.com" title="MemberPress" rel="nofollow ugc">MemberPress</a>.</p>
<p>FYI, MemberPress is a WordPress plugin created by the same people who brought you <a href="http://prettylinkpro.com" title="Pretty Link Pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Pretty Link Pro</a>, <a href="http://www.affiliateroyale.com" title="Affiliate Royale" rel="nofollow ugc">Affiliate Royale</a> and Mingle.</p>
<h4>Note</h4>
<p>Mingle still hasn’t been tested with every theme or browser in existence yet. However, Mingle was developed and works exceptionally well on most themes.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>User Profile Pages</li>
<li>Pretty Profile Urls (to help with memorability and Google Indexing)</li>
<li>Ability to Upload custom avatars (falls back on Gravatar)</li>
<li>User Friending</li>
<li>User Profile Posting (for friends)</li>
<li>User Profile Post Commenting (for friends)</li>
<li>Friend Activity Pages</li>
<li>Full Member Directory</li>
<li>Login & Navigation Widget</li>
<li>Random or Recent Users Widget</li>
<li>Email Notifications</li>
<li>User Email Notification Opt-Outs</li>
<li>Front end login, logout, lost password and registration system (So your subscribers never need to see the WordPress login or admin)</li>
<li>Twitter-Like user tagging (using the @ symbol followed by the user’s name)</li>
<li>Custom Profile Fields (configurable by the admin)</li>
<li>Private Messaging</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>Mingle is currently available in the following languages thanks to awesome translators!</p>
<ul>
<li>Albanian (sq_AL) — <a href="http://dubupee.com" title="Klajdi Hena" rel="nofollow ugc">Klajdi Hena</a></li>
<li>Armenian (hy_AM) — <a href="http://TheBlog.am" title="Karo Kendimian" rel="nofollow ugc">Karo Kendimian</a></li>
<li>
<p>Belarusian (be_BY) — Marcis Gasuns</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Bulgarian (bg_BG) — <a href="http://www.ivominchev.com" title="Ivo Minchev" rel="nofollow ugc">Ivo Minchev</a></p>
</li>
<li>Dutch (nl_NL) — <a href="http://rolograaf.com" title="Lourens Rolograaf" rel="nofollow ugc">Lourens Rolograaf</a></li>
<li>English</li>
<li>French (fr_FR) — <a href="http://www.gatewaytranslation.com" title="Andre Lefebvre" rel="nofollow ugc">Andre Lefebvre</a></li>
<li>German (de_DE) — <a href="http://www.mindgears.de" title="Bernd Zolchhofer" rel="nofollow ugc">Bernd Zolchhofer</a></li>
<li>Italian (it_IT) — <a href="http://www.giast.com" title="Gianluca Storani" rel="nofollow ugc">Gianluca Storani</a></li>
<li>Persian (fa_IR) — <a href="http://pad.ir" title="Ardalan Naghshineh" rel="nofollow ugc">Ardalan Naghshineh</a></li>
<li>Polish (pl_PL) — <a href="http://www.jacekdudzic.eu" title="Jacek Dudzic" rel="nofollow ugc">Jacek Dudzic</a></li>
<li>Romanian (ro_RO) — <a href="http://www.tinerifaracompromis.net" title="Petrovan Ionut" rel="nofollow ugc">Petrovan Ionut</a></li>
<li>Russian (ru_RU) — <a href="http://constantine-khorunzhev.moikrug.ru/" title="Constantine Khorunzhev" rel="nofollow ugc">Constantine Khorunzhev</a></li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES) — Carlos Mejias</li>
<li>Swedish (sv_SE) — <a href="http://www.exceedingthelimits.se" title="Philip Holm" rel="nofollow ugc">Philip Holm</a></li>
<li>Turkish (tr) — <a href="http://www.vizyoncu.com" title="Mertcan Temel" rel="nofollow ugc">Mertcan Temel</a></li>
</ul>
<p>If you don’t see your language on this list or the translation in your language isn’t adequate, please contact me on my blog at http://blairwilliams.com or at http://wpmingle.com and I can give you instructions on how to translate Mingle.</p>


WP Mingle

The simplest way to turn your standard WordPress website with a standard WordPress theme into a Social Network.

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<p>After single two-minute-long installation your website will have social features: activity, friends, likes, groups, messaging, market and much more.<br />
What this plugin is for: Big social networks put plenty of websites out of business, because anyone can create a group on a major Social Network (such as Facebook, VKontakte, LinkedIn, Odnoklassniki, etc.), and it’s much easier than to build and support your own website.<br />
We want to get web-masters back into the game, arming them with the same functionality the “grown-up” social networks have.</p>
<h4>Try the Demo</h4>
<ul>
<li>see the demo at <a href="http://wordpress.ucq.me/gra4/activity/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://wordpress.ucq.me</a></li>
<li>or pick one of the GRA4 partner websites from the <a href="http://gra4.com/networks" rel="nofollow ugc">Partner Networks List</a></li>
<li>or create your own sandbox on <a href="http://ucq.me" rel="nofollow ugc">free hosting ucq.me (‘you seek me’)</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Video Presentation</h4>
<ul>
<li>http://wiki.gra4.com/Main_Page#GRA4_Social_Network_Video_Presentation<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bJVrxEG7qQ&hd=1</li>
</ul>
<h4>Installation</h4>
<ul>
<li>Video Guide: http://en.wiki.gra4.com/GRA4_for_WordPress_Installation<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd9vvRViXp4&hd=1</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>You can download and install GRA4 Social Network using the standard WordPress plugin installer. </li>
<li>Activate the GRA4 Social Network Plugin in the “Plugins” admin panel using the “Activate” link, continue with the Settings. </li>
<li>Navigate to the page you’ve just created, and enjoy the Social Networking.</li>
<li>Done! Optional: For some custom themes you may use the admin interface (look for “GRA4 Settings” in the admin menu) to adjust the social content position.</li>
</ol>
<h4> Wiki </h4>
<ul>
<li>GRA4 Wiki: http://wiki.gra4.com/</li>
</ul>
<h4> Customization </h4>
<p>Use the admin interface (look for “GRA4 Settings” in the admin menu) to adjust the social content position.<br />
See Video Tutorial at the http://gra4.com/wiki/GRA4_for_WordPress_Settings for details.<br />
If you need deeper customization, edit style file <em>custom.css</em> in your <em>wp-content/plugins/gra4/css/</em> directory.<br />
GRA4 content is about 1000px wide, so we also recommend to switch off sidebars for the GRA4 page if the theme offers such option.</p>
<h4> Compatibility </h4>
<p>GRA4 Social Network supplies the dynamic content even for non-logged users of your website.<br />
Therefore if you use caching plugins, we recommend to switch of the caching for all pages bellow the<br />
http://your_website.com/gra4/…</p>
<h4> Support Groups </h4>
<ul>
<li>General: http://gra4.com/groups/profile/94/gra4-webmasters/</li>
<li>WordPress: http://gra4.com/groups/profile/98/gra4-webmasters-wordpress</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<ul>
<li>see the demo at http://wordpress.ucq.me</li>
<li>or pick one of the operational websites from the Partner Networks List at http://gra4.com/networks</li>
<li>or create your own playground on free hosting http://ucq.me</li>
</ul>
<h3>Wiki</h3>
<ul>
<li>http://wiki.gra4.com/</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support Groups</h3>
<ul>
<li>General: http://gra4.com/groups/profile/94/gra4-webmasters/</li>
<li>WordPress: http://gra4.com/groups/profile/98/gra4-webmasters-wordpress</li>
</ul>


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