Simon Goodchild

<p>Instantly and <strong>easily</strong> turn your website into a social network! Profile, Posts, Photos, Videos, Friends, Alerts – and more!</p>
<ul>
<li>The emphasis is on a clean and simple interface for users.</li>
<li>Powerful, yet easy for admins to customise with many options.</li>
</ul>
<h4>WPSN is in early access (v0.x)</h4>
<p>Your patience and feedback is encouraged and appreciated to continuously improve WPSN.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Key principle of “Keep it Simple” (yet powerful)</li>
<li>Profile page with your posts, replies – messages, images, and YouTube videos.</li>
<li>Home activity stream to see all your friends activity.</li>
<li>And yes, friends!</li>
<li>Comes with a friendly Login and Register page.</li>
<li>Live notifications as they happen.</li>
<li>Loads of customisation options for admins – colours, design and more!</li>
<li>Works with any WordPress theme – <a href="http://wpsn.site/themes/" rel="nofollow ugc">check out the tips for your Theme</a>.</li>
<li>Built “the WordPress” way.</li>
</ul>
<p>Want reactions (like, love, etc), private chat, and member block? (available now)</p>
<p>How about groups, follow, forums and saved posts, and more? (coming soon)</p>
<p>Boost your social network with additional plugins via the <a href="http://wpsn.site/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPSN website</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Did I mention a free theme for a clean instant social network?</strong></p>
<p>I am committed to ensuring WPSN works with popular WPSN Themes – <a href="http://wpsn.site/themes/" rel="nofollow ugc">check out the tips for your Theme</a>.</p>
<p>You can also get a free WPSN Theme for a “social network in a box” from the <a href="http://wpsn.site/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPSN website</a>.</p>
<h4>Want to try it out?</h4>
<p>Join <a href="http://wpsn.site/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPSN website</a> and see it in action, and have a go!</p>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xLkBcldELZE?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<h3>Resources</h3>
<ul>
<li>YouTube used as an external 3rd party service and is required to display videos activity posts embedded in HTML. https://www.youtube.com. Terms of Service at https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms.</li>
<li>Croppie code included, and required to crop uploaded images for avatar/profile images. Terms of Service, and Download, from https://foliotek.github.io/Croppie. Croppie was built by Foliotek for use in Foliotek Presentation. https://www.foliotek.com. Minified versions of the JS and CSS files are included in this plugin – you can get the full code version via their website.</li>
</ul>


WPSN: Instant Social Network

Instantly and easily turn your website into a social network! Profile, Posts, Photos, Videos, Friends, Alerts - and more!

Alex Kirk

<p>The Friends plugin turns your WordPress into a self-hosted social reader. Follow people via RSS and ActivityPub (Mastodon and other Fediverse platforms) and read their posts through one of several built-in themes — Mastodon-style, Google Reader-style, or the default view — with dark mode support.</p>
<p><strong>Combine this plugin with the ActivityPub plugin to participate in the Fediverse from your own site. Use the Enable Mastodon Apps plugin to use mobile and desktop Mastodon apps with your WordPress.</strong></p>
<p>The plugin is designed to be extensible: other plugins can add parsers for new feed sources, new themes, and new functionality like saving posts to a collection or sending them to an eReader.</p>
<p>You can…<br />
– Choose from multiple themes: Mastodon-style, Google Reader-style, and a block theme with dark mode.<br />
– Organize your subscriptions into folders.<br />
– Have multiple feeds per person (blog, social media, etc.).<br />
– Categorize incoming content with Post Formats and view all posts of a certain format across your feeds.<br />
– Define rules to filter incoming content.<br />
– Get full-post email notifications from your favorite blogs.<br />
– Save posts to a collection for later reference (via the Post Collection plugin).<br />
– Send posts to your eReader (via the Send to E-Reader plugin).<br />
– Subscribe to any site with one click using the <a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/friends/ledbghpaplkpclndlommpbokndieflhl" rel="nofollow ugc">Friends browser extension</a> (also available <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wpfriends/" rel="nofollow ugc">for Firefox</a>).</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bz6GluXnsk" rel="nofollow ugc"></a></p>
<h3>Philosophy</h3>
<p>The Friends Plugin was built to make use of what WordPress provides:</p>
<ul>
<li>You use the WordPress infrastructure (Gutenberg or Classic Editor, what you prefer) to create your posts.</li>
<li>Followed people are stored as taxonomy terms, their posts are cached as a custom post type — delete the term to unfollow.</li>
<li>No extra tables: The Friends plugin just uses a post type, options, and some taxonomies to store its data. When you delete the plugin, your WordPress will be as slim as before.</li>
</ul>
<p>The logo was created by Ramon Dodd, @ramonopoly. Thank you!</p>
<p>Documentation for the plugin can be found on the <a href="https://github.com/akirk/friends/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub project Wiki</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Development of this plugin is done <a href="https://github.com/akirk/friends" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>. Pull requests welcome. Please see <a href="https://github.com/akirk/friends/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">issues</a> reported there before going to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/friends" rel="ugc">plugin forum</a>.</strong></p>


Friends

I love it!


Perhaps something like this should be enabled by default on all WordPress plugins, it really hits home... the idea is brilliant!


I love it, what a very cool plugin!

A self-hosted social reader for WordPress: follow people via RSS and ActivityPub, with multiple themes and a plugin ecosystem.

WPSN: Instant Social Network vs Friends