Simon Goodchild

Instantly and easily turn your website into a social network! Profile, Posts, Photos, Videos, Friends, Alerts – and more!
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<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>
Your patience and feedback is encouraged and appreciated to continuously improve WPSN.
<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>
Want reactions (like, love, etc), private chat, and member block? (available now)
How about groups, follow, forums and saved posts, and more? (coming soon)
Boost your social network with additional plugins via the <a href="http://wpsn.site/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPSN website</a>.
Did I mention a free theme for a clean instant social network?
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>.
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>.
<h4>Want to try it out?</h4>
Join <a href="http://wpsn.site/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPSN website</a> and see it in action, and have a go!
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<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>
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WPSN: Instant Social Network

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

Alex Kirk

The Friends plugin allows you to follow content from other WordPress sites, and interact with them on your own site. You can follow friends and others via RSS. If you also have the ActivityPub plugin installed, you can follow people on Mastodon and other ActivityPub-compatible social networks.
Since version 2.6.0, no users will be created for subscriptions.
Combine this plugin with the ActivityPub plugin to make your own WordPress your own Mastodon instance. Use the Enable Mastodon Apps to use mobile and desktop Mastodon apps with your own site.
The Friends Plugin also has a “friend request” function which allows blogs to become friends with each other. This then allows private publishing on your blog while each of their friends has their own blog but will be able to see your privately published posts.
There are many small aspects that make it powerful self-hosted social reader:
You can… 
– Have multiple feeds per person, so you can subscribe to their blog(s) and social media account(s). 
– Categorize incoming content with Post Formats and view all posts of a certain format across your friends. 
– Define rules to filter incoming content (sometimes you’re not interested in everything your friends do). 
– Turn your favorite blog into your personal newsletter by receiving full-post notification e-mails 
– Use feed rules to filter out content you are not interested in. 
– Receive ePubs of your friends’ posts to your eReader (via another plugin). 
– Collect posts (from your feeds or around the web) in a collection for later reference (via another plugin).
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<h3>Philosophy</h3>
The Friends Plugin was built to make use of what WordPress provides:
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<li>You use the WordPress infrastructure (Gutenberg or Classic Editor, what you prefer) to create your posts.</li>
<li>If a post is private, only logged-in friends can see it. They can only log in through their own Friends plugin on their blog.</li>
<li>Therefore, your friend is just a user on your WordPress blog, their posts are theirs, you can delete them to unfriend them.</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 slim like before.</li>
</ul>
In future, I could see mobile apps instead of talking to a third party, to talk to your own blog. It will have your friends’ posts already fetched. Maybe the apps will be specialized, like Twitter or Instagram, where you’d only interact with and create posts in the specific post format.
The logo was created by Ramon Dodd, @ramonopoly. Thank you!
Documentation for the plugin can be found on the <a href="https://github.com/akirk/friends/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub project Wiki</a>.
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>.

Friends

I love it!

Follow others via RSS and ActivityPub and read their posts on your own WordPress.

WPSN: Instant Social Network vs Friends