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Creating Social Networking Site

  • 22-06-2013 10:12PM
    #1
    lmahoney79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭


    Please feel free to move if in wrong forum as I'm not sure!
    Anyway, basically I am trying to set up a social networking site for Mums to meet each other in Ireland. I'm relatively a junior in web design and because I've experience with Joomla, I want to use that. Is there some kind of component, plugin etc I can install on a joomla site? Something that allows user registration, profile pages, messaging etc.? Any help greatly appreciated.


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  • #2
    Alligator Wine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭Alligator Wine


    Jomsocial and community builder are the ones that spring to mind. I've experience with Jomsocial and found it covered most bases you need in a social network type plugin.

    If you didn't want to go down the joomla route there are out of the box solutions: http://www.socialengine.com/ but cost might be a bit high.


  • #3
    lmahoney79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭lmahoney79


    Yeah I also thought about not using Joomla but social engine is out of my price range unfortunately.


  • #4
    Fussgangerzone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭Fussgangerzone


    BuddyPress would be worth considering.

    It's completely free and does a lot. Briefly, it's WordPress with a load of community stuff added. Very easily done.


  • #5
    Reamer Fanny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Reamer Fanny


    lmahoney79 wrote: »
    Please feel free to move if in wrong forum as I'm not sure!
    Anyway, basically I am trying to set up a social networking site for Mums to meet each other in Ireland. I'm relatively a junior in web design and because I've experience with Joomla, I want to use that. Is there some kind of component, plugin etc I can install on a joomla site? Something that allows user registration, profile pages, messaging etc.? Any help greatly appreciated.

    Might got shot for this but how about vbulletin? It's what boards.ie is built on


  • #6
    lmahoney79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭lmahoney79


    Hi everyone, thanks for all the help. In the end I went with PHP Fox.


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  • #7
    devildriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 874 ✭✭✭devildriver


    Alligator Wine wrote: »
    Jomsocial and community builder are the ones that spring to mind. I've experience with Jomsocial and found it covered most bases you need in a social network type plugin.

    If you didn't want to go down the joomla route there are out of the box solutions: http://www.socialengine.com/ but cost might be a bit high.

    Social Engine is total junkware anyway. Really slow and buggy.


  • #8
    cormee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,802 ✭✭✭cormee


    I know it's too late, but I'd have suggested Buddypress too.


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