Social Networking with Mingle

Have you ever won­dered how to cre­ated a social net­work­ing site using the most pow­er­ful blogging/CMS soft­ware on the planet, Word­Press? Well, Word­Press came up with the solu­tion, called Bud­dy­Press! Great! But in order to use Bud­dy­press, you need Word­PressMU, which in order to use to need VPS host­ing! But what if I told you that you can cre­ate a social net­work site with­out WPMU or Bud­dy­Press, using only one plu­gin? Well, you would prob­a­bly think I’m crazy. Well, I’m here to tell you that I’m not crazy.

Min­gle

So why should you use Min­gle, instead of Bud­dy­Press? It’s not because I’m telling you, to be hon­est with you, I’m doing this because I found this plu­gin really inter­est­ing, and it works like a charm. There is noth­ing I can gain from this. Min­gle uses stan­dard Word­Press themes, and it doesn’t require any other plu­g­ins, whereas Bud­dy­Press, you have to get cus­tomized themes.

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As you can see in the com­par­i­son table above, I think that you would be bet­ter off going with Min­gle, rather than BuddyPress.

Fea­tures

  • User Pro­file Pages
  • User Friend­ing
  • User Pro­file Post­ing (for friends)
  • User Pro­file Post Com­ment­ing (for friends)
  • Friend Activ­ity Pages
  • Full Mem­ber Directory
  • Login & Nav­i­ga­tion Widget
  • Ran­dom or Recent Users Widget
  • Email Noti­fi­ca­tions
  • User Email Noti­fi­ca­tion Opt-Outs

Demo/Download

View Demo | Down­load

Tuto­r­ial

Ok, so this looks nice. But how do you install it, and make it work for your Word­Press site? Watch this tuto­r­ial, and you’ll see for your­self how easy it is to set up.

  • http://blogmedaily.com Meryl

    Hi Kla­jdi,
    I just viewed your tuto­r­ial on how to use Min­gle and I’ll try it out in a day or so. You gave a good demo of the process and I think it was very help­ful. I hope that you or some­one demon­strates more how it actu­ally func­tions, but as we all know by the time I acti­vate it and play it will prob­a­bly become much clearer. Keep up the good work and I’ll look for­ward to see­ing more demon­stra­tions from you and news about Word Press.
    Good luck with your blog and have a Happy Thanks­giv­ing!
    Meryl of Blogmedaily.com

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  • http://rolograaf.nl/com Rolo­graaf

    @Meryl
    I think you just have to try it out your­self at http://wpmingle.com, more than 100 users there already mak­ing friends and communicating.

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  • http://www.whoisabhi.com Abhishek

    Sim­ple great Resource !!
    .-= Abhishek´s last blog ..Some Future Plans =-.

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  • http://wpjourney.com/mingle-a-plugin-to-turn-wordpress-blog-into-social-network/ Min­gle, a Plu­gin to Turn Word­Press Blog into Social Net­work « WP Journey

    […] Min­gle is a Word­Press plu­gin, devel­oped by Blair Williams, that allows you to turn your Word­Press blog into a social net­work. It uses a stan­dard WordPress-based site and stan­dard Word­Press theme to cre­ate pro­file pages, user friend­ing, progile page posts, pro­file activ­i­ties, social com­ments, e-mail noti­fi­ca­tions (with pri­vacy set­tings) and a full direc­tory of members. […]

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  • http://bettafootwear.com Joe

    Hey, can you do a detailed “min­gle ver­sus bud­dy­press” arti­cle? That’d be awesome!

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  • khena25

    Hello Joe!

    Yes, I will do a detailed Min­gle vs. Bud­dy­press awe­some. You can sub­scribe to our feed to stay tuned when it gets posted. But it will prob­a­bly be the next post, or after the next post! Thanks

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  • http://www.marvc.com marvC

    WOW! Talk about an AWESOME FIND! Has any­one come up with a list of plu­g­ins that com­pli­ments this one? These may include the likes of Face­book and twit­ter, a gallery, etc. I’m about to test this RIGHT NOW on a few demo and live sites I have.

    Thanks again!

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  • http://felixtrinidad227.sosblog.com/-b/Felix-Tito-Trinidad-Fansite-b1-p1.htm Ale­jan­dro

    Hi!. Thanks a bunch for the blog. I’ve been dig­ging around for info, but there is so much out there. Google lead me here — good for you i sup­pose! Keep up the great infor­ma­tion. I will be pop­ping back over in a few days to see if there is updated posts.

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  • http://www.blokster.de/272112/wordpress-social-networking-mit-wp-mingle-plugin.html Word­press Social Net­work­ing mit WP Min­gle (Plu­gin) | Social, Min­gle, Com­mu­nity, Word­press, Plu­gin, Pro­file | Blokster.de

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  • Trevor

    I just found you site look­ing for the Min­gle tuto­r­ial, but it doesn’t seem to be dis­play­ing. Just wanted to let you know.

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  • http://www.modelsandmoguls.net/ D’Arcy

    As Trevor said, your demo still isn’t present :(

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  • Kla­jdi

    Ok guys, the video is up again, sorry about that :( )

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  • http://www.soakingplanet.com andre

    Thanks! Not yet much doc­u­men­ta­tion out there…

    I hope to see more cus­tomiza­tion hacks com­ing up soon. Still test-driving Min­gle for now, and if has mas­sive potential!

    Kudos to Blair Williams,

    Andre

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  • http://onlinerakebackpoker.com/ Naish­ster from onlinerakebackpoker

    Great plu­gin, been think­ing about how I could get some­thing like this on my site for a while when I came across this.

    Thanks!

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  • Attaa­nia

    I am very new to both Word­Press and Min­gle. I am try­ing to set up Min­gle on Word­Press! I fol­lowed the instruc­tions on the tuto­r­ial at the link below:
    http://dubupee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/mingle.swf
    1– Installed Min­gle Plu­gin
    2– Cre­ated the fol­low­ing pages on Wor­press (Activ­ity, Direc­tory, Friends, –Request, login, profile,-Edit, Signup)
    3– Set up each of the pages that just cre­ate to the cor­re­spond­ing fields on Min­gle as instructed in the tuto­r­ial above
    4– Clicked on updated option

    Well, after these steps the tuto­r­ial says, “That is it! You are done!” But wait a min­utes noth­ing hap­pened to my word­press web­site! I do not know where I should go after that to set up a social net­work on Word­Press! So where can I see the social net­work that I was hop­ing I just cre­ated with Mingle?

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  • Kla­jdi

    Maybe a link to your site will help Attaa­nia, but from what I’m under­stand­ing, you are done. Now you can go to the main page of your blog, and see all the pages and such. What you might wanna do is you wanna go to the Wid­gets, and then put the 2 Min­gle Wid­gets on the side­bar, or on the footer, or wher­ever you would like.

    But if you’ve fol­lowed the instruc­tions, and seems like you did, you’re all set. check out http://test.dubupee.com, that’s what it looks like.
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    Let me know if you’re still hav­ing problems.

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  • http://www.oldskoolmania.com old skool

    I would like to have the 5 lat­est mem­bers dis­played on the front page of my word­press blog. Where do i edit the php script to dis­play the results, please help.

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  • http://www.oldskoolmania.com old skool

    I would like to have the 5 lat­est mem­bers dis­played on the front page of my word­press blog http://www.oldskoolmania.com . Where do i edit the php script to dis­play the results, please help.

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  • http://wpalb.com Kla­jdi

    Hello!

    There is a wid­get for that, so you can just put it in your side­bar… Btw, I just saw on your site that you already have that on the side­bar… Please let me know if you still have any questions/problems.

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  • http://www.getminorityscholarships.com minor­ity scholarships

    I’ve recently started a blog, the infor­ma­tion you pro­vide on this site has helped me tremen­dously. Thank you for all of your time & work.

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