BuddyPress

BuddyPress is a powerful community plugin for WordPress that takes your site beyond the blog. It includes social-network features like user profiles, groups, activity streams, notifications, etc.

BuddyPress is a suite of components that are common to a typical social network, and allows for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system. If you only want to use a few features, BuddyPress will automatically adapt, showing only the menu items, pages and buttons for the features you have enabled.

BuddyPress comes with a variety of components, but you can turn any of these on or off for your network, depending on what you need. For more details on each separate feature, please refer to WordPress Gone Social With BuddyPress.

You can download this extension here.

This plugin can be conveniently installed using the plugin installer in your WordPress Dashboard.

Visit the BuddyPress website for documentation, support, and information on getting involved in the project and community.