Hi everyone! I am looking into creating an image sharing site but rather get some precoded stuff than start from the ground up so it is a bit faster to get it launched and tested before investing heavily into it. What I need is, -To run on Linux Apache -Content ratings (General, Mature, Adult) -Multiple server (For hosting images) -User profiles (With their images, their favourites, comments and bio) -Image categories -Image description, title, tags -Favorite an image -Search -Pirate messaging -Subscribe to other users -Notification of new images uploaded by users you have subscribed to Extra features that would be cool but are not needed -Blog type posts -Music upload -Gallery -Featured images/users -Auto resize images to XY and compress -Forum integration -Groups So yer, anything out there that can do this for me? Or is it too specific in what it needs? Thanks! Jack,
You can do that with wordpress+bbpress+buddypress bolted together along with some other plugins. Its fairly trivial to do actually. hope that helps, Nigel
Hi Nigel I have thought about using Wordpress Though I tried to create an e-commerce site like Esty with it using WPMUdev's stuff, but I found it quite painful. Ill look into it though. I would have to create a custom theme and stop users going into the we-admin section of the site and make it so they can upload and edit everything on the main site. Ty
Not with buddypress, I would have to think about the photo stuff being centralized but you can basically knock up something similar to facebook in short order. Buddypress basically gives folks a community. There is no admin panel involved. Happy to help if need be. I have done this before but I am not sure its still up. The photographer in question bailed on the project to produce a magazine. Nigel
Well I would not use Buddypress but WordPress' inbuilt Muti User Network. Each user can create a "blog", which would be their profile and add Image uploading as the main "thing" on the site and "blog" as a secondary "thing". If that makes seance... The main site would then be a global content viewer that can show user's uploads, blogs and more. If you are up for more discussion I am.
That is doable as well if you have a vps or higher, that would basically give everyone their own subdomain. That is another way to go about things as well just a bit more complex in scope. You would then have to bolt a bunch of stuff together from wpmu like the blog directory etc. blog and user creator etc. I like to keep stuff under one roof but I suppose that is another way to "NOT" have folks bumbling around the root wordpress instance. Not a bad idea really. The stuff on wpmu is quite sound as well. It seems to me it would be a bit more enticing to give folks a full blown site. The only tricky part is getting the server to cooperate so its all automated. Nigel
I have the server hardware for it. Though I rather not users have the users on the sub domains. I do believe that it can do domain.tld/username/ I also think it is possible to theme the site so that users can edit their profiles/ upload and edit content and a load of other stuff on the main site. So really it is about creating a complete front end that interacts with the WordPress backend that manages everything. (This also means that it probably would not need multi site). End of the day going down the WordPress route means that I would still have to code half the site site and make it so these plugins work the way we want with this "frontend". This could take the more/less time than coding the site from new?