Finally, it's time to discuss one of the most surprising topics in relation to building various types of websites with WordPress. As it turns out, the platform can be used very well to run a fully functional social network. In other words, you can have your own Facebook if you want to, at least when it comes to functionality.
And speaking of functionality, in short, a social network built with WordPress can offer the following features:
- Support for any number of user accounts
- Facebook-like publishing method for users (a Wall or an activity stream)
- Forums
- Blogs and microblogs
- Friends
- Groups
- Private messages
- Comments
- Photo and video content
That being said, building and then running a well-constructed social network, utilizing all of the available features, will require some serious work. This is way beyond the scope of this book. So, here, we're only...