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Automattic acquires BuddyPress social networking plugins


Automattic, the company behind the WordPress blogging platform, is becoming known for buying up some of the most creative WordPress hacks out there. They've already snapped up the global avatar service, Gravatar, and added a handful of quality themes by Chris Pearson to their selection of default templates. Now Automattic is taking WordPress into the arena of social networking by hiring designer Andy Peatling and acquiring his BuddyPress plugins.

There's a placeholder page at BuddyPress.com right now, with the Automattic logo and a simple description of what BuddyPress does: transforming "a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform." For an example of what that might look like, you can check out Peatling's work on chickspeak.com, built on BuddyPress. If you're a designer who likes the power and flexibility of WordPress, but you need to get outside the basic blog and put together a full-on social network, user profiles and all, this could be a great solution.

WordPress goes enterprise with KnowNow

KnowNow Wordpress Enterprise EditionAutomattic, the company behind open source blogging platform WordPress and free blog service WordPress.com, has struck a deal with enterprise RSS company KnowNow, who will begin selling KnowNow Wordpress Enterprise Edition (KWEE), a special version of WordPress MU (i.e. Multi-User, the same multi-blog software WordPress.com is built on) that will include special enterprise features like LDAP authentication and analytics.

WordPress CEO Toni Schneider has a post on his blog that describes the deal in greater detail. According to Read/WriteWeb, KWEE will be available both as a KnowNow-hosted package or as a distribution enterprise companies can install on their own servers.

WordPress.com announces VIP Hosting

WordPress.com VIP HostingWordPress.com, the free blog hosting service from the creators of open source blogging software WordPress, has announced a new hosting package for high-profile, high-traffic bloggers. WordPress.com VIP Hosting "allows these folks to piggyback on our WordPress.com infrastructure, getting the benefits of what we've built without the limitations of a free WordPress.com account around theme editing and javascript." It provides load-balancing across WordPress.com's many servers, SSL administration, Subversion access for template editing, the ability to use WordPress plugins that don't require database table modifications, and no limitations on JavaScript or advertising. The service allows users to have their own domain names (rather than example.wordpress.com), but requires a "Powered by WordPress.com" logo. Currently WordPress.com is only courting "existing high-profile publishers or startups" that it has "a good deal of confidence in," and the price reflects that: $250 per month with a one-time $500 setup fee.

[Via Matt Mullenweg]

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