7 best CMS/script for building Social networking website

Posted on November 30, 2014 by 
7 best CMS/script for building Social networking website
The demands of social networking and community sites are increasing rapidly. For building a community/networking site you need to code it from scratch. But if you are not a pro coder or you don’t have a nerd team, building a social networking website is completely impossible. So as non coder to build Social networking website you can use CMS (content management system - readymade platform what helps you to build site) also known as platform software or script. With social networking CMS you will be able to-
  • Build a Social networking website in a short time
  • It can be use for personal or commercial purpose
  • Customizable, so you can modify any part of site as you want
  • Some of these CMS are open source (completely free and you can modify/upgrade the source code) and some of paid.
Let’s see what content management systems I talking about for building Social networking website.

7 best CMS/script for building Social networking website

Dolphin is the world's most advanced community CMS. It is Open source, independent, downloadable, scalable, customizable, full-featured, free software for building social networks, dating sites and web-communities. Loaded with video chat, recorder, video player, forums, groups, events, video messenger, mailbox, desktop app, video sharing, photo sharing, iPhone app and much more. Premium upgrade available.

Jcow is flexible Social Networking software written in PHP. It can help you to: Build a social network for your interests and passions, Build a member community for your existing website, Build a social networking site like Facebook, Twitter. Paid version got more customizable option.

Buddypress is a Wordpress CMS's plugin. After installing Wordpress you will be able to install this plugin and start a minimal social networking site on your Wordpress. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team, or niche community. BuddyPress lets users sign-up and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups, and much more. BuddyPress boasts an ever growing array of new features developed by an awesome plugin development community. There are more than 330 BuddyPress plugins available, and the list is growing every day, multi language supports, updates regularly.

Oxwall is unbelievably flexible and easy to use PHP/MySQL, Community CMS/platform. Oxwall is used for a wide range of projects starting from family sites and custom social networks to collaboration tools and enterprise community solutions.

Beatz is an online social networking community script that allows you to start your own favorite artist band website. Beatz is an online community script for sharing, discussing and learning about new artists and your favorites.

Elgg empowers individuals, groups and institutions to create their own fully-featured social environment. Elgg is an open source social engine which powers all kinds of social environments - from education and business to martial arts and rugby. If you are looking for a professional social intranet or want to run a site for your organization.

Etano can be used to start up a dating site, a social networking site, a classifieds site or any other type of site involving groups of people, companies and products.

CMS are the great choice to make a site specially social networking sites, what got more sensitive functions. So choose what CMS you want to use, go to their site download the script, upload and install that, configure and start your social networking site without tension. Don’t forget to mention what you’ll be use.