P2 for Wordpress

Comments 06 May 2009

I use Wordpress for this blog because I like the flexibility of it. I consider Wordpress a blogging powerhouse! It can do anything you want it to do. So when I saw the P2 theme for Wordpress, I was a little surprised.

I came across the theme through a post on Matt Mullenweg’s Blog.

A group blog theme for short update messages, inspired by Twitter. Featuring: Hassle-free posting from the front page. Perfect for group blogging, or as a liveblog theme. Dynamic page updates. Threaded comment display on the front page. In-line editing for posts and comments. Live tag suggestion based on previously used tags. A show/hide feature for comments, to keep things tidy. Real-time notifications when a new comment or update is posted. Super-handy keyboard shortcuts. Helvetica Neue for you modern font lovers. And more to come…

The theme would remind anyone of twitter, so I wondered what the benefits of having a blog like this would be? I see how it would be very easy as an internal blog for a company or group. Matt said on his blog:

It completely transformed how Automattic works internally and I think is one of the most valuable things we’ve adopted in the past year. I’m on the road a lot, and sometimes my only connection is checking the mobile-optimized P2 on my iPhone.

But how would this theme play out on a public facing blog? What would be some good uses for it?

I think it would be interesting to see these features as a part of a regular wordpress blog. For example if I wanted to host this kind of a conversation on my blog, but I still wanted to have traditional blog posts, you could select P2 as a post type. I think that would be really interesting.

I would love to hear everyone’s thoughts on this, and get a look at some cool ways that this theme is being used.

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Torben Brams

I also would love to see how it may be integrated with a standard WP Theme because in many ways it will be much easier to use than the traditional forum plugins I have seen so far - but it will not suffice on my sites as THE theme.

In the perfect world, I can to maintain load of page and post based information alongside the dynamic P2 communication.

Tim

I like the possibilities for this theme! I'm going to try it as an internal communications tool for my church youth group. We wanted a solution that was members only (for privacy) but also easy to implement and use. Viola! P2 saves the day! Use P2 and a membership plugin and everything comes together! The easy-to-use tagging could be a much simpler than twitter's hash tagging.

I like that it is so easy to use that almost anyone can use it for posting! Youth leaders, teens, and parents, even if they've never blogged before, can easily type out a micro-blog post and a few tags!

I'm also curious about some public uses for it.

Tim

I like the possibilities for this theme! I'm going to try it as an internal communications tool for my church youth group. We wanted a solution that was members only (for privacy) but also easy to implement and use. Viola! P2 saves the day! Use P2 and a membership plugin and everything comes together! The easy-to-use tagging could be a much simpler than twitter's hash tagging.

I like that it is so easy to use that almost anyone can use it for posting! Youth leaders, teens, and parents, even if they've never blogged before, can easily type out a micro-blog post and a few tags!

I'm also curious about some public uses for it.