This plugin allows you to create one or more categories for your users to select for their blogs at signup and later on.

This offers you a way to easily separate your blog community into different segments which you can then group together

For example:

  • Teachers and students
  • Geography teachers, Math teachers, French teachers etc.
  • Guitarists, Bassists, Drummers
  • Real estate agents, Surveyors, Lawyers
  • The possibilities are endless...

 

Users can then change the category via the admin panel, should they wish to.

This plugin is highly adaptable and can be used for a number of different purposes such as blogs associated with countries, topics or anything else you fancy.

For example...

  • ... at Edublogs teachers emails can be added to one mailing list, and students to another
  • ... on a fishing site you can produce a front page (or customized dashboard) for shore / deep sea or fly fishers

To take it one step further and you now have the meta data at your fingertips to allow you or your developers to create dynamic front pages (or any other sort of content) which list users, posts, tags and other data associated with that group.

Before 2011 we'll be updating this plugin to allow that to happen with greater ease (i.e. less development) too... so stay tuned to wpmu.org for updates.

Naturally the new version will be able to use all the data collected by this older version, so the sooner you start collecting - the more options you'll have later on.

If you like this plugin, you might also be interested in:

1.  Blogs directory - creates a fantastic, searchable, directory of all the blogs on your site

2.  Members Directory - like the blogs directoy, except for members - very powerful community and site management tool

3.  Blogs widget - A great widget that lists, in a number of different ways, all the different blogs on your site

blogs widget