It supports forums, blogs, email notifications, user directories, private messages, chats, notification bar, widgets and profile pages.
Installation:
Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Here are some key features of “WP Symposium Social Network”:
Plugins:
· Member Profile
· Notification Bar
· Forum
· Mail/Private Messaging
· Friends
· Chat
· Wall
· Member Directory
· Registration
Widgets:
· Latest New Members
· Latest Forum Posts
Configuration:
· Works with any WordPress theme, and standard WordPress users
· Supports .POT and .po/.mo language files
· Set width of WPS plugins in % or pixels
· Supports all permalink, and default no-permalink settings
· Supports ‘.html on PAGES’ plugin
· Supports ‘SimpleModal Login’ plugin
· Health Check page to help with maintenance
· Option to not load jQuery/jQueryUI and other components if plugins are clashing
Appearance/Styles:
· No need to edit a stylesheet
· Optional Search Engine friendly links within the forum
· Optional Replacement of smiley codes with images, eg. 
· Loads of fun smilies/emoticons to insert
· Even add your own smilies/emoticons
· Change the styles (look and feel) through the admin panel
· Colour Picker popup, no codes needed!
· Set the length of preview text
· Set optional rounded corners
· Uses WordPress member avatars
Languages:
· .POT file included for language translation
· Included (from v0.1.26): English, French
· Automatically reflects WP-LANG setting in wp-config.php
Member profile options:
· Displays member photo (as set via WordPress)
· Displays a wall of posts and replies
· Set privacy levels for personal information and wall posts/replies
· Send Mail to member (if on another member’s page)
· Set personal preferences for site language, layout, sounds, etc
· Depending on privacy level, displays location map, etc
· Displays recently active friends
Member profile settings:
· Set personal language, timezone, notification sounds and position
· Set the name displayed on the site and email address
· Set to receive email notification, or not
· If permitted, change password
Member profile personal:
· Set privacy levels for personal information and their wall
· Date of birth
· City and Country
· Extended information set by the site administrator (any number of additional fields)
Member profile friends:
· Friend requests
· Send mail to friends
· Remove friends
Member profile wall:
· Add posts (most recent acts as a status)
· Reply to posts
· Restricted by privacy levels and friends
Notification bar overview:
· Can be placed at the bottom or top of every page.
· Shows a login/logout link, register link
· Site admin link if an administrator
· Icons for specific purposes, ie: friends online, unread mail messages and friend requests.
· New mail and friend request alerts
· Icons will highlighted with the number of unread messages or friend requests.
· Clicking the friends online icon, will display which friends are online, not active and logged out.
· Clicking on a friends name will open a chat window (and on the recipients screen) for real time chatting.
Notification bar settings:
· Place at top or bottom of page
· Change message to left of the bar
· Shows login/logout link to the right of the bar
· Use WP login/logout or custom URLs
· When logged in alerts show to the right of new mail
· Plays a sound when alerts show (optional)
· Shows friends online
· Set polling intervals for notifications and chat messages
Notification bar chat:
· Real-time live chat
· Messages stored if recipient not online for when they next login
Mail overview:
· Easily send a mail to another member of the site just by typing their display name or location.
· In Box
· Sent ‘box’
· Compose new message
· Delete message
· Reply to message
· Simple layout
· AJAX enabled when switching between messages
· In Box messages highlighted when not read
Directory features:
· Lists members by who was most recently active
· Live search by name and location
· Includes location, latest status post and link to their profile page
· Can search on part of name or location to filter list shown
Registration settings:
· Simple and straightforward
· Checks for valid email address
· Displays password strength indicator
· Checks for unique username and email address
· Takes new member straight to profile page for additional information
· Sends email alert to site administrator when someone joins
Forum settings:
· Option to moderate topics and replies
· Set preview text length
· Enable a daily digest (optional for members)
· Show or hide forum categories
· Change order from newest of oldest replies first
· Set a word to make posts slightly transparent (eg. [closed])
· Limit viewing of forum to particular user levels
· View all topics on the forum, with delete/approve option
Forum categories:
· Optional use of categories
· Order categories
· Default category for new topics (if using categories)
· Set if new Topics allowed or not
· Number of Topics in a Category
· Last topic/reply shown
· How old topics shown as ‘x’ minutes/hours/days ago, etc
· How many total views in each Category
Forum topics:
· Create new topics
· Restrict new topics in certain categories (optionally)
· Site administrators can always create new topics
· Set sticky posts that stay at top of forum (AJAX, no page reload)
· Number of replies to a Topic
· Last post/reply shown
· Edit and Delete topics, posts and replies
· Move Topics between Categories
· How old replies shown as ‘x’ minutes/hours/days ago, etc
· Choose if topic replies are allowed
· Opaque “closed” topics (as defined) if used as support forum
Email notifications:
· Subscribe to new topics in chosen categories
· Subscribe to replies to chosen topics
· Daily Digest to all members for new topics and replies (optionally)
· AJAX selection to subscribe (no page re-load)
· Members can subscribe to receive digests (AJAX)
· Customize email notification address and footer text
Requirements:
What’s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Added support for back/forward/reload browser buttons in the forum when using AJAX
· New Widget: Your Friends (as list of block of avatars)
· Members can reset their avatars (via Profile Photo link on Profile)
· Fixed IE compatibility with jCrop (removed aspectRatio parameter)
· Fixed IE alignment issue on Forum topic page
· Updated jCrop to v0.9.9