How-To
Introducing the P2 Theme: Blogging in Realtime
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P2 brings blogging into realtime – whether alone or as a group, public or private. This short video takes you through the unique features of the P2 theme, available for your WordPress.com or self-hosted WordPress blog today
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May 6, 2009
May 6, 2009 at 12:27 am
… and there was light !
May 6, 2009 at 10:16 pm
cool
May 6, 2009 at 12:30 am
Looks really fantastic Michael. Well done. Looking forward to finding a use for this one!
Aris
May 6, 2009 at 2:57 am
Wow, simply lovable!
May 6, 2009 at 8:48 am
That is insanely clever – basically allowing you to turn WordPress into something like Twitter (with better features).
You guys are awesome.
May 6, 2009 at 9:27 am
And a pseudo british narrator – brilliant!
May 11, 2009 at 3:21 am
Last time I checked I was the real thing. Do let me know where I should forward my credentials
May 11, 2009 at 12:24 pm
LOL
May 6, 2009 at 9:31 am
reminds me of a wordpress based twitter! cool.
May 6, 2009 at 11:14 am
Poor Twitter, once the hype runs out it’s going to be lights out.
May 6, 2009 at 11:15 am
Very cool Michael
May 6, 2009 at 11:26 am
it’s really cool! i love it! you can communicate with other people just like with an instant messenger, wait, i use icq for this..i think i will use the blog as a blog and not an instant messenger, sorry folks
May 7, 2009 at 10:44 pm
So you don’t have a use for it. Don’t use it. A creative individual might find dozens of uses for it, so is there any particular reason to be a prick about it?
May 6, 2009 at 11:32 am
This sounds very easy and interesting, will try…
May 6, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Awesome them and concept
Does that mean tittering has come WordPress?
Looks cool and just what the doc ordered.
May 6, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Awesome! It’s a great idea to compete Twitter.
May 6, 2009 at 2:08 pm
This would be cool as more of a plugin for a current blog; mix together micro posts and full length posts to your current blog… that would be rad.
May 6, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Very cool. This would be great for quick collaboration among team members working on the same project.
May 6, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Hm. It doesn’t really look like a blog anymore, just some sort of forum.
- Lora
May 7, 2009 at 1:35 am
Blogs are evolving.
May 7, 2009 at 4:25 am
To a bunch of useless posts?
May 29, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Useless: Just like Twitter
This would be a great internal communication tool, where Twitter-style IMs & logging them for collaboration would make more sense.
May 6, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Great theme.
Though I notice on a single post page, the navigation to the next older posts actually states “Newer post” (and vice-versa). This should be switched around, no?
May 8, 2009 at 7:42 am
Sure, this was fixed in yesterday’s release.
May 6, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Wordpress/Facebook/Twitter have just had a child.
May 6, 2009 at 8:26 pm
kinda interesting, but its just a twitter clone with a few more features…
May 6, 2009 at 9:00 pm
agree with renderedchild, I’d like this in a side bar or mixed with a normal type blog.
May 6, 2009 at 9:26 pm
agree, bright one!!
you wrote a whole new chapter for blogging!
May 6, 2009 at 10:15 pm
It would be nice if P2 blogs could interact to create a Twitter-like community
May 6, 2009 at 10:29 pm
It goes awesomely with WordPress Mu/BuddyPress, just create a feedback blog and within 5 minutes you are done
May 6, 2009 at 10:40 pm
just when I thought I was understanding how to start a blog, it turns into twitter? disappointed…too in the moment – need the luxury to read “articles” and well-thought out paragraphs, not just percolations…
May 6, 2009 at 10:46 pm
awsome
May 6, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Reeeeeally want to try it! Specially the thought of starting to integrate the 1,000 windows we now use, I know it’s not there yet, but I am sure soon it will be. thanks!
May 6, 2009 at 11:24 pm
This is a very very exciting function!
May 7, 2009 at 1:19 am
Kickass. Its like a forum, mixed with a non-account-based twitter type of thing. I would probably create a new page in my blog and use it there; i wouldn’t use this theme for my whole blog. But it looks fantastic.
May 7, 2009 at 3:18 am
is kinda cool!!
but.. isn’t it almost the same IRC achieved a decade before?
oh yes.. I forgot to mention youtube ..
but on IRC they used images, colors, emoticons, sounds, animations, connections and plenty of more.. almost a matrix application…
I think we are rediscovering the wheel
nevertheless… I think it is a good start for a new change
May 7, 2009 at 3:47 am
w – o – w
May 7, 2009 at 3:56 am
Wow, awesome!!!!!!!!
May 7, 2009 at 5:20 am
wow.. it’s amazing!!!!
May 7, 2009 at 6:24 am
De lujo, ya faltaba esto en wordpress.
Thats great !!!
May 7, 2009 at 6:31 am
hm, interesting!
May 7, 2009 at 6:52 am
cool
May 7, 2009 at 8:44 am
Another twitterstyle tool. Another thing to become addicted to. Looks good
May 7, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Hello guy’s this owesome, great, this is what i was looking for ,congradulations..!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 7, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Lemme get this straight: You produced a video to promote a game changing feature for WP blogs… and forgot to post a link to where we can get that feature?
Idea: A
Video: A
Link: F
May 7, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Fyi… http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2
May 8, 2009 at 7:37 am
Like all of our themes, P2 is available at the WordPress Free Themes Directory.
May 7, 2009 at 5:03 pm
SO NICE…
May 8, 2009 at 2:39 am
nice
May 8, 2009 at 10:16 am
eh?
May 8, 2009 at 3:01 pm
nice
May 8, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I’ve been looking for a simple Q&A forum without the hassles on WP. Looks like I’ve found it.
The comments have so many great ideas for its use – perhaps I’ll use it as a page for clients like a private membership site too.
Thanks for making P2 free.
May 11, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Hey the theme totally rocks, great job everyone! I’m definitely gonna find some project to use this
May 19, 2009 at 8:37 pm
woow!
May 19, 2009 at 9:07 pm
cool
May 23, 2009 at 10:07 am
This is really great, though there’s no need for people to see it as a twitter competitor, there’s enough space online for personalised as well global, P2 opens the door for many other uses for wordpress, just like some of the other alternative use themes which have been coming out in the last year or 2.
I’ve even being toying with the idea of making a task management/light project management theme for WordPress.
May 23, 2009 at 11:31 am
How can I post a picture or a link?
May 27, 2009 at 7:16 am
… and there was light !
May 29, 2009 at 5:18 am
interesting, when i rty and embed the video into my post (like shown in the video) – it just shows up as text.
May 29, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Amazing theme!
That’s really more like my style!
Just so cool!
Great job!
June 9, 2009 at 8:47 am
This is the ever best wordpress i come to know and using
June 13, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Amazing! Great job!
June 13, 2009 at 10:49 pm
wow.. it’s amazing!!!!
June 23, 2009 at 3:44 pm
brilliant! new era for wordpress users
June 30, 2009 at 1:46 am
How customisable is this theme?
June 30, 2009 at 4:33 am
There aren’t many dashboard options for this theme, but it’s open source, so you can do whatever you like with it.
July 3, 2009 at 6:37 am
I can understand and I agree with you because very useful updating.
So much
July 30, 2009 at 10:36 am
Can somebody tell me? How can I put an Image? Not a Link, but an Image?
July 30, 2009 at 9:44 pm
You can use the IMG tag in order to get images into your posts if you have the source URL, but if you want to upload an image to be part of the post, you’ll need to head to your admin section and use the regular post interface. Simply use the media tools like a non-P2 blog.
September 8, 2009 at 12:18 am
why to have to always go to the dashboard – even to post an image ?
October 30, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Mmmm, the theme is good, but it’s so unfinished. If you only allow logged in users to post and they go to their profile… AAAH! it’s back to the old wordpress admin look! Holy smelly fish, this is ugly, I mean, why have you not themed the backend as well????
THIS is the feature that still makes twitter great and this woprdpress theme sucky. C’mon on guys finish the job, make a ‘total experience’ not a half cut job! I now have to use another plugin to theme the backend and login AAAHH …
November 29, 2009 at 7:25 pm
p2 is pretty cool.
April 16, 2010 at 7:41 am
We hope to use p2 in our new web hosting website for better conversations between users. A great way to create a support forum!
June 20, 2010 at 7:38 am
Hey I love this one! I was trying to think of how to make it work in tandem with a partner site. One would be for promoting community engagement, and the other would be content support. With custom menus, you can bop back and forth (does P2 have custom menus yet?). What about the sites searching eachother? I put Meebo on my site, but I’d rather use P2.
June 21, 2010 at 6:57 pm
P2 doesn’t have navigation menus, but you can add a custom menu to your sidebar using the custom menu widget and populate it with your content of choice. Searching both sites would require self-hosted blogs with some integration work.