mobSocial - A free Social Network plugin for nopCommerce

We are currently developing mobSocial, a free Social Network plugin to compliment nopCommerce and drive additional traffic to your store. Below is a summary of the current features with some examples:

Current Feature Set

- Profile Pages
- Team Pages
- Friends (Requests, Confirmations, Profile Pictures, Friends Tab)

Next Release Highlighted Features

- Business Pages (Hours of Operation, Friends)
- Custom Profile URLs (e.g. yourstore.com/johnqadams)


The official release of mobSocial 0.1 is slated for sometime in December. If you are interested in joining the mobSocial Team and contributing, please contact us on codeplex or send me a private message.

Hi Bruce,

Looks promising

a.m. wrote:

Thanks Andrei. It will be exclusively for nopCommerce.

It seems to be a nicer add-on for creating a community around very powerful e-commerce site. Very useful for all the sites focusing on building community!


Thanks for sharing.

You're welcome. We are looking forward to our first official release in December and making it an easy to install plugin listed in the nopCommerce extensions directory.

Hi Breakskater,

Nopcommerce is new to me. I look for the features of mobSocial in Nopcommerce and have tried your project.
It seem ok until I click CONFIGURE the widget of mobSocial. Is it needed to configure something? I do not see your configure view.

Would you please give some clues in order to have your mobSocial installed correctly? In fact, I have done following
- Add Mob.Core and adjust the reference in the project (VS2013)
- Add Plugin and adjust the reference in the project
- Copy the theme mobSocial to folder theme and activate it
- Enable forum, private message, customer profile, avartar
- Compile and install the plugin successfully
- Go to Content management/Widget and enable Widget

- I am getting stuck at the step of configuring Widget.

Thanks for your advice.

mitdacit wrote:

Hi mitdacit, at this time, there is no configuration. Once you install the plugin, it will add the necessary Social Network tables, and it should work out of the box. In addition, if you need Team Pages then you must configure them using SQL Server Management Studio. In a future release, you will be able to add Team Pages through the Social Network Navigation panel on the My Account screen. The next release will have Business Pages (not implemented yet) and Custom Profile URLs (already implemented).

Is the People Search and Friend Requests working?

Hi Breakskater,

It is great to hear that because I have just worried if I missed any configuration :).

For the Friend Request, it seems ok (I have to check the controller to see the link to send friend request. I do not find on the navigation/widget).

For the Search People, it does not work properly: I debug step by step and see that the back-end returns the values (people) according to my keyword, but on the presentation, there's nothing indicating the search has some results.  It might be that I try to run the plugin in version Nop 3.2.

Thank you very much for your great initiation of this kind of features.

Hi Breakskater

I forgot one thing: Team page. How to add it manually via SQL Management Tools? which table, column, or setting is needed? do you have any guideline/docs for reference? I really appreciate for your sharing

Again, Thank you very much.

mitdacit wrote:
To send a friend request, you must click the "Add Friend" button on the user's profile page.

mitdacit wrote:
The plugin should work in version 3.2. Make sure that the necessary javascript files and the mobSocial theme SearchBox.cshtml view are in place. Let me know if it works.

mitdacit wrote:
We will modify the readme with instructions on how to add Team pages. Take a look at the GroupPage and GroupPageMember tables.