This page shows what’s possible with the Friends plugin for WordPress.
While the plugin allows you to connect to your friends’ blogs, it’s also a powerful way for consuming the web, hosted on your own blog, accessible only to you.
Read articles in a Clean UI

Subscribe to Multiple Feeds per Person
Filter & Modify Incoming Content

Browsing Content by Type
Subscribe to different types of content and browse them combined or together.
Saving Content
When you come across something you’d like to keep or re-use:
From your Feeds

From the Web


Since the full text is saved, you can search for its content later, too.
Re-using Content
Send them to your E-Reader
Reading longer articles on a reader offers a nice experience. When you send a couple of articles, you can read them all later when you have time.

Publish them in a new feed

Combine this!
- Save from the web,
- Reformat/strip using Gutenberg,
- Send to your E-Reader
Notifications
Via E-Mail

Send full articles directly your E-Reader when they arrive

You can make new content be sent to your E-Reader automatically.
Plugins
The Friends plugin is a plugin for WordPress but it can be itself extended with plugins:

This allows for selective expansion of features depending on what people need. See our Issue Tracker.