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Introducing a powerful open-source social networking engine. Providing you with the core components needed to build a socially aware web application. Elgg is an award-winning open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments, from a campus-wide social network for your university, school or college or an internal collaborative platform for your organization to a brand-building communications tool for your company and its clients. Learn about the requirements and steps needed to install Elgg on your server. Find detailed information about Elgg's architecture, approach and features. Get inspiration from other projects powered by Elgg. This is a handy resource to search and find out what functions exist within Elgg. Find the ideal plugins and themes in our repository of community-sourced projects.
Features
- Plugins & Themes
- Source Code
- Feedback & Planning
- Beginning Developers Group
- Our tutorials will guide you through tComposer is the package manager of choice that greatly simplifes installation and maintenance of Elgg core and pluginse first steps
- Well-documented core API that allows developers to kick start their new project with a simple learning curve
- Extendable system of views that allows plugins to collaborate on application’s presentation layer and built out complex custom themes
- Cacheable system of static assets that allows themes and plugins to serve images, stylesheets, fonts and scripts bypassing the engine
Project Samples
