Elgg is a open-source social networking platform for building a community based website. Think of a fully customizable MySpace of your own. Elgg V1.0 just launched on August 18th and every week there are new plugins being released from community members. Elgg’s Full Package comes with quite a few useful plugins, but these plugins from the community really bring Elgg to the next level.
This plugin is almost a necessity for a new site. By default when a new user registers there are no pre-loaded widgets on their dashboard and profile. This makes for a pretty confusing and empty looking page. With Default Widgets you can make new users have the widgets of your choice displayed automatically. There are a couple limitations, but nothing that makes this plugin not great.
The User Contact List plugin adds a tab for administrators to view a nice list of registered users, which shows their username, nickname, and email. This plugin also doubles as a contact list in case you need to email a member directly.
Invitations allows you to send out a email to multiple people inviting them to join your community. Great for getting your community started.
Artfolio is basically a image gallery plugin for Elgg. It integrates a rating system and is a definite necessity to Elgg, since by default you can only upload one photo to your profile.
This plugin creates a new widget that dispays a list of a users friends latest blog post. A nice option for your members I would say.
Adds a Widget option to place a tag cloud on your dashboard or profile. Nothing too complex but a nice addition.
Group Feed displays the 10 most recently updated content resources for a group of your choice.
The Latest song widget will display the last 5 songs you listened to on your LastFM account. A great new feature is that it automatically adds the cd cover and album name to the list.
Allows users to add a FriendFeed widget to their profiles. FriendFeed is a service that allows users to create and share a river of their activity across the web.
If you have the file repository plugin enabled, you can install this plugin so when you upload a Mp3 file it can be played in the browser without having to download the file to your computer.
This widget let’s users display their latest flickr photos on their profile. At the moment it does not work in Safari, but possibly will in future releases.
This widget will display all of your latest tweets on your profile.
Coppa adds a check box that requires users to specify that they are over 13 years old when registering. Coppa is a online child protection act. Technically it should ask if users are over 12 years old, but theres nothing wrong with being extra safe.
The Be Tom plugin automatically adds the user of your choice to a newly registered users friend list. Hence the name Be Tom. On Myspace every new user automatically has Tom added to their friend list. This is a great way to make your site not so lonely for new members.
Update: Plugin appears to be obsolete now
For more plugins you can visit the Elgg Community. New plugins are coming out every week so I recommend checking back here for updates or going directly to Elgg.org. Also if you have a plugin I missed or a plugin recommendation post a comment below with the details about it.
good list of plugins for elgg!
I am using some of them on my community website.
I really like the design of your site, great job. Elgg definitely is opening up a lot with all of these new plugins. I hope to see more like them in the future!
This is excellent! Thanks for putting this list together. I’m so impressed with the elgg community. This is really amazing stuff!
I have added another lost for top plugins for running an Elgg community and publish it to my blog as an add to this post!
Great list of elgg’s plugins. I helps me a lot to choose what i need.
Thanks
nice post,i need to know a plugin which can show cartoon pics ,still a person upload his pictures
Nice list of elgg plugins to experiment with!
I plan to test many for our community website.
Is this a dead link?
Be Myspace’s Tom v1.0 1.1
http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/zhoppy/read/3274/be-myspaces-tom-updated
Yeah that does look like a dead link, I’ll go ahead and remove that one. Thanks for pointing that out emetib!
hi
i want show some of my users on the home page.
would you help me?
You are missed this plugin. it is for facebook and twitter integration.
http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/project/612634/developer/Darius10/social-connect-2-facebook-connect-and-twitter-login-for-elgg-17-and-greater