Features¶
Showcases: https://elgg.org/showcase
For developers¶
- Permissive license
- Theme framework
- Internationalization
- Templating engine
- Widgets framework
- Plugin APIs
- Social graph
- Web services API
- jQuery-based JS framework
- Session management
- Custom URL routing
For admins¶
- User profiles and avatars
- Fine-grained access control lists
- Friends and friends lists (ala G+ circles)
- Responsive, mobile-friendly design
- RSS support
- Activity stream
- Plugins for common content types like blogs, bookmarks, files, microblogging, private messages, documents, message boards, discussion
- User authentication and administration
If you need more functionality than what Elgg offers out-of-the-box there are a couple of options:
- Add more by installing plugins - for example, blogs, forums, social bookmarks
- Develop your own features via plugins
- Hire someone to do the above for you