Most of the end user functionality in Elgg comes from plugins. If you downloaded the full Elgg bundle it will come with a selection of plugins pre-loaded, which are listed below. If you downloaded the core engine, you can find a list of available plugins over at elgg.org.
You may find the instructions for downloading and installing plugins useful.
Core features
- User, object, file and site management
- Social graph functionality (relationships between users and other users, objects and sites)
- Multiple sites (or applications) per installation (coming soon)
- Easy internationalisation support
- System-wide, tag-based searching across all content and users
- Fine-grained access controls
- Multiple views, allowing for mobile applications and embeddable widgets as well as the traditional web browser view
- Event, plugin and widget APIs
- RSS, FOAF, XFN for content syndication
- OpenID, OpenSocial
- Open Data Definition and an increasing number of data portability formats for import / export
- An extensible RESTful API, with results in JSON, serialised PHP or XML
- AJAX through jQuery and user-definable callbacks
- Easy extension for use with caching systems such as memcached, for increased system performance
- Use of multiple database connections for scalability (still in development)
Built-in features
Optional plugins
Community contributed plugins
