The team behind Elgg, the free open source social networking software, launches themes option
Oct 21, 2008 by Mircea Goia MyTestBox News
The interface for Elgg v1.0, the free open source social networking platform, underwent a radical overhaul due to the overwhelming users request for theming.
The team has created two basic themes to help those interested in theming get to grips with the components of an Elgg theme. Check them out here!
Elgg themes are developed as plugins which makes them distributable, customizable and powerful (they can also be enabled and disabled easily).
Here’s a short tutorial on how to get started in theme creation.
There’s a dedicated place on Elgg website for theme development and it can be found here.
Elgg is a pretty new free open source social networking software and recently they launched its first version 1.0. It competes with a plethora of other free social networking platforms like Dolphin, PHPFox, PHPizabi, AroundME, WordPress MU+Buddypress and others.
It is PHP/MySQL built and it seems it’s gaining momentum in this crowded space.
Download it for free from here.
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October 22nd, 2008 at 7:14 am
We have just launched or social network into alpha http://www.adelph.us
It is based on Elgg 0.9.
We have extended the Elgg to include many new features.
Some of these include; integrated e-commerce and micro payments , one of the best feed readers in the world, mini blog based on laconica, and a music store that uses the song bird open source media player
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:57 am
Not clear what your social network does. Is it for what? A general one? A specialized one? What is the market target?
Just curious…
October 27th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Mircea
adelph.us is about bringing the main street web into reality. What we mean by this is that we are trying to bring the best of social technology to everyone, not just to the tech savy. adelph.us is for the rest of us that need to save time, create content, and earn revenue for our selves as well as for the “Community”
December 15th, 2008 at 8:25 am
What is the commerce software do you use? What is the plugin? Where can i download it? I need more info about the commerce software you use.. Thanks a lot!
January 29th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Já tenho um site elgg a que dei o nome de Popplex. É, possivelmente, o primeiro site elgg em português, eu mesmo traduzi-o pois não havia tradução ainda.
É excelente!