Elgg Social Networking Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Social Networks and Elgg
• Types of Social Networks
• How Can a Social Network Help You?
• Tools of the Trade
• What's so Special About Elgg?
• So, What can Elgg Do?
• Summary

• Chapter 2: A Tour around Elgg
• Playing With Elgg-Powered Networks
• Sign Up
• Account Settings
• Your Profile
• Customize Your Account
• Define Access Privileges
• Your Blog
• Manage Your Files
• Find People
• Make Friends
• Your Community
• Your Messages
• Your Resources
• Your Presentation
• Recent Activity
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Users, Profiles, and Connections
• Connecting to Friends and Users
• Inviting Friends to Join
• Let Elgg Handle Registration
• Build a Profile
• The Various Profile Options
• What is FOAF?
• A Face for Your Profile
• Access Control
• Define Your Own Control Lists
• Making Friends with Internal Members
• Use Your Profile to Find Connections
• Making Connections
• Friendship Moderation
• Managing Friendship Requests
• What's Friend Of?
• Other Account Settings
• Attracting Visitors
• Welcoming Guests
• Administration Options
• Add Users in Bulk
• Change User Settings
• Playing Boss
• Blocking Users
• Can I Formally Warn Users?
• Removing the Ban
• Limiting Users on the Site
• Changing Space Quota
• Sharing Admin Rights
• The Scope of an Elgg Administrator
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Blogging and Resources
• Handling Files
• Creating Folders
• Uploading Files
• Right to Share
• Viewing Files
• Moving and Deleting Files/Folders
• Commenting on Files
• Start Blogging
• Posting a New Entry
• Adding External Videos
• Embedding Files in Blogs
• What Does the Number Mean?
• Saving Drafts
• Mark Posts as Private
• So, Why Use a Plug-in?
• The Draft Post Plug-in
• Editing/Deleting Posts
• What Are Your Friends Blogging About?
• Keeping Track of Posts and Discussions
• Handling Improper Content
• Flagging Improper Posts
• Managing Flagged Content
• Filtering Blog Posts
• Preventing Spam
• Who Can Comment?
• Using Plug-ins
• Implementing Captcha
• Restricting to Anonymous Users
• Increasing the Vocabulary
• Handling Improper Words
• Downloading Blogs
• Managing Resources
• Feeding Stuff
• Creating Feeds
• What Feeds are Available?
• Inducting Feeds
• Adding Feeds from External Sources
• Adding Popular Feeds
• Viewing the Feeds
• RSS Feed for Files
• Podcasting with Elgg
• Listening to Podcasts
• Blogging Podcasts
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Communities and Files
• Creating Communities
• Search for Existing Communities
• Hatching a Community
• Grooming the Community
• Community Profile
• Community Picture
• Announcing the Community
• Joining the Community
• Membership Restriction
• Handling Membership Requests
• Leaving the Community
• Community Ownership
• Using the Community
• Community Blog
• Removing Improper Posts
• Moderating Communities
• Other Community Administration
• Community Forum
• Handling Files
• Creating Folders
• Uploading Files
• Right to Share
• Adding Files to a Community Repository
• Send Messages
• Sharing Bookmarks
• Using Files
• Viewing Files
• RSS Feed for Files
• Moving and Deleting Files/Folders
• Embedding Files in Blogs
• What Does the Number Mean?
• Removing Inappropriate Files/Folders
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Customizing Elgg
• Why Customize?
• What Makes Up a Theme?
• Controlling Themes
• The Default Template
• What are <div> and <span>?
• The pageshell
• CSS Elements in the pageshell
• Other Elements
• The frontpage Files
• The frontpage_loggedout File
• The frontpage_loggedin File
• Content Keywords
• Other Keywords that Can be Used
• Hints for Designing a Custom Template
• Pageshell Hacks
• Add/Remove Elements
• Add a Copyright Notice
• CSS Hacks
• Change Position of Elements
• Fun with Images
• Make Body Use More Space
• Hacking Other Themes
• Adding Public Templates
• Changing Templates
• Different Themes for Different Areas
• Creating Themes Based on Templates
• Creating Themes
• Validating Themes
• Replacing the Default Template
• Contributing Themes
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Elgg Plug-Ins
• General Structures of Plug-Ins
• Things to Remember While Installing Plug-Ins
• The Plug-Ins
• Maintenance Mode
• Custom Metatags in Header
• EasyJoin
• Related Posts
• Tag Suggest and Autocomplete
• Blog Categories
• Forwarder
• Comment Wall
• Recent Comments Keyword
• Logged In Users
• Icons of Site Members
• Calendar
• Adding an Event
• Upcoming Events
• How to Remove Plug-Ins
• Upgrading Plug-Ins
• Summary

• Appendix A: Installing Elgg
• Setting Up LAMP
• Step 1: Install Linux
• Step 2: Install Apache
• Step 3: MySQL
• Step 4: Install PHP Support
• Setting Up WAMP
• Installing Elgg
• Editing config.php
• Creating a Database
• Initial Configuration
• Important Settings
• First Log In

• Appendix B: Elgg Case Study
• Enabling Non-Profits in Colombia
• Connecting Campuses Spread Across the UK
• Other Elgg Networks
• Summary

• Index