Elgg Social Networking -- Table of Contents -- Elgg Social Networking -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- Preface -- What This Book Covers -- Who is This Book for -- Conventions -- Reader Feedback -- Customer Support -- Errata -- Questions -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 6. Customizing Elgg -- Why Customize? -- What Makes Up a Theme? -- Controlling Themes -- The Default Template -- What are and ? -- 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 -- Pageshell with Tagline and Site Name -- Add a Copyright Notice -- Original Footer -- Footer with Custom Text -- CSS Hacks -- Change Position of Elements -- Menu Column in the Right-Side -- Menu Column in the Left-Side -- Fun with Images -- The Old Logo Definition with Color -- The New Logo Definition with an Image called rain.gif -- The New Header Background Definition -- Make Body Use More Space -- Existing Container Division -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- B. Elgg Case Study -- Enabling Non-Profits in Colombia -- Connecting Campuses Spread Across the UK -- Other Elgg Networks -- Summary -- Index.