Finding plugins

After experimenting with Elgg for the last three chapters, you probably have a list of what you would like to add to or change about the site. The next step is to find plugins that do what you want. The first place to look is the Elgg community plugin repository (http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/all/), as shown in the following screenshot. Hundreds of people have uploaded over a thousand plugins to the repository. The quality of the plugins in the repository varies greatly. Many were written by professional developers who work with Elgg as a full-time job. Others were coded by software developers who like to dabble in plugin development in their free time. Still others were created by people with no prior development experience, but who have figured out how to customize some aspect of Elgg and want to share it with others.

In this section, we cover how to find plugins in the community plugin repository and how to evaluate their quality before downloading them. We conclude...