Customizing your site

Now that you have completed a tour of your site, now is a great time to consider some possible design decisions. You probably have a set of requirements for your site or at least a general idea of how you would like it to work. As you worked through this chapter, you may have written down features that you would like to add or change to satisfy those requirements. If not, we have included a list of customizations that are often requested or discussed in the Elgg community forums. They can serve as examples to make you start thinking about your site. Many of them are already available as plugins that you can download and install.

Ideally, you should have a list of possible customizations ready before you read Chapter 6. That chapter describes the process of customizing an Elgg site by installing plugins. In it, you will learn how to find plugins, evaluate their quality, and install them on your site. If you are a developer (or are interested in learning a little web development...