Elgg
A social networking engine in PHP/MySQL (by Elgg)
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| Elgg | BuddyPress | |
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| 11 | 15 | |
| 1,621 | 225 | |
| 0.3% | 2.2% | |
| 9.4 | 9.3 | |
| 4 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| GNU General Public License v2.0 only | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Elgg
Posts with mentions or reviews of Elgg.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-06.
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What is the most useful project you've ever worked on?
It's this: https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg
It's pretty long in the tooth now - it's pretty old! But there's an amazing community and new core team that still keeps it up to date.
- Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?
- Elgg – open-source social networking engine
- Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?
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is there a CMS that produces social networks or communities?
Elgg. https://elgg.org/
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What does r/php think about Elgg 10 years later?
[Elgg](https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg) is an open source social networking engine, that received bad opinions on r/php ten years ago.
- Please help a girl out 😘
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DIY Nextdoor
Maybe something like ELGG could be a base depending on your skills. I still was unhappy with that and started down a custom route but stagnated due to the time sink.
- What are the more unknown frameworks you ever used?
- Exotic/unknown frameworks?
BuddyPress
Posts with mentions or reviews of BuddyPress.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-19.
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Any easy way for users to register in wordpress and can upload text, images, links etc facebook style?
BuddyPress - https://buddypress.org/
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Looking for Facebook/Nextdoor alternative for Civic League
The final thought that comes to mind is BuddyPress, a plugin for WordPress sites. A pretty decent option if you already have a WordPress site setup.
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Child care - matching parents with foster parents
As you're building a community site to allow parents and foster parents to create their own user profiles and potentially interact with each other, buddypress can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you.
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Best way to create a community website
I'd probably be remiss if I didn't also mention buddypress, which some like for creating a social/community space based on WordPress. I much prefer a forum, but you should at least look into buddypress a little.
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Can Wordpress help me make a blog (image below explains) where users can select topics they’re interested in, add these topics to their profiles, have a calendar with important dates, author profiles and more. The image will explain more
Yes you can make the site in Wordpress. Some development work needed for sure. Please check Buddypress https://buddypress.org/ This a free plugin by Automattic.
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New theme system is incoming! Basically you can create iOS & Android mobile apps or even Windows & MacOS programs with.. a WordPress Theme! You can self-host your data in your server.
My long-term plan: Adding BuddyPress support ( https://buddypress.org/ ) so basically wordpress+quasar social system with groups, forums, private chats etc. Adding WooCommerce support ( https://woocommerce.com/ ) so e-commerce..
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New theme system is incoming! Basically you can create iOS & Android mobile apps or even Windows & MacOS programs with.. a WordPress Theme!
Adding BuddyPress support ( https://buddypress.org/ ) so basically wordpress+quasar social system with groups, forums, private chats etc.
- Any ideas for the self hosted portal: L&D, news, team structure with AD integration?
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Ask HN: Is there a self-hosted alternative to Facebook Groups?
You can try Buddypress for WordPress, it should be easy to make a small fb clone. https://buddypress.org/
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Nextdoor replacement?
I've never used either, but there's BBpress and BuddyPress from the makers of WordPress: https://bbpress.org/ https://buddypress.org/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Elgg and BuddyPress you can also consider the following projects:
HumHub - HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.
Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
OSSN - Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is a social networking software written in PHP. It allows you to make a social networking website and helps your members build social relationships, with people who share similar professional or personal interests. It is available in 17 international languages.
Oxwall
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
phpBB - phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
Anahita - Anahita is a platform and framework for developing open science and knowledge sharing applications on a social networking foundation.