How to Add a Customizable Homepage in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Friday, 5 October 2012 01:40 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Tuesday, 9 October 2012 12:00

Elgg is a very flexible social networking platform. However if you want to customize the homepage, you had to edit code. Now is different, you can edit it without editing any code.  In this article I will give you a step by step guide on how to create a customizable home page in elgg 1.8

1. To have a customizable homepage, we will use a tool called Homepage CMS for elgg 1.8 You can download it here

2. After downloading the plugin, upload the plugin to the mod folder of your Elgg network to install it. If you don’t know how to do that, please read this article.