By looking at the site, you could use Tidy Pics plugin to accomplish your idea. You could add more fields to the picture description so that when uploading your users enter the info of the vehicle uploaded

Rodolfo Hernandez

Arvixe/Elgg Community Liaison

Sounds like you need a custom "cars" plugin.

The best solution is to create a plugin for cars as evan suggested. With a little jQuery, you can add a functioning slideshow of the images. The rest can all be done easily through Elgg's APIs. Take a look at the blog/bookmarks plugin of core and you can start developing a new plugin.

Dito, Looking for the same, and talking in greek is no help. But I see several people asking for a Car Plugin, and the comments are always like this, useless. Please, can you all explain yourselfs better. Pretend we're dumb, because when it comes to elgg, indeed that we are.

Oh, and I would like to point out a couple better Car Comunities as examples:  MotorTopia.com and  CarDomain.com

Oki;-) What y'all looking for does not already exist. NYL's descriptions - can be done in elgg - coded by a Developer who can code with the API. For non-Devs..? Find some Dev, hire & have your cake re: this kinda code development. There's no point&click utility available that can write code for you.

Agree with Dhrup 100%. Devs can only give you quick references/guiding on how to develop these things. If you are familiar with php/Elgg or any MVC architecture system, you can easily develops these plugins for your systems. No dev here can keep on releasing plugins based on the specific requirements made by the new comers in community. People develop and release plugins when they get free time, when they find that elgg lacks some thing vital, as part of some of the works their clients sponsored etc.. From the above comments you have received three suggestions, 

1. Modify tidypics
2. Custom car plugin
3. Modify bookmarks / blog plugin

have you tried any of it? If you dont want to make your hands dirty, but in need of the code hire a dev (head on to professional group) > get your plugin developed by him/her and release it to community.

FYI : there are many elgg based car communities too...

If this is code, point me to a primer and I'll be in heaven. But all I see is a gui

Could you list some of those car communities that use elgg

Been playing with tidypics and many other plugjns, and starting to get something resembling what I want. But, no I haven't found any custom car plugin

'is code' ? nuffink to point at ;( there ain't existing code | plugin that handles 'automotive social network cars..' ;-oO y not -> yew be the first and get one developed, hire a Developer if necessary - then *everyone can benefit off your magnanimousity.

There are no ready to use plugin available for creating an automobile site. As explained before, you can use the tidypics plugin for the same or just modify the files/blogs plugin with required fields. Tidypics is a complicated plugin for a beginner. Take a look at the blog/bookmarks plugin which are well commented. Here are some useful links for you. 

• http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Plugin_development
• http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Tutorials/Blog 

Here is an automobile community built on Elgg 1.7 series. You can read about the case study.

@NYL, I think I might have this worked out for you PM me for my idea. You can look at what I just put together called The Garage. I beleive it can be configure to your needs.

Steve