welcome to elgg lol

nice post, i agree 100%

Can the Elggers with running sites post a list with their added plugins? Which ones have you found most useful and chosen to keep after testing?

PS: That's "Praise" not "Prise". Let's be morphologically and not just php correct. English is a language too :) 

Sorry for the typo: prise should be praise :)

My dear fellow Elgger Michele

You should be scared :) Nice running site you have. One comment on my part: You've hidden the menu from the public, which is good, but I can just type the links below for example, and still look at what you've got behind the walled garden. Solution?

http://www.socialbusinessworld.org/activity

http://www.socialbusinessworld.org/members

lol @rm@nd@

@rm@nd@, there is a plugin called login_required.  it blocks all pages regardless, unless you are logged in

Problem: People want to restrict access to only logged in users but at the same time have the menu/theme visible to the public. Now restricting access means that the theme/menu will disappear and the plain white login box will appear. If you want to change this plain white login page, you'll have to edit custom_index and as Cash said, "become familiar with the Elgg's view system."

Proposed solution: 

Create a plugin that allows to have the site running as a semi open garden. 

The menu/theme is visible to the public so that the site looks attractive but when the non-logged in person clicks on a menu tab, for example, "Activity", "Blogs", "Bookmarks", "Files", "Photos", "The Wire", "Members" etc., the message appears "You must be logged in to view that page."

This is, for example, how "contact us" works. 

http://community.elgg.org/plugins/816561/Orten/contact-us-form-for-elgg-18

In an open garden "contact us" is visible to but not accessible by the public.

If people have this plugin, they'll stop always asking the same question about how to modify the walled garden plain white login box page (custom_index).

Too bad I don't have a scarier avatar and the time to create an account at your site and start complaining!! Privacy, privacy, where is my privacy? Where is my data physically located? Which country? Unless it's in neutral Switzerland and the server is underground protected by people with guns who look and act like Darth Vader, I am not happy with your site!!

My praise as well. Developers, please don't leave this community no matter how much money advocates of closed source, closed mind, closed heart offer you.