What do you mean by "YouTube plugin"?

I don't know if it is against Elgg's netiquette to necro an old thread, but it fits the question I was just searching for perfectly, so I try my luck.

As the OP of this thread wrote: For Elgg [now:] 6, there is no functioning market plugin and also no plugin for video integration (which I assume OP meant) available.

Both are things that my site's users have requested, with a few of them even saying that without these options, the site's usefulness is very small for them (it's mostly about music promotion).

Are there any working plugins for shop or video available for Elgg 6 at all? Whether free or paid?

On Github, I found a new, promising sounding Paypal Marketplace plugin:

https://github.com/mwrightdev/paypal_marketplace

Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me (no settings page available), thus I cannot test it.

I also tried some older plugins, e.g.

https://elgg.org/plugins/3130536 (Agora Classifieds) --> won't work on my installation

https://elgg.org/plugins/2600158 (Market) --> won't work on my installation

https://elgg.org/plugins/594161 (iZap e-Commerce) --> Last updated 20312 days ago; not available anymore

https://elgg.org/plugins/384975 (iZAP-Videos) --> won't work on my installation

I know the WZM website and they have some e-commerce plugins, but they are for Elgg 5 and depend on their own individualised theme which doesn't suit my project.

Are there any such plugins available from anyone? Or plans for it? Is there no other Elgg-platform anymore that could use such plugins? I'm wondering who is using Elgg these days and for what purposes. The Elgg community seems to have shrinked dramatically during the last decade or so. I don't know what happened there, but I think that today we need alternatives to big corp more than ever, and Elgg works really nicely for me after I finally got everything running as I wanted.

I wished I could help with such plugins. If I would have the skills, I would take old plugins and try to renew them. Unfortunately, I'm not able to do that.

https://elgg.org/plugins/2600158 (Market) --> won't work on my installation

Market plugin is supported by me at the request of Elgg community.

I'll try to find time to update it for Elgg 6.

On Github, I found a new, promising sounding Paypal Marketplace plugin

There are many developer errors in the plugin code.

There is also this plugin, but it's for Elgg 5 too.

There are many server scenarios possible. Therefore, it's simply impossible to give you any guidance or provide you with a tutorial of how to set up a VPS that would be specific enough for your situation. I can only suggest that you try to find a suitable guide/instruction by doing a Google search. Doesn't your webhoster provide support? Ask them first. I would expect a hosting plan contains at least a pre-configured VPS with the typical services (LAMP stack) already working. If you have not much experience in server administration you might choose a webhoster that offers the necessary support. This is unlikely to be the cheapest host but that's how it is.

Installing Elgg is the step following the setup of the VPS, i.e. as long as your VPS is not fully working and fulfils the requirements of Elgg there's no point of installing Elgg.

Thank You iionly!