Overview
The Social Connect plugin allows your Elgg users to connect to your website through a number of external social networks. With Social Connect users can easily register for a new account on your Elgg website using Facebook, Google+, MySpace, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Windows Live, and many more. But also the Social Connect plugin simplifies the login process of existing users, that can now access your Elgg installation via all of the supported networks.
If you are an Elgg developer, Social Connect gives you as much control as you need by triggering hooks and raising events as users are registered, connected or logged into the system.
Social Connect uses HybridAuth as the connection engine and was loosely inspired by the elgg_social_login plugin.
It currently supports the following social networks (known as "providers" in the plugin):
But even more social networks can be added with the additional providers offered by HybridAuth (a complete list is at http://hybridauth.sourceforge.net/userguide.html). The underlying HybridAuth engine is always kept up-to-date, so as to give you the best and most reliable authentication engine.
Screenshots
The settings page, where you can configure each of the available providers as well as set up debugging and test the requirements:
The registration page, where users can choose to register through one of the available providers:
And finally, what the login page and dropbox look like when the plugin is installed and enabled: