New plugin, Elggzone Update Info
Our new free Elgg plugin, Elggzone Update Info, is now available for all our customers. The plugin adds a widget to the admin dashboard, showing the status of your Elggzone plugins. Sometimes we release minor fixes and improvements without telling you. That’s where Elggzone Update Info comes in. The plugin makes it easy for you to keep an eye on new releases. When a new version is available, you will get a notification in the Elgg admin dashboard. Then, if you want to update, just log in to your Elggzone account and download the new package. To take advantage of this new update service,...
Read MoreHow to create a custom page in Elgg
In this tutorial we walk through all the steps to creating a custom Elgg page. A custom page can be used to organize and manage any content. You can add static content like Company Information or pull content from the Elgg database. We’re going to create a page and populate it with a heading and three modules. The modules will display a user avatar, friends and latest blog posts. The Plugin Create a new directory called custompage. In this directory, create a manifest file and an empty file named start.php. A manifest file contains information about the plugin, like author and version. Open...
Read MoreHow to add a custom logo to your Elgg site
In Elgg, you have the ability to add a header text from within the admin panel. In this tutorial you will learn how to replace this header text with an image logo. Create Plugin First and foremost, you must create a new plugin, which should contain all your changes to your Elgg site. If this is new to you, read here first! If you haven’t created a plugin already, you can download the plugin skeleton we’ve created to help you get started, Customizations. Let’s get started. Open customizations and add your logo file to the folder customizations/graphics/. Start out with a moderate size,...
Read MoreGianna, a Stylish, Elegant and Catchy Elgg Theme
We are happy to announce the release of our new theme, Gianna. Gianna is a stylish, elegant and conspicuous Elgg theme. The theme comes with great features, such as responsive design, fullscreen custom background image and more. Gianna allows you to easily add your own background images. Just upload your images to the specified folder and they will automatically be added to the dropdown list in Gianna options panel. Then you can select a single image as background or select multiple images, to display one of them randomly. As all our themes, Gianna is carefully worked through and supports all...
Read MoreElgg 1.8.14, theme updates
As you might know already, Elgg 1.8.14 has been released, and to keep our themes current with the latest Elgg version, we’ve just released a new round of theme updates. The 1.8.14 release includes significant bug fixes to localization in JavaScript, saving blog drafts, and displaying system errors due to token timeouts. In all there were 40 bug fixes and enhancements. If you are already a customer, the latest version of your theme is available from your download...
Read MoreComing soon: Gianna
Here is a new sneak peek for you. We are very excited to work on our next theme Gianna, which will be a theme with full screen background images. Gianna will be a fully responsive minimalistic theme from Elggzone, as you know it. Carefully worked through and supporting all default Elgg plugins. We hope that you like what you see! Please let us know what you think in the comments below. 26b6
Read MoreRegistration Page With Random Fullscreen Background Image
When visitors want to register on your site, they probably already know what it’s all about. But why not stimulate their interest with some nice appealing background images. Our new free Elgg plugin, Random Background, does just this. When visiting registration page, a jQuery function randomly select an image. The example above shows the result when used with theme Business. You can easily replace the supplied images with your own backgrounds. Upload your background images to the folder graphics / backgrounds / and paste the file names in the file random.php. We hope that you like Random...
Read MoreWhat’s Up, Elggzone?
Maybe you have been wondering what we are actually doing at Elggzone when we are not in the process of creating new themes. Well, we’re working! We continually work to improve and update our current theme collection and our free plugins. We want to be sure that our themes always play well with the latest Elgg release. You can easily check out when your theme was last updated by logging in to Elggzone and go to your download page or by visiting a theme in our shop. There you will see the date. Recently, we’ve included a new and improved options panel in all our themes. The panel...
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