Elgg Friends Gallery
We are happy to announce the release of a new free Elgg plugin, Friends Gallery. Friends Gallery is for the Elgg 1.8 branch only. Besides adding a Friends Gallery, this plugin provides a tabbed interface to excisting friends views. You can see it in action in our Theme Demo. User and pass: elegance. Installing Friends Gallery is pretty straightforward, as with all Elgg plugins. Upload the folder friendsgallery to www.yourelgginstallation.com/mod/ and enable the plugin under Elgg Administration. That’s it. Grab a copy of Friends Gallery below. If you have any questions or comments,...
Read MoreElgg Sticky Footer
When you have a page which is short on content you’ll see that the footer is floating halfway up the page. If you want it to stay at the bottom of the browser window, follow the directions below. You can find many sticky footer methods in Google, this solution is based on the css by Steve Hatcher. Copy Files We need to get hold of two Elgg files and if you haven’t already made a plugin for your Elgg modifications, you can grab “myplugin” which is used in previous tutorials. Here we create a new Elgg plugin called Sticky. In Elgg root go to views/default/page/ and copy...
Read MoreElgg Mobilize
We are happy to announce the release of our Elgg mobile plugin, Mobilize, that will serve your mobile visitors an alternate layout for the small screen. Elgg Mobilize is for the Elgg 1.8 branch only. Mobilize detects the User Agent and takes over, when your visitors are using a mobile device. Your normal theme will still be used. If you use Elgg default custom index, it will be used as landing page, else the mobilize login page will be used. Features: Plugin Settings Define header color Display your own logo Friendspicker setting Teaser text setting Custom index support Walled garden...
Read MoreRiver addon 1.8
River Addon 1.8 introduces real-time (ajaxed) updates to the river, extends the Activity page with The Wire, and offers two or three column layout option. Add modules to your sidebars: Profile Icon, Friends, Friends Online, Latest Members, Info Ticker, Latest Groups, Your Groups, Tag Cloud, Owner Menu, Latest Photo Albums and Custom Content. Reorder the modules and display them in the left or right sidebar. Choose the order of filter menu tabs, “All, Mine, Friends”. All handled in the admin options panel. Check out the full feature list below. If you want to stay updated with our...
Read MoreGroup Publish 1.8
Our free Elgg plugin, Group Publish has got an update to Elgg version 1.8. Group Publish is a plugin that allows you to create groups without publishing them. Later, when the group owner is happy with his setup, he may choose to publish. If you have any questions or comments, please leave your responses in the comments below. Features Plugin setting Info box on Create new group page List of all unpublished groups in admin section Version Elgg 1.8 Download Group Publish...
Read MoreGroup Publish
This Elgg plugin will make the creation of groups more user friendly. When a new group is created, it is only visible to site administrators and group owner. The group owner can leisurely check out his group setup, description, profile photo and more without others viewing. Later, the group owner can decide whether the group should be made public through an information block on the group profile page, with options – edit, delete or publish. In elgg administration module is added the page ‘Group Administration’, available through a link in the left menu. A tabbed navigation...
Read MoreElgg River Addon 1.7
Adds random notes, friends and the users groups to the river sidebar. Users can set the number of groups to be shown in ‘Configure your tools’ page. This river plugin adds a little extra to your sidebar and hopefully you’ll find it useful. Upload to mod folder and activate or just grab whatever you can use. Features Elgg 1.7 Show random info notes from language files (replaces sitemessages) Recents members Friends / followers Your groups – set the number of groups to be displayed in the user settings. Download River addon...
Read MoreEditor account – 1.7.3 beta
A very simple but useful plugin for your Elgg site. Create a standard user account and make it editor. The editor account is not a hidden admin account but rather a regular account with limitations. From this account you can post standard stuff like messages, create blogs, create pages and post comments. Normal users can’t socialize with this account, make as friend, send messages or see the account profile. The account is hidden from newest members and memberlist. A note in the memberlist shows admin which user is editor. Download Editor Account 1.7
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