How to Add Google Maps in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 November 2012 08:30 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Thursday, 8 November 2012 12:00

Google Maps is a great tool to share with people where you are or to find any location. Integration with elgg was not available until a couple of months ago. In this article I will give you a step by step guide on how to add Google Maps to profiles in Elgg 1.8

1. To add Google Maps to elgg profiles, we will use a tool called Google Maps Widget for elgg 1.8 You can download it here

2. After downloading the plugin, upload the plugin to the mod folder of your Elgg network to install it. If you don’t know how to do that, please read this article.

How to Display Profile Visitors in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 November 2012 08:30 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Wednesday, 7 November 2012 12:00

For security and private reasons, most of the people want to know who visited their profile and for that reason, in this article I will give a step by step guide on how to display profile visitors to your users in elgg 1.8

1. To display profile visitors, we will use a tool called Izap Profile Visitors for elgg 1.8 You can download it here

2. After downloading the plugin, upload the plugin to the mod folder of your Elgg network to install it. If you don’t know how to do that, please read this article.

How to Create Sub Groups in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 06:04 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Saturday, 3 November 2012 12:00

The Groups plugin is a nice elgg feature that comes with elgg by default. However there has been a need of having groups inside of the groups (sub groups) to make the groups plugin behave like a forum. In this article I will give you a step by step guide on how to create sub groups in elgg 1.8

1. Download the community plugin “AU Subgroups for Elgg 1.8”

2. After downloading the plugin, upload the plugin to the mod folder. If you don’t know how to do that, please read this article

3. Login on your Elgg network as an Administration and go to the Administration Dashboard:

How to Install a Language Pack in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 October 2012 03:40 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Tuesday, 23 October 2012 12:00

Using another display language for your elgg network can be a little bit difficult to do. Sometimes you can make a mistake that can break your site. For that reason in this article I will give a step by step guide on how to install a language pack in elgg 1.8

1. For the purpose of this guide, I will use the Spanish Language pack from the Elgg Community. You can find it here if you want to use it

2. After downloading the language pack, upload it to the main folder of your elgg network

3. Once the language pack is uploaded, extract it:

How to Fix MIME Type Problems in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 October 2012 07:27 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Thursday, 18 October 2012 12:00

There has been a big problem for a while involving recognizing MIME types in elgg 1.8 This is due to the fact that the latest elgg release quietly requires php 5.3 to properly recognize MIME types as pointed out for one of our elgg users in our forum. For that reason in this article I will show you to fix this issue.

By default, all of our Linux accounts use of PHP 5.2 as not all scripts are compatible with PHP 5.3, but since elgg relies on php 5.3, we are going to do the following solution, which was extracted from one of our articles written by Ryan.

Open the .htaccess file of your elgg installation, and of the top of the file, add this line:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php53 .php