How to Allow Members to Delete Their Own Accounts in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 April 2012 11:03 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Friday, 27 April 2012 12:00

Social networking is all about users’ content ownership. Nowadays it is necessary to allow users to delete all of their personal information from any social network. For that reason, I will give a step by step guide on how to allow your members to delete their own accounts in Elgg 1.8

1. First, we will download a plugin called Member Selfdelete for Elgg 1.8 (you must have Elgg 1.8 for this) which can be downloaded here.

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:

Dolphin 7 Anonymous Mode – What It Is and Why You Need It

Last Updated on Friday, 14 October 2011 12:40 Written by Mscott Saturday, 15 October 2011 12:00

Hello and welcome! Today’s blog will focus on one very important setting in Dolphin 7. This setting is “Anonymous Mode” and it is critical to your member’s privacy that you turn it on.

We will begin by logging in to the Dolphin admin area. Next select “Advanced Settings” under the “Settings” sub-menu. Now click the “Profiles” tab. You will see the 7^th option from the top labeled “Anonymous mode (no contact information)”. To turn it on place a check mark beside it and click “Save” at the bottom of the screen.

Understanding the Dolphin 7 Member Moderation Options

Last Updated on Monday, 10 October 2011 02:15 Written by Mscott Tuesday, 11 October 2011 12:00

Hello and welcome! Today I am going to explain the somewhat cryptic Dolphin 7 member moderation options. To get to these options, login to your Dolphin 7 admin menu and click “Moderation Settings” under the “Settings” section on the left side menu.

Adding Membership Levels in Dolphin 7

Last Updated on Saturday, 24 September 2011 11:23 Written by Mscott Wednesday, 28 September 2011 07:45

In today’s blog I’ll show you how to create a custom membership levels for your Dolphin 7 based website. Dolphin comes with three default membership levels, they are:

Non-member – This level is self explanatory. It is anyone who hasn’t joined the site.

Standard – This is the basic level for anyone who signs up.

Promotion – This is a special membership you can use if you plan on adding paid membership types. If you enable it when a new member joins they are added to this type by default and allowed to explore the site for 7 days. At the end of the 7 days they are automatically changed to a standard member.

Today we’re going to create a new membership type called “Super Member”. We could say it’s for VIP members or paying members. First let’s log in to our Dolphin admin and go to “Membership Levels” under the “settings” heading on the left sidebar.