Warning About Facebook Style Themes for Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Thursday, 2 August 2012 04:31 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Friday, 3 August 2012 12:00

There are available at least 3 Facebook styles themes for Elgg 1.8 Such themes give a different look to your Elgg network, however it has some issues. In this article I will discuss about the issues with the Facebook style themes in Elgg 1.8

I’ve been testing three of the Facebook themes:

-Facebook Theme

-Cool Theme

-My Ultimate Cool Theme

During my test I found several bugs or errors that made the Elgg installation behave in a bad way.

A Warning About Using Izap Plugins for Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Saturday, 30 June 2012 10:48 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Sunday, 1 July 2012 12:00

A few days ago, someone started a thread in our own Elgg forum, announcing the release of their new plugin: Izap Disk Quota and other plugins as well. However, we strongly recommend staying away from those plugins. In this article, I will strongly recommend you to not to use those plugins in our servers.

After I saw that post, I was curious and went to the Elgg community to see the plugin Izap Disk Quota. For my surprise it was an odd plugin. First, the plugin needs a framework, called Izap Bridge. That’s pretty normal, however such framework is not available on the Elgg community and to get it you must register on another site.

After I finally got the framework, I installed it like you normally install a plugin in Elgg. However, when I tried to use it I couldn’t because I had to register my domain name in their site. In other words, I had to give the address of my Elgg network if I wanted to use the plugin Izap Disk Quota. That’s just plain wrong, because there’s no reason why a free plugin will need my domain name. I find it suspicious, and I believe it sends server information to the developer, which is wrong.

Warning: Naming Folders Inside the Mod Folder in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 April 2012 09:21 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Saturday, 21 April 2012 12:00

In this quick article, I will give a recommendation when you name or rename a folder inside the mod folder in Elgg 1.8

The Mod folder in Elgg is where you upload plugins or themes for Elgg. I was developing a plugin for Elgg when I had to rename a folder, for testing purposes. I typed just numbers like I regularly do in my desktop computer. For my surprise, it seems like Elgg doesn’t like folders to be named only with numbers.

I didn’t realized that until I saw this screen while I tried to access the Plugins page inside the Administration Dashboard:

Warning About Tidypics Beta for Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Thursday, 12 April 2012 09:47 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Sunday, 15 April 2012 12:00

This article is about Tidypics beta for Elgg 1.8, which is still in development. There are some things you should know if you want to use the beta version of this plugin on your Elgg network.

What’s Tidypics?

Tidypics is a picture sharing plugin for Elgg. It was the best plugin for photo albums for Elgg 1.7 Currently is still in development. Alternatives for picture sharing is the files plugin that comes bundled with Elgg 1.8

What To Do If You Get Deprecated Warnings in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Friday, 24 February 2012 07:15 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Monday, 27 February 2012 12:00

In this quick article, I will give you some recommendations if you are getting several deprecated warnings in Elgg 1.8.

I’ve been getting several emails from our Elgg users telling that they are getting some odd messages on their Elgg networks. Those odd messages were deprecated warnings. What are those? Those are messages that appear when you are using a plugin that was written or developed for older Elgg versions.

Elgg 1.8 was released a couple of months ago and some of the plugins are yet to be upgraded to the current Elgg release.