How to Get Detailed Statistics of Your Elgg Network

Last Updated on Friday, 18 January 2013 12:00 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Friday, 18 January 2013 12:00

Keeping track of the page views that your elgg network is very important. Elgg by default has a very basic statistics page, which is good but not the best. In this article I will give you a step by step guide on how to get detailed statistics of your elgg network, in elgg 1.8

1. Download the community plugin “Advanced Statistics for Elgg 1.8” here

How to Make Static Profiles in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Friday, 5 October 2012 01:44 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:00

On a previous post I talked about how to make static profiles in elgg 1.7 However, it involved editing code and it wasn’t a clean solution. For that reason I decided to develop a solution, without having to edit existing code or write a new one. In this article I will give you a step by step guide on how to create static profiles in Elgg 1.8

1. First,  log into your elgg network as an Admin and go to the Administration Dashboard. Then go to Menu “Configure->Appearance->Default Widgets”:

How to Send Welcome Messages to New Users in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Monday, 3 September 2012 12:05 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Friday, 14 September 2012 12:00

In this article I will give a step by step guide on how to send welcome messages to new users in elgg 1.8

1. To greet new users, we will use a tool called Welcome Message 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.

3. After that, please sign in as an Administration and go to the Administration Dashboard: