More and more people are connecting to the internet through their mobile devices and our Elgg users are looking for a solution to have their Elgg networks available on mobile devices. For that reason, in this article, I am going to give you a step by step guide on how to make your Elgg site mobile friendly:
1. We are going to use a plugin called Mobilize. Mobilize gives your mobile users a clean and lightweight layout to your network. Download the plugin here: Mobilize
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:
4. Then go to menu “Configure ->Plugins” and activate the plugin: Mobilize 2012.04.29
5. Now, let’s customize the mobile version of your network. Click on Mobilize Settings (view the first image) to change the display color, logo and header color:
6. Save it and that’s it! Now your Elgg network is also available for mobile devices:
Elgg Mobile Demo
Elgg Mobile Login Page Demo
This now concludes how to make your Elgg 1.8 site mobile friendly
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Hi.. This is an awesome article i have used it and its working fine. Just need to ask one question.
If i want to create a sub-domain as “m.my-domain.com” and by default i want to load this mobile version in that browser then what do i have to do..????
You could make a domain pointer so that “m.my-domain.com” points to “my-domain.com” while using the Mobilize plugin. Since mobilize will detect mobile devices, you don’t need to do more than that. I hope that helps.