A few more plugins have become available since my last post on Elgg plugins: a Youtube widget for profiles and dashboards, a secure login plugin that employs https logins for additional security, and a contact plugin.
Robert Gay of Windango, Inc created the YouTube widget. Simply download and upack the file and upload it to the /mod folder of your Elgg installation.
Once you have activated it in Tools Administration, a YouTube widget appears in the Widget Gallery when one edits their profile or dashboard. Once the widget has been dragged and dropped into one of the Widget columns and saved, users can enter the url of their favorite YouTube video by pressing the edit button. As with core widgets, there are the usual access options.
It’s simple and works out-of-the-box requiring no configuration–unless you want to change the text in the edit interface (as I have done above). Edit mod/contact/languages/en.php
Individuals that need greater security with logins can install Duncan Entwisle’s https_login plugin. Install as you would any plugin. Once enabled, it will force users into an encrypted SSL connection protecting passwords. You will have to have an SSL certificate in place, or users will get warning messages cautioning them about the site. For most cases the least expensive certificates should be adequate and can be had for about $15 US.
You can create a Contact Page that appears as a Tool for users using Tim Timalsina’s Contact plugin. Download, unpack, upload, activate.This one has one more step. Once you have enabled Contact, you must click more info:
Enter your contact email address in the field. It took me a couple tries to figure this out as this is the first plugin that offered configuration options from the Administration Interface. You now have the new menu option:
This option delivers you to a simple Contact page allowing users to send a message to
It works fine, although I get html markup in my email notifications. That may be due to my server configuration. It is less important as it is coming to me rather than a user.
More plugins are rolling in. I’ll continue testing them and elaborating on their configuration.
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Im new to Elgg, got this new project at http://www.josenian.com , and its great I get to find this page. I thought elgg is so bare there’s not much plugin available.
I only needed a few plugins for my site – video embedding, shoutbox, search users to add to profile and RSS feeds plugin.
Will check back to see if there are some cool plugins I could use. Thanks
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Tinymce advanced should take care of your video embedding needs.
Glad this helps! Keep checking back. I will post more as plugins become available.
Later today, I will release another theme as well!
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Thank you for your post it is valuable information for me
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Hi,
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Hi, thank you for the information.. But why nobody fix LDAP Plugin, I need it soon, but it wont works well until now.
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@ardhanareshwari I have nothing to do with the LDAP plugin, nor any of the ones I have mentioned for that matter.. Consider inquiring at the Elgg Developers Google Group
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How did you edit the text for the youtube widget. I made a modification in language and it stopped my whole site from working
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I made changes to lines 10 and 11 after =>. Make sure you have all your tags correct. You need the single quote and comma at the end of the line. It’s pretty straight forward:
1 < ?php
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3 $english = array(
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5 /**
6 * youtube widget details
7 */
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10 'youtube:id' => ‘Enter your youtube video url.’,
11 ‘youtube:whatisid’ => ‘Go to your favorite YouTube Video, copy, and paste the URL–You don\’t need the embed code.’,
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13 /**
14 * youtube widget river
15 **/
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17 //generic terms to use
18 ‘youtube:river:created’ => “%s added the youtube widget.”,
19 ‘youtube:river:updated’ => “%s updated their youtube widget.”,
20 ‘youtube:river:delete’ => “%s removed their youtube widget.”,
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23 );
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25 add_translation(“en”,$english);
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Aha! it was the don\’t that got me! Color me embarrassed! Thanks for your help!
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in registration form i register different names and email ids (valid)for registration. its register but in login form its showing not conformed why. in elgg tables user_entity code column is empty .
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I am not an Elgg developer, and your question does not really pertain to this post. I would recommend asking this in one of Elgg’s Google Groups.
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thank you
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wow — i installed the “contact” plugin and my site went crazy — had ?????? all over the place that looked like this
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any idea why? anyone?
thanks
with my ftp i deleted the plugin folder and my site now back to normal
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When did it do this? After you activated it? Did you immediately enter your contact email address upon activation?
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I am looking for the youtube plugin that you described in this post can cannot find it. (I clicked on the link and got a page not found.) Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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It appears that the link has changed. I will find it and put it on my server so that we will not have this problem again. I’m at a conference right now, but I will try to get it this evening.
Sorry for the problem!
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I am looking for the plugin, too.
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I should have specified that I am looking for the YouTube plugin. Also, I wouldn’t mind having the contact form plugin. That link appears to have changed as well. Thanks.
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Okay I am back from the conference. I’ll get time this afternoon to hunt versions of these down and put them up–sorry for the delay.
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It has been deleted from the google groups. I cannot find it on this hard drive, and I have had no luck with searches. I’ll keep looking–I haven’t forgotten!
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