The Curverider team continues to update Elgg at a furious pace with nearly 360 commits since early January. It appears Elgg 1.5 will arrive as promised this month. I’ve been watching the progress unfold with an SVN trunk installation (NOT recommended for production!). I have also been given a preview of Elgg 1.5. If I were to try to cover all the changes that I have observed, I’d never get this post out, so I’ll focus on notifications, external pages and the frontpage.
One of the promised improvements on the Elgg 1.5 roadmap is “Notification hooks and delivery.” This change has probably been lurking under my nose for a little while, because I haven’t been checking into the Settings much lately. When I did, I saw some new options.
We now see options for configure tools, notifications, and group notification. Configure tools will give users an interface to configure extensions added by admins. Click on notifications and you get a number of options.
You now have a variety of options for email notifications when actions are performed on your content, the content of friends, or any collections of friends. In addition, the Group Notification allows you to make similar settings on notifications regarding any groups you belong to. Note all the white space to the right of email notification icons. There appear to be more options on the way.
There is still more space. What else could be coming?
Next is an unexpected little gem, External Pages. Curverider has long had About, TOS, and Privacy links on their site’s footer–something users have long wanted. They have delivered with an External Pages plugin. Once enabled, the links appear in the site’s footer as does an External pages option in the left side menu in the Administrative interface.
Note the tabs highlighted above. Click on any of these and you have a convenient text editor to add whatever content you need to any of these pages. Not mentioned is the Front page panel. That puzzled me briefly until I installed the Custom Index plugin.The two fields allow you to enter text into the right and left hand panes without delving into source code.
I imagine this external page editor could be applied to any number of other uses in Elgg in the future.
This is a round up of a few of the many enhancements we can look forward to with the release of Elgg 1.5. There are, of course, many more, and I hope to have more posts outlining new features in the near term.
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Tags: Elgg, elgg1.5, external pages, notifications
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Wow, awesome! I really love the way Elgg is headed. Can’t wait until 1.5
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Looks absolutely great! Very excited for Elgg right now
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looks like the 1.5 has a lot more to be discovered… actually now i dont have elgg installed in my server…coz i’m waiting for the best(1.5) release..
having an eye on the twitter, one day steve would announce the release of 1.5
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I’m just hoping that the upgrade will be smooth. A lot of exciting features – I cannot wait.
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This puts the whole project back on the map for me. I can’t wait for 1.5 to come out. Sounds like Curverider listened to the people and delivered big time! Well … we’ll have to see about “delivery” but they’ve sure done a lot to get my mouth watering.
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Agreed. It seems that Curverider is finally in tune with the potential of their product, and is catering to a wider audience of developers, designers and users.
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Yes, there have been numerous small and large enhancements that add up to a much enhanced platform. I will try to get another blog post written today outlining some more changes.
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Man, this is great.. you guys keep on coming up with lots of goodies
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oooooohh ;- )
“when I grow up..
I want to become an Elgg Consultant” !
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Hehehehe…indeed!
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Thank you for your help with the frontpage. I was wondering why it was not showing up for me.
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I have Custom_index installed and it is working but nothing I edit with the ExternalPages Frontpage is populating there. Not quite sure what I am doing wrong but, the client being able to edit their own front page easily this way is imperative for my project – otherwise I will have to use Drupal’s OG’s instead. Any help?
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Okay – when in doubt revert to original documents!! I had installed a custom_index which was not the original custom_index and which was not tied to the ExternalPage/Frontpage. All is working well now!
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how to add new tab through external pages ?
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