One feature I didn’t see when testing beta Elgg 1.5 is the admin’s ability to set default widgets in both user profiles and dashboards. These tools, included in the Elgg 1.5 “full” package. Elgg adopters have asked for this feature since the initial release and there have been plugins that provided such functionality, but had to be configured by code.
The new functionality gives admins the ability to place default widgets in one of three columns in a format nearly identical to that the users see when they configure their widgets.
This feature allows administrators to provide new visitors with configured profiles and dashboards rather than the blank pages that many thought were confusing and unfriendly to new users.
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Tags: default widgets, Elgg, elgg 1.5
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Did you mention in your coverage of Elgg 1.5 that custom themes are broken? They also have not provided a way to upgrade your 0.9 installation to the current version. I’m done with Elgg and Curverider. They have no clue how to develop Open Source software.
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Having worked with many open source projects, I’d expect addons to “break” as the code changes. I’d expect it to be even more likely when software is relatively young and moving very quickly.
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@Jonathan Kemp – here are full, step by step, instructions on how to migrate your custom themes: http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Upgrading_themes and here is a script to help migrate from 0.9 -> 1.5 http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/dramirez/read/40402/migration-tool-10
@steve – sorry for hijacking your post.
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No worries. You responded to a question posed.
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Hi Dave, I was able to figure out how to use those instructions to upgrade my theme. But I also happen to know CSS/HTML as well as PHP. How many other site owners will be able to do this on their own?
Did you guys let theme developers know before hand themes would be broken in 1.5? That way the ones that wanted to could have made their themes compatible before or about the same time as the release.
Plus, once I saw that themes were broken, I wondered what else had been changed that no longer worked.
I have seen the migrate tool you are talking about and I have no idea how to use it. Also it’s developed by a third party. Why hasn’t Elgg provided a solution for this?
I see just now that there is a new one by codebrane here. http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/codebrane/read/44510/migration-09-gt-15-plugin-for-all-data I will try that one and I hope it will work.
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My motto “Life is a Never Ending Upgrade…”.
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Hi,
I am working in Mac OS X with Firefox, and this default widget plugin doesn’t work as the older plugin for Elgg 1.2 onmy computer.
Did someone experience the same problem ?
Thx to Curverider for this release !
Regards
Julien
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I use default widget but it shows every widget twice for all new users.
what should i do?
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