http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:54:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/31/elgg-moves-forward/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/31/elgg-moves-forward/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:20:17 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=958 Elgg‘s development continues and appears to be progressing toward its next release—version 1.5. The svn revisions “odometer” has begun moving again this week after a brief break following the release of version 1.2. Elgg’s roadmap states that Curverrider plans to make major relases every six months with Version 1.5 due in February. Several target enhancements [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/31/elgg-moves-forward/feed/ 5 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/24/content-access-plugins-updated/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/24/content-access-plugins-updated/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:00:28 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=865 My plugins for controlling content access needed updating because Elgg 1.2 changed views/default/input/access.php; therefore, they no longer worked. I have made the appropriate changes to: nopublic nopublicwithfeeds allpublic In the near future I will also update higherwalls. The real news here may be how the plugins will be housed and supported. I uploaded the plugins [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/12/24/content-access-plugins-updated/feed/ 8 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/03/nopublic-plugins-for-elgg/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/03/nopublic-plugins-for-elgg/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:51:19 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=678 I have had several requests for the Higherwalls plugin with out the walled garden functionality. I decided to make the plugin with two flavors. The original version also overrode the owner’s block so that the links to create RSS and OpenDD feeds were deleted. I created another version that retains the ability to click on [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/03/nopublic-plugins-for-elgg/feed/ 4 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/01/google-gadgets-for-elgg/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/01/google-gadgets-for-elgg/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:50:01 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=647 Jonathan Rico of Peesco.com released a Google Gadgets widget for Elgg called xgadget. Google Gadgets are snippets of code that can be inserted into widgets to present a wide variety of content. They deliver weather forecasts, rss feeds, games, videos, and more–ranging from the practical to frivolous. Once xgadgets is installed, it appears in the [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/11/01/google-gadgets-for-elgg/feed/ 12 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/12/new-elgg-community-brings-new-plugins/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/12/new-elgg-community-brings-new-plugins/#comments Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:21:52 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=433 Elgg’s new support community has brought new contributions from Elgg’s Development team. Ben Werdmuller created a COPPA plugin. COPPA is the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act which prohibits website from collecting personal information from children under thirteen. This plugin inserts a check box into the registration page, requiring individuals to affirm that they are over [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/10/12/new-elgg-community-brings-new-plugins/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/29/artfolio-and-tinymce-plugins-revisited/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/29/artfolio-and-tinymce-plugins-revisited/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:17:22 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=375 Two Elgg plugins have been updated with new releases: Artfolio and Tinymce. Artfolio is a full featured image gallery with comments and ratings. Tinymce is Elgg’s wysiwyg editor which has been extended by a few parties. Artfolio 0.7 was overviewed in an earlier post. Frederique Hermanns has just released version 0.8. The biggest change is [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/29/artfolio-and-tinymce-plugins-revisited/feed/ 9 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/24/latest-elgg-10-plugins/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/24/latest-elgg-10-plugins/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:32:38 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=342 Another crop of Elgg 1.0 plugins has emerged adding to the list from my first and second posts about Elgg Plugins. Of note there is a new gallery plugin and a translation utility. Artfolio, by Fredrique Hermans of ANN-Designs, is an image gallery or portfolio. At version 0.7, it is in beta, but sports many [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/24/latest-elgg-10-plugins/feed/ 1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/11/more-elgg-10-plugins/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/11/more-elgg-10-plugins/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:11:19 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=315 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 [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/11/more-elgg-10-plugins/feed/ 20 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/05/great-elgg-10-plugins-trickling-in/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/05/great-elgg-10-plugins-trickling-in/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:29:14 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=292 Some early users were disappointed by the lack of features upon Elgg 1.0′s release. What they didn’t realize is that the new Elgg was designed as an extensible core engine to drive plugins and interact with other social platforms. Elgg 1.0 developers are starting to release plugins that extend the basic Elgg 1.0. What has [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/09/05/great-elgg-10-plugins-trickling-in/feed/ 18