ELGG Template :: Blog

Hi,

I am trying to figure out how templates work and I have found my way so far in modifying most of the elements of a template.

But there is still one thing that I can't understand:

Let's say we are not happy with the sidebar blocks (on the right of the template). We want to modify them. Then we go to the template default file and we find a {{sidebar}} tag which displays all the blocks in a certain order.

If I want to modify one special block. Then it's quite easy to find the file to be edited. I make a little search in the unit dir.

But if I want to modify, let's say, the order of the blocks (or if I want to add or delete a block), then I need to figure out where the {{sidebar}} part is defined. My problem is that I can't understand where and how these components - {{sidebar}} {{location}} ... - are defined.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks  in advance

Two days ago the widely known Webdesigner Wolfgang Bartelme (Austria) made his previous theme available under the creative commons licence.

I tried to port this wonderful and fresh Template to ELGG. There is still a lot work to do until it looks exactly like the original but its a start (I would tag it as beta version) . (See it in action at My Blog)

In the originial design the Date and the number of Comments is located at different places (have a look at this). I don't know how to do that in ELGG, or even if it's possible at the moment, because there is no different placeholder for these elements.

The build in search form also doesn't work and the formatting of the Comments (and the Commentform) still needs to be done (have a look at the detailpage).

Another problem are the images. I located them on my own server, not inside of ELGG because i don't know how to do that.

If you have any suggestions or want the code feel free to send me a mail.

We're looking for someone who could create 10-30 new Elgg templates to accompany a project we're working on. I am going under the assumption here that there will be no changes to the template system in the upcoming Elgg 0.7 (Dave? anyone?), and these templates should work with that new version.

Although these templates obviously have to be attractive, I really don't care how original they are - i.e., if you want to take some WordPress templates and "adapt" them to Elgg that's fine with us (going under the assumption, of course, that you don't copy those templates exactly, dat being compyright infringement, and, in the words of comedian Ron White, um, "Profiling is wrong!"...?! :-)

This is a paid job, the amount of pay to be based on your experience, the quality of your work and how many of these templates you could generate before our deadline. Please contact me at conkhead@conk.com for more details -- James Peters

 

Hello,I would like to change the default theme  for the homepage of Elgg.I have dug around in the database, and I think that I have a handle on what I need to do, but I am scared to take the plunge and start changing things. Also, I would like to change the content of the main page.  Does anyone have some pointers? ( I hope I did  not miss this in the manual)Cheers! 

Hello,

I am not sure I have understood the using of templates. If I haven't installed Elgg on my server, i.e. if I am just using the blog on-line, can I customize my blog? In the presentation it was said so bu I can't seem to find any way to do it now.

Thanks for your help!

 

In this post I noted that the appearance of the "blockquote" html command had changed. Sven's comment stated that the appearance is more appropriate for this command, but that there is no other html command that provides a text block indent. Sven suggested that a "shortcut class could be created in the stylesheet to avoid ppl having to write their own css ...".

I did a Google search and found "Indenting a Section of the Page". Could you add this code to Elgg's stylesheet so I and others have a function to indent text?

(Not sure if template is just about presentation...if so, someone please direct me to where I should post this)

Apologies for my ignorance, I'm just on a hosted system and don't have the programming smarts to answer this myself.

How tinkerable is the Profile?
-can I re-label fields?
-can I provide hints for fields?
-can I add/delete fields?
-is anyone else doing this and how are they dealing with interoperability issues?

Hello all,

I just made a stab at taking out the tables on my elgg site. got about half way there and couldn't figure out how to separate the menu items into list items. (just ended up with the menu as a list) I've since re-installed after the mess I made but I'm wondering when we can get a beta of the new css driven site. I'm a hack programmer at best, and I've realized I'm better waiting until the pros make the conversion...

great work as always,

cheers,

dave.

I love the new layout. I love to see people dropping the tables in favour of nice, clean CSS.

I don't know if this forwards the discussion or not, but this is a list of questions that I've been collecting as a reference for designing an ed-com website at my College, and plan to eventually include in my FAQ for instructors. This gives me another chance to try it out... I've never quite gotten comfortable with it, please feel free to ignore it or, even better, build upon it.

Who needs to understand the page?
-Who is the audience, are they techies? high school teachers? cyberswarm? students?

What do they need to be able to do?
-Do I want them to fill out a form? Download software? Join the community? Understand a new kind of interaction or philosophy? (particularly important for me as I want my visitors to be able to understand what we're calling the relationship economy, how anyone's success is built upon their ability to connect and share)

How much time will they spend trying to figure it out?
A student who will be assessed on their work and one who has been invited or even found the site by accident, are going to spend different amounts of time learning to navigate and trying to adapt to a new lexicon.

What is their 'screen'/'blog' literacy level?
I think that the section of the population that are using blogs is slowly spreading from the early adopters to the early/middle. If these are the target of the site, then no extra work need be done to introduce these concepts. For middle to late adopters, and those cynical about this type of technology (this can include administrators, students and instructors) the leap to transparency needs to be fairly narrow.

cheers,

dave.

I was also wondering if it'd be worth setting up a community to discuss the ELGG user interface in general - or is this it?

It doesn't really come under features.