Elgg scalability

“I am creating an Elgg network and I am expecting 10 million users, can it cope?” This question gets asked in one form or another almost every week, but I believe this is the wrong question to be asking. Perhaps the more pertinent scalability question is: “I am creating an Elgg network, how do I […]

Marcus Povey

“I am creating an Elgg network and I am expecting 10 million users, can it cope?” This question gets asked in one form or another almost every week, but I believe this is the wrong question to be asking. Perhaps the more pertinent scalability question is: “I am creating an Elgg network, how do I […]

Its a question of time

Sometimes things need to be done without user interaction – for example, database optimisation or log rotation. For this, Elgg has a cron endpoint. Cron is a unix tool which executes commands at a specific time of day (other operating systems have similar tools). This keys off a file called a crontab – an example […]

Marcus Povey

Sometimes things need to be done without user interaction – for example, database optimisation or log rotation. For this, Elgg has a cron endpoint. Cron is a unix tool which executes commands at a specific time of day (other operating systems have similar tools). This keys off a file called a crontab – an example […]

All about themes

Themes for Elgg are both extremely easy to develop and incredibly powerful. Using themes you can completely change how an Elgg install looks and feels (and even behaves). Since there has been a fair amount of discussion of themes on the groups, I thought it would be a good idea to write a brief post […]

Marcus Povey

Themes for Elgg are both extremely easy to develop and incredibly powerful. Using themes you can completely change how an Elgg install looks and feels (and even behaves). Since there has been a fair amount of discussion of themes on the groups, I thought it would be a good idea to write a brief post […]