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So you had this plugin that you were using on your site and you decided to disable it. If you disable it, everyone who had a widget from the plugin now sees a widget on their profile with an error message showing. What to do?

This plugin adds an Admin option for removing the widgets before disabling the plugin. The admin can select the widget name from a drop down list and is told how many widgets were removed after it is finished. This plugin uses Elgg core calls to do this so there shouldn't be any side effects, but it is always a good idea to backup your database when trying a new plugin. Even better, try this out on a test site.

This removes widgets from both the profile and dashboard at the same time.

Remember, the plugin has to be enabled for you to remove the widget(s) that it provides.

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Patrick Widen

Thank you! You've solved a big problem with Elgg :)

I appreciate the work you've done on this.

Patrick Widen 315 days ago

antifmradio

cash

GREAT work. Many have been waiting for something like this

antifmradio 315 days ago

ash

great man

ash 315 days ago

prem

Great pluggin Cash, Works fine.

A question. I'v removed the status widget(in elgg 1.2) with your plug in. But in the pg/admin/statistics page it shows item:object:status=30. Means the status entries are not removed from the database. Could you modify this plugin so as to remove the orphaned entries also from the dtabase when a plugin is disabled? Or could you suggest another method to remove these data?

thank you.

prem 315 days ago

Kettyking

Dear Cash,

I want a plugin ,ie admin can edit dashboard widgets for existing users. Is it possible with your existing plugin ? Any other plugin is availabe for that? Does your plugin can changed in my need? pls help me..

Kettyking 315 days ago

Cash

@prem - status updates are owned by the user not by the widget so that is a different problem.

@Kettyking - different problem

Cash 314 days ago

Rob

@ Cash - Top drawer idea, should solve the headache we all had when deleting widgets / plugins, it's much appreciated! :)

P.S. I am going to ask the creator of Draggable Widgets, if his plugin can be adapted to a new variant, to enable the dragging of all our Admin Tools, as when you have dozens of plugins, it can take many hours to re organise them. Then I think the admin side of things is nailed.

Regards,

Rob 312 days ago