Menu builder for custom menu items.

Add a new menu name 'footer' and create your links.

Note: this will override existing links so you'll have to recreate them.

+ Static for pages

Nikolai, thanks for the links. Will upload Menu Builder and test it.  Is Static the same as the built in pages for Elgg? Not sure I understand the difference.

Never mind about Static. I figured out it is different from the core pages in Elgg. Just need to tweak it to allow more than two options for access permissions.

The upgrade process for Elgg depends on how your current installation was set up.

If you installed Elgg using Composer, you should follow the official Composer-based upgrade guide. In general, the steps are:

• Back up your database and the entire project directory.

• Update your composer.json to require the newer Elgg version.

• Run composer update.

• After updating, log in to your site and run the upgrade script (usually via /upgrade).

If your installation was done by downloading and extracting the archive (non-Composer method), then the process is slightly different:

• Back up your database and all files (especially the data directory and elgg-config settings).

• Replace the core Elgg files with the new version, but don't overwrite your data directory or configuration files.

• Visit /upgrade in your browser to run the upgrade process.

Also, please note that Elgg has specific upgrade rules between versions:

• You can upgrade from any minor version to a higher minor version within the same major version.

• To move to the next major version, you must first be on the latest minor release of the previous major version.

• Once on certain baseline versions, you may upgrade further without stepping through every minor version.

In your case, this means you should not jump directly from 5.1.0 to the latest version.

Instead, you should:

• First upgrade from 5.1.0 to the latest 6.x release (for example, 6.3.7).

• Then upgrade to the next major version (for example, 7.0.4 or later stable release).

Make sure to create backups before and after each upgrade step.

Also, don't forget that 3rd-party plugins must be updated as well, ensuring compatibility with each Elgg version you install.

Finally, it is worth checking previously discussed topics (1, 2, 3), as many upgrade scenarios and issues have already been covered there.

Thanks

I have been able to uptate to 6.3.7 using composer....

I had to remove many apps and reinstall, to get rid of errors...

i have also sent an email regarding some custom plugins...

Best Wishes

Arindam

First of having 2 count queries shouldn't be that heavy on the database (even with 100's of concurrent users).

• $user->getGroups(['count' => true])
• elgg_count_entities(['relationship' => 'friend', 'relationship_guid' => $user->guid])

But if you want to you can listen to some events to manipulate the values:

• there is the join/leave group event 
• and the create/delete relationship event for the friends relationship

See https://learn.elgg.org/en/stable/guides/events-list.html#relationship-events

You can then store those values as metadata with the user.

If you then need a ajax view to (re)load the values look at https://learn.elgg.org/en/stable/guides/ajax.html

First make sure in the site settings RSS isn't disabled.

Then (as a logged in user) when you go to a page that supports RSS (like /blog/all, /activity) in the footer there is a link to the RSS feed.

So after searching some more I found an old plugin named au_subgroups but it seems to be very old and not managed anymore. Sounds like what I need so I may try to update it. I also found a plugin named Profile Manager which seems to almost do what I want but not quite so maybe I need to tweak it a bit also. In any case, thanks for bearing with me and any advice or other solutions great appreciated.

While there's no ready-made plugin, your problem can be solved with a custom plugin.

All you need to do is add a new "Category" field (input/text by default or input/tags for multi-categories) to the group creation form and organize pages with group sorting by category.

au_subgroups

Look at hypeGroups.

(Ismayil recently updated this plugin using AI, so give it a try, it might not work as intended.)

This plugin doesn't contain an interface for creating subgroups from the admin panel, so you'll also need a custom plugin to override the structure of your groups' subtypes.

Readme is very helpful.

Thanks for this will take a look.  Had to abandon the Profile Manager as I couldn't get it to show categories on the Groups page. Always showed the Elgg default group page no matter what I tried. hypeGroups looks interesting though.

Yes we share some variables between frontend and backend.

You could fix it in your theme by also extending the admin.css and changing the font color or background color just for the admin side.