I need help on how to change the amount of characters for wire posts. I want to allow more characters than 140. Appreciate any help!
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You must log in to post replies.This is a guide to do that for 1.7.x
http://blog.arvixe.com/how-to-increase-character-limit-of-the-wire-in-elgg/
Rodolfo Hernandez
Arvixe/Elgg Community Liaison
Apparently things have changed in 1.8.0.1. Is there updated instructions?
Taken from http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/I_don%27t_like_the_wording_of_something_in_Elgg._How_do_I_change_it%3F
"To find the string use grep or a text editor that provides searching through files to locate the string. (A good text editor for Windows is Notepad++) Let's say we want to change the string "Add friend" to "Make a new friend". The grep command to find this string would be
grep -r "Add friend" *
. Using Notepad++, you would use the "Find in files" command. You would search for the string, set the filter to *.php, set the directory to the base directory of Elgg, and make sure it searches all subdirectories. You might want to set it to be case sensitive also"Do this for '140' for thewire plugin and you should be set.
Thanks so much Cash!!
@Frank You need to change the values on these files:
mod\thewire\views\default\js\thewire.php
mod\thewire\views\default\forms\thewire\add.php
mod/thewire/views/default/thewire/forms/add.php
Rodolfo Hernandez
Arvixe/Elgg Community Liaison
Thanks Rodolfo!