No tips here. It worked in all of our testing. Did you try doing this with non-bundled plugins turned off? Perhaps one of them is interferring with the default widgets creation? Any messages in your error log?

the only real way to test it is by creating a dummy user and them login with that account

otherwise, on the surface it all looks like it is working

r u using admin to create new user or user registers themselves ?

users registered themselves, and i created a dummy account too

I tried same tests.. same results ;-( no widgets !
Not sure if I'm doiing something wrong or...

I am not alone, finally. Others too facing this issue. :)

Someone else is going to have to debug this. It has worked on every install that I have tried it on.

i believe the issue is NOT with fresh install of elgg 1.8.1, but rather from upgrades from 1.8.0.1

im getting new users, but sadly no default widgets

help! i ran out of aspirins!

this is a very nice plugin, but it no works!

i wonder if placement of the plugin list will affect it

@Cash I previouly told you on test site that default widgets for profile are working but dashboard default widgets are not working