If this happens, then its a bug with the plugin and the best thing is to report this to the plugin author in the plugin listing page.

For time being, you have to options

1. Use your own sql as you mentioned
2. Use access_show_hidden_entities() before searching for existing users.

Thank you Webgalli. It looks like the issue appears to be with the browser's cache. I noticed that when I cleared my browser's cache after registering a test user this does not happen when attempting to register a another user with the same email id but different domain. I will ask the plugin author if he is aware of this.  

Oh ! I also forgot.

Another issue I have is that when I add a Profile Field, all the options under "Addition options" are unselectable....

Everything you've stated sounds like it can be done in profile manager itself.  You need to create profile types, then drag and drop the fields into the profile types they correspond to.  If they're in the 'default' type then they will show for anyone.

I cannot do any drag an drop in the Profile Manager plugin... am I missing something ?

What exactly do you want to change?

Because Profile manager does support the about me field.
You can just add a profile field, name it 'description' and put anything in the label you want as a title for your users to use in the field.

Elgg will understand that it is the 'about me' field, and will use the profile manger one in your profile pages.

if you would just simply want to delete it, make a plugindirectory, and override the view: mod/profile/views/profiel/details.php and remove the about me part in it (It's at the bottom of the file, it starts at line 77)

But unless you want to just remove it, use profile manager to edit it to your needs.

Really? Because Profile Manager allows you to create a lot of fields, even about me fields.

If you have imported the default profile fields (Elgg core profile fields) into the Profile Manager on the Profile Manager settings page, the "description" field is the "About Me" field. If you want to keep the other profile fields but not the "About me" field then delete this profile field again. You can add your own profile field with Profile Manager that allows also entering of longer texts (make this new profile field of type longtext). Or if you only want to change the wording of "About Me" to something else, keep the default "description" profile field and edit it (= enter the wording of your choice in the Label field).

You could try the 'share this' plugin, it has a 'email this' button.

Rodolfo Hernandez

Arvixe/Elgg Community Liaison

I would also like to know where to get the plugins like flexprofile and such.

Recent changes to Elgg in 1.7.x and of course 1.8.x broke the Form plugins. Flexprofile is similar to other plugins available for 1.8.x in any case. I have a version of some of the other Form plugin functionality migrated to 1.8.x for some of my clients but it is not documented and currently not publicly supported.