All the static elements (for example menu items) are already multilingual. The only part that isn't is the user generated content (for example the contents of a blog post) view reply

I get either "We don't think [blah/blah/blah] is an absolute path for your data directory"(like I care what you think) or "We don't think [blah/blah/blah] is an absolute path for your data directory". Like... view reply

Have you checked out http://learn.elgg.org/en/stable/intro/install.html#troubleshooting view reply

We install Elgg sites almost monthly and always get them up and running within 5 minutes. Download the current Elgg version from https://elgg.org/about/download unzip in folder on webserver go to web url follow installation steps 5-10... view reply

You should be very careful in using functions beginning with an '_' as these function are considered private and can change at any time or be dropped at any time. What are you trying to achieve? If you're going to format an... view reply

Non-critical bugfix release 2.3.9 is now available for download

AFAIK the only reliable way to have the cron work is through the cron daemon. In my development setup i have the cron triggered every page request, and that gives the same unreliability you described. The crons only run on the minute... view reply

Have a look at the oEmbed plugin https://github.com/ColdTrick/oembed/releases It allows you users to simply paste in an url (like from YouTube, Imgur, Twitter, etc). If you don't wish to allow replacement of certain urls you can configure... view reply