He hasn't added it yet - give him a chance to do it.

jededitor, regarding putting the spotlight at the top of the page. I did it too, but for that what I did is create a copy of the views/default/page_elements/header_contents.php and in that file I simply included the spotlight code so that it is present in the top of the page.

I wonder though, if there's a more elegant way of doing it? Because this way, I'm not really extending any view, css or whatever but rather I'm basing the plugin on elgg's default header_contents.php or rather my theme's header_contents.php - is that a good idea? is there a better way of doing that?

jededitor, regarding putting the spotlight at the top of the page. I did it too, but for that what I did is create a copy of the views/default/page_elements/header_contents.php and in that file I simply included the spotlight code so that it is present in the top of the page.

I wonder though, if there's a more elegant way of doing it? Because this way, I'm not really extending any view, css or whatever but rather I'm basing the plugin on elgg's default header_contents.php or rather my theme's header_contents.php - is that a good idea? is there a better way of doing that?

He hasn't added it yet - give him a chance to do it.

jededitor, regarding putting the spotlight at the top of the page. I did it too, but for that what I did is create a copy of the views/default/page_elements/header_contents.php and in that file I simply included the spotlight code so that it is present in the top of the page.

I wonder though, if there's a more elegant way of doing it? Because this way, I'm not really extending any view, css or whatever but rather I'm basing the plugin on elgg's default header_contents.php or rather my theme's header_contents.php - is that a good idea? is there a better way of doing that?

jededitor, regarding putting the spotlight at the top of the page. I did it too, but for that what I did is create a copy of the views/default/page_elements/header_contents.php and in that file I simply included the spotlight code so that it is present in the top of the page.

I wonder though, if there's a more elegant way of doing it? Because this way, I'm not really extending any view, css or whatever but rather I'm basing the plugin on elgg's default header_contents.php or rather my theme's header_contents.php - is that a good idea? is there a better way of doing that?

He hasn't added it yet - give him a chance to do it.

jededitor, regarding putting the spotlight at the top of the page. I did it too, but for that what I did is create a copy of the views/default/page_elements/header_contents.php and in that file I simply included the spotlight code so that it is present in the top of the page.

I wonder though, if there's a more elegant way of doing it? Because this way, I'm not really extending any view, css or whatever but rather I'm basing the plugin on elgg's default header_contents.php or rather my theme's header_contents.php - is that a good idea? is there a better way of doing that?

jededitor, regarding putting the spotlight at the top of the page. I did it too, but for that what I did is create a copy of the views/default/page_elements/header_contents.php and in that file I simply included the spotlight code so that it is present in the top of the page.

I wonder though, if there's a more elegant way of doing it? Because this way, I'm not really extending any view, css or whatever but rather I'm basing the plugin on elgg's default header_contents.php or rather my theme's header_contents.php - is that a good idea? is there a better way of doing that?

i tried it..and now no members were being shown...?

This advice was for Elgg 1.5-1.6. In Elgg 1.7 you need to change that line to:

$newest_members = elgg_get_entities(array('types' => 'user', 'limit' => 10));

That worked.

Thanks a lot Cash.