Original ticket http://trac.elgg.org/ticket/1391 on 39917955-12-18 by trac user alivin70, assigned to cash.

Elgg version: 1.6

Sometimes widget are not referred to users but to other entities.

An example is che custom_index_widgets plugin, where widgets should be referred to a site entity, not to the admin.

I propose to change the function add_widget() in engine/lib/widget.php
at line 232 change:

if ($user = get_user($user_guid)) {

with

if ($user = get_entity($user_guid)) {

In my knowledge that's the only point where the $user_guid is cheked to by the guid of a ElggUser instance.

I made that change and everything works as before.

In a later clean up of the code the word "user" can be removed in order to make the code clearer.