EasyBlog for Joomla 5.4+ and 6+
Refactored EasyBlog component: Installer and component work on Joomla 5.3+, Joomla 5.4+ and Joomla 6+. Further updates will be released. Extended version with additional Card-/Panel-Composer-Block starting from version 1.3+.
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Installer and component work on Joomla 5.3.x, 5.4.x and 6.0
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Theme uikit and complete theme wireframe refactored
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Replaced old Joomla legacy calls
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Modules adapted, tested and working
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Plugins refactored and working
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Foundry-library and -plugin: codebase reviewed/corrected, both working
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Mediamanager refactored an tested on J5.4 and 6.0
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Frontend views and -features corrected and functional
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Component can easily be installed over older versions
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Quickpost feature corrected, Composer, Dashboard etc. fully functional
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Various DB-queries adapted/rewritten
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Refined inst.-routine now installs all plugins successfully in Joomla 6.0
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WebP Support incl. quality-setting
Full Changelog
7.1.0 stable
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Feature
TRANSLATIONS: Replaced dead SI-URLs with GitHub raw downloads.xml endpoints and real Weblate-stats
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Feature
Reset-Button in composer blocks to pragmatically empty contents
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Feature
Klipy integration: Second Gif-provider Klipy integrated, incl. new Block
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Feature
NEW Slider module: 5 layouts and a lot of options
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Feature
Toolbar module search now respects current language on multilingual sites
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Feature
Installer updates all modules core files automatically
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Feature
Reverse-migrator/exporter for blog posts to joomla articles
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Improvement
Code cleanup ~35+ occurrences of jimport() calls removed
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Improvement
EasyBlog Crawler: change in admin/includes/crawler/crawler.php to also load protected websites
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Improvement
Joomla 6+ Filesystem compatibility compatibility.php added / native php functions
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Improvement
FontAwesome 6 further improvements, renamed some remaining FA5 instances
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Change
K2 migrator and K2-support removed
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Bugfix
Fix load-more button in media manager
7.0.6 stable
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Feature
Composer: cover-image is displaying above content (not only in preview mode)
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Feature
Drag/crop: if "Crop post cover" option in "Layout" is active, the focal point can be set in composer
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Feature
Joomla dark mode: font-color in backend changed and now readable (not white on gray anymore)
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Improvement
Instagram-links are sanitized automatically, no matter what parameters are included
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Improvement
Spotify-links are sanitized automatically, no matter what parameters are included
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Improvement
Toolbar-module: Social adapter cleaned, passkey-login works now
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Improvement
Foundry library: adapted, code-improvements
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Improvement
Module installer doesn't create new instances but updates existing ones, clean-up of multiplied modules
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Bugfix
Added missing use-statement in view myblog
7.0.5 stable
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Feature
Rebranding CRE8 Blog
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Improvement
YouTube-Links are always accepted, no matter what additional parameters they contain
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Improvement
Schema.org: Image-URLs after domain-migration are adjusted/set correctly
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Improvement
Schema.org: date format corrected
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Improvement
Unnecessary font files removed
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Improvement
yootheme child-templates are detected → CSS-/uikit-settings are correctly taken into account
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Improvement
Changed from Twitter to X throughout the whole component
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Bugfix
EasySocial – getGroups ignored listing_create_button setting
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Bugfix
OAuth model – getSystemClients query bug / invalid SQL syntax
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Bugfix
Template-Overrides were not taken into account
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Bugfix
Code optimization
7.0.4 stable
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Feature
YouTube covers for blog posts are now also displayed in social stream items
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Improvement
YouTube covers are now also displayed in the featured slider (admin/includes/themes/helpers/featured.php)
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Bugfix
MP3 upload syntax error fixed (composer/media/panels/audio.php)
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Bugfix
Missing code line for template ID via URL call added
7.0.3 stable
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Feature
Media validation: walks all composer blocks and rejects if any image, video, gallery, thumbnails, etc. is empty, incl. admin setting
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Feature
Association validation: rejects sitewide posts (no team/page/group) that have no association. Private posts are exempt, incl. admin setting
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Feature
Visibility: on publish, requires to pick a visibility value in the privacy dropdown when the privacy field is shown (admin-setting)
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Feature
Error UX – scroll & highlight: finds failing blocks, adds an error CSS border to their placeholders, and scrolls to the first one.
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Feature
«See the full list» button: added a collapsible expand button above the associates search in the Author panel
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Feature
Social adapter – all Photos from the user (CRE8 Social v5.0.4) in Media Manager
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Feature
Social Media manager – Load more functionality
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Feature
Media manager grid – always on
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Feature
Implemented FontAwesome v6
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Feature
Source view in composer text blocks and headings
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Feature
Composer block table rows/columns deletion button/functionality
7.0.2 stable
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Feature
Support webp-format, incl. quality-setting
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Feature
H1 heading can be deactivated in composer through admin (new setting)
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Bugfix
Migrated legacy articles could not be changed/saved.
7.0.1 stable
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Improvement
Improved Joomla article migrator: fulltext and introtext were not migrated due to missing legacy class
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Improvement
Brought back first text block in composer which was removed to improve MariaDB 11.4+ compatibility
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Bugfix
Feed Importer corrected (missing factory use-statement)
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Bugfix
Corrected template switcher
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Bugfix
Fixed pagebreak-plugin for Joomla 6+
7.0.0 stable
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Feature
Introduces own update-servers/-system, Joomla Standard
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Improvement
Remove obsolete update-sites/-sources
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Improvement
Remove Blog- and Updates-Widgets from Admin-Dashboard
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Change
Continue versioning with 7.0.0, adapt Modules-, Plugins- and Library-versioning
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Bugfix
Further elmination of deprecation warnings
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Bugfix
Optimization of the frontpage-magazine-view
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Bugfix
Corrected an issue with the retrieval of the latest published posts on the site
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Bugfix
Backwards compatibility fix: Joomla field class alias
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Bugfix
Field for unpublishing contained a date entry on composer load
1.3.2 stable (Maintenance Release)
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Improvement
Optimized foundry library
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Improvement
Added compatibility-layer for MariaDB 11.4+ as SQL strict mode is used by default (NULL-values)
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Improvement
Corrected/optimized maintenance scripts for migrations from older EB-versions
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Bugfix
Lots of files (∼100): code optimization for PHP8.3+
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Bugfix
Elmination of numerous deprecation warnings
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BugfixPosts from EasySocial groups weren't loading sometimes (views.php original file buggy, missing logic for undetermined/missing source_type field)
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Bugfix
Optimized MapModule, corrected errors in the original code
1.3.1 stable (Maintenance Release)
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Verbesserung
Optimized installer script
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Bugfix
Fixed TeamBlogs error
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Bugfix
JAccess error (deprecated) fixed
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Bugfix
Fixed uikit template reactions reference error
1.3 stable
1.2 stable
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BugfixEasySocial conversations load in the toolbar module in Joomla 6+
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BugfixCode error for toolbar module in backend fixed
1.1 stable
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Improvement
Code optimization, corrected deprecation notices under PHP 8.3+
1.0 stable
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ImprovementRemoved obsolete duplicated foundry-library from installer
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ImprovementTested under Joomla 5.4.x and 6.0.x without backwards-compatibility plugin → code improvements
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Test
Migration from Joomla 5.4.x to 6.0.x without deactivating anything EB-related → WORKS! 🥳
0.6 RC
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FeatureRefactored all Themes
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FeatureRefactored Toolbar
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ImprovementReplaced ALL old Joomla legacy calls
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TestPlugins tested and code improvements
0.5 Beta
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Feature
Foundry-library and -plugin: codebase reviewed/corrected, both working
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FeatureQuickpost feature corrected, Composer, Dashboard etc. fully functional
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FeatureMediamanager refactored an tested on J5.4 and 6.0
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FeaturePlugins refactored and working
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FeatureModules adapted, tested and working
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FeatureFrontend views and -features corrected and functional
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UpdateFull theme wireframe refactored
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ImprovementVarious DB-queries adapted/rewritten
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TestComponent can easily be installed over older versions
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Test
Live and working on 5+ websites 🥳
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BugFix
Installer refactored to also install all Plugins as expected
0.4 Alpha
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Update
Installer refactored to work on Joomla 6.0.x
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UpdateFull theme uikit refactored
0.3 Alpha
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Update
Installer refactored to work on Joomla 5.4.x
0.2 Alpha
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Update
Component refactored to work on Joomla 6.0.x
0.1 Alpha
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Update
Component refactored to work on Joomla 5.4.x
This project is the result of the GitHub discussion here: https://github.com/DeeEmm/easyblog/issues/15
To do
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Adapt apps
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Implement new blocks
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Implement own update server
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Slight rebranding
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List in Joomla Extensions directory
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Remove obsolete custom EB db-layer


