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
IMPORTANT
Please do not click the update button in the backend before version 7.0.0, as our own update servers had not yet been implemented at that time. Please ignore the update notice; the component is fully functional.
Full Changelog
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 areĀ 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 ā 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 ā getGroups ignored listing_create_button setting
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Bugfix
OAuth model ā 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 ā 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 ā all Photos from the user (CRE8 Social v5.0.4) in Media Manager
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Feature
Social Media manager ā Load more functionality
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Feature
Media manager grid ā 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 (ā¼100): 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 ā WORKS! š„³
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 š„³
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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





