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CRE8 Social: EasySocial fork for Joomla 5.4+ and 6+

Refactored EasySocial component: Installer and component work on Joomla 5.3+, 5.4+ and Joomla 6+. Further updates will be released and supported.

  • Installer and component work on Joomla 5.3.x, 5.4.x and 6.0
  • All themes: code corrected
  • Replaced old Joomla legacy calls
  • Modules adapted, tested and working
  • Plugins refactored and working
  • Frontend views and -features corrected and functional
  • Component can easily be installed over older versions
  • Dashboard, stream, file-uploads and -handling revised and functional
  • Various DB-queries adapted/rewritten
  • Refined inst.-routine now installs all plugins successfully in Joomla 6.0
  • Komento component included
  • Installed languages remain active

Extensions

Full Changelog

5.0.4 stable

18.4.2026
  • Feature

    Option added to hide the profile header in video item view

  • Feature

    Code adaption to allow loading user-media in Blog media manager

  • Bugfix

    Corrected avatar crop function

  • Bugfix

    ConverseKit: added table use-statement alias

5.0.3 stable

12.4.2026
  • Bugfix

    Links in invitation emails were incorrect

  • Bugfix

    Deprecation warning in Advanced Search for users fixed

  • Bugfix

    Missing use-statement added to /administrator/components/com_easysocial/includes/ad/ad.php

  • Bugfix

    Repost function in /tables/stream.php fixed

  • Bugfix

    Error during page creation on Joomla 6 corrected

  • Bugfix

    Photo module did not respect privacy settings

5.0.2 stable

15.3.2026
  • Revision

    Removed obsolete "ENGINE=MyISAM" from .sql-files

  • Bugfix

    Corrected URL-segmentation for pages, currently active menu item is now taken into account

  • Bugfix

    Corrected URL-segmentation for groups, currently active menu item is now taken into account

5.0.1 stable

12.3.2026
  • Feature

    Bunny CDN implementation v2 (additional webhooks etc.)

  • Feature

    Bunny Player v2

  • Feature

    Twitter → X: full rename in OAuth, UI, CSS, Icons

  • Feature

    + Config. cover image height for users, sites, groups and events

  • Feature

    Passkey (Webauth) passwordless Login implemented incl. configuration for the users

  • Feature

    Start date for events: additional column (sortable) in admin backend

  • Revision

    Implementation of FontAwesome 6.7.2 (old .eot and .woff-files removed)

  • Feature

    Notifications for new pages, groups, events, marketplace-entries

  • Revision

    Integrated Kunena user app refactored to work with Kunena v7.0.2

  • Revision

    Re-Branding CRE8 Social: logos, icons, etc. (left com_easysocial for the sake of compatibility)

  • Revision

    Adapted Foundry Library (FontAwesome, Twitter)

  • Improvement

    Events are loading from every entity

  • Improvement

    Installer refactored and changed appearance

  • Improvement

    Code refactored for file-field (PHP compatibility)

  • Improvement

    Changed versioning for pkg_toolbar

  • Bugfix

    Toolbar notifications showed only date, no content

  • Bugfix

    Corrected frontend passkey-generation

5.0.0 stable

21.2.2026
  • Feature

    Restoration of the module-manager in admin: no more api-calls to old si-server, unpublish-option

  • Feature

    Videos Mobile: Autoplay, User-Input (Pause) are now respected even if «Autoplay if in Viewport» is active, integrated player

  • Feature

    Debug for Videos (Option for Admin)

  • Revision

    Implemented own update-server/-logic

  • Revision

    Software Update Widget: corrected to work with new server

  • Improvement

    Extensions + component: versioning unified to be v5.0.0 → old modules/plugins can be detected easier

  • Improvement

    Obsolete update sources are removed

  • Improvement

    Blog in admin widget removed

  • Improvement

    Deprecated Photo-Resizer linking to SI removed

  • Bugfix

    Log: mail-warning in content-retrieval fixed (cron-hook)

  • Bugfix

    In some configurations/environment, user registrations failed, code corrections

  • Bugfix

    In some configurations/environment, user editing from the backend triggered an error

  • Bugfix

    With SEF-URLs in some languages, album-creation for groups/sites did not work

  • Bugfix

    Corrected logic error, which avoided albums-listing under pages/groups in certain settings (error was present since years)

1.4.4 stable

19.1.2026
  • Feature
    ConverseKit: Included Social-Login possibilities for Apple and Google
  • Feature

    Implementation of a master switch → activate/deactivate alerts

  • Feature

    Mails have a footer to directly load alerts-configuration or trigger master-switch

  • Revision

    Improved Foundry Library

  • Improvement

    Finder plugins → code-revision

  • Bugfix

    Fixed some deprecation warnings in PHP 8.2+

  • Bugfix

    16.1. Fixed further deprecation warnings

1.4.3 stable

30.12.2025
  • Feature

    Additional Player-Options Autoplay, Autoplay on Viewport, Autoplay Muted und Loop Video

  • Revision

    Improved view for portrait mode smartphone videos

  • Improvement

    Implemented additional checks for copying and batch-creating events, now ALL fields' contents are copied.

1.4.2 stable (Maintenance Release)

17.12.2025
  • Revision

    Some PHP 8.5 compatibility-improvements

  • Bugfix

    Installation process (for low-performance servers) reset due to problems encountered by several customers

  • Bugfix

    Fixed some deprecation notices

1.4.1 stable

10.12.2025
  • Feature

    Refined frontend copyfunction-logic: copied events are unpublished and editable

  • Revision

    ConverseKit: optimized architecture, replaced injected module-loading of sounds-library through referencing

  • Bugfix

    Fixed further deprecation notices

  • Bugfix

    Fixed toolbar-login with email-address instead of username

1.4 stable

7.12.2025
  • Feature

    Added copy-function for events in backend

  • Feature

    Batch-copy function (multiple events) added in backend

  • Feature

    Added copy-function for events in the frontend

  • Improvement

    Events: recurring events creation/update works now, all custom fields are written down correctly. This was never working in the original version!

  • Bugfix

    Fixed further deprecation notices

1.3 stable

3./6.12.2025
  • Feature

    Refactored ConverseKit Plugin to work in Joomla 5.3+, 5.4+ and 6+ and included it

  • Update

    Updated some library-files

  • Improvement

    All youtube-sharing links are accepted now (changed link-validation)

  • Bugfix

    Fixed Google auth deprecation notice

  • Bugfix

    Fixed further deprecation notices (dynamic property creation)

  • Bugfix
    Code error for toolbar module in backend fixed
  • Bugfix
    Doubling of the admin menu when additional “custom menu items” are active simultaneously has been fixed
  • Bugfix

    Corrected wrong path in the internal apps-installer

1.2 stable

30.11.2025
  • Bugfix
    EasySocial conversations load in the toolbar module in Joomla 6+

1.1 stable

29.11.2025
  • Improvement

    Included modernized, refactored Foundry-Library installing with the pkg_toolbar

  • Bugfix

    Fixed alert-error

1.0 stable

27.11.2025
  • Improvement
    Removed obsolete duplicated foundry-library from installer
  • Improvement
    Tested under Joomla 5.4.x and 6.0.x without backwards-compatibility plugin → code improvements
  • Test

    Migration from Joomla 5.4.x to 6.0.x without deactivating anything ES-related → WORKS! 🥳

0.6 RC

26.11.2025
  • Feature
    Refactored all Themes
  • Feature
    Refactored Toolbar
  • Improvement
    Replaced ALL old Joomla legacy calls
  • Test
    Plugins tested and code improvements

0.5 Beta

25.11.2025
  • Feature

    Admin-views and -modules adapted

  • Feature

    Event-, Group- Marketplace- and User-Apps and -Fields refactored and working

  • Feature
    Plugins refactored and working
  • Feature
    Modules adapted, tested and working
  • Feature
    Frontend views and -features corrected and functional
  • Update

    Full theme wireframe with all functional parts refactored

  • Improvement
    Various DB-queries adapted/rewritten
  • Test
    Component can easily be installed over older versions
  • Test

    Live and working on 3+ websites 🥳

  • BugFix

    Installer refactored to also install all Plugins as expected

0.3 Alpha

24.11.2025
  • Update

    Installer refactored to work on Joomla 5.4.x and 6.0.x

0.2 Alpha

23.11.2025
  • Update

    Component refactored to work on Joomla 6.0.x

0.1 Alpha

22.11.2025
  • Update

    Component refactored to work on Joomla 5.4.x

This project is the result of the GitHub discussion here: https://github.com/DeeEmm/easysocial

To do

  • Adapt additional apps
  • Implement own update server
  • Slight rebranding
  • List in Joomla Extensions directory
  • Remove obsolete custom ES db-layer