By Angelo Luidens on Sunday, 20 September 2015
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Hi,

Can I make adjustments to a theme or create a new one to suit our specific needs?

Those provided do not meet all our requirements.

Thank you in advance for your response at your earliest convenience.

Best regards,
Angelo.
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Monday, 21 September 2015 00:43
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Hello Angelo,

You can do a customization via template overriding method which you can follow here: http://stackideas.com/docs/easyblog/administrators/customizations/template-overriding . With this, any changes on your theme file will not get overridden when updating Easyblog.
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Monday, 21 September 2015 11:14
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Hi Angelo,

Yes you can make adjustment to a theme or create a new one.

The master theme is Wireframe, and the other themes is inheriting from this template.

You also can use template override method as here: http://stackideas.com/docs/easyblog/administrators/customizations/template-overriding

May we know what is your requirement for your own blog template? Maybe with some custom settings setup and correct consultation, we can achieve it depending on your own requirements.

Please advice, thank you
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Monday, 21 September 2015 11:17
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Hi Nik and Ikram,

I have reviewed your suggestions.

Ikram, I have attached a document with some descriptions, samples, and suggestions of what we are looking for.

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Angelo.
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Tuesday, 22 September 2015 03:44
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Hi Angelo,

I already read through your requirement. You are right by using Nickel theme to compliment your needs. There is a few settings in our EasyBlog backend that can manage layout control to suit your needs:

Backend > Components > EasyBlog > Settings > Layout

For the grid display post, I would suggest to use this module too:
EasyBlog - Image Wall Module, this module will display all blog post that have blog image or having image in its post, and the display would be only the image and post title.

Hope this would help
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Tuesday, 22 September 2015 11:38
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Hi Ikram,

I will play with the Layout settings and see how far I can get. What about the colors of the buttons of the modules: Search and Subscribe for instance. Is their an easy and effective way to modify them to coincide with those of website?

Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Angelo.
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Wednesday, 23 September 2015 02:17
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Hi Angelo,

> What about the colors of the buttons of the modules: Search and Subscribe for instance. Is their an easy and effective way to modify them to coincide with those of website?

Our components using Bootstrap classnames for buttons and forms, and we are using our own Bootstrap since we don't want to have any styling conflict for those elements.

You can override those styling by using this http://stackideas.com/docs/easyblog/administrators/customizations/template-overriding and I strongly suggest you override the styling whitin your own Joomla template rather than customizing the component itself. It's more simple, safer and your custom will remain whenever you update our component in future.

This is how the stylesheet files is loaded in your Joomla template <header>.
[our component's stylesheets]
[your Joomla stylesheets]
[your Joomla custom stylesheets - custom.css]

In our components, most of our styling start with div#fd.eb as prefix, example
div#fd.eb .btn-primary {
background: blue;
color: white;
}


I believed your Joomla template might be using Bootstrap as foundation too. Example of your button styling:
.btn-primary {
background: red;
color: green;
text-decoration: underline;
border: 1px solid #000;
}


You can simply override our component's buttons styling by using this hack:
.btn-primary,
body div#fd.eb .btn-primary {
background: red;
color: green;
text-decoration: underline;
border: 1px solid #000;
}


By utilising multiple selectors method, you can custom our buttons styling very easily. Yes it is required some technical skills to learn, but please don't limit yourself and trust me, HTML/CSS is fun to learn.

Hope this will help, please advice
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Wednesday, 23 September 2015 11:52
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