Module to choose team blog subscription
By Gary Bashor on Sunday, 22 February 2015
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I am using Easyblog for a purpose which it clear was not designed , but find it suits what I need quite well.

I operate a site for my Court which has a need to post up a daily copy of our schedule. We also wanted to allow folks to get that information by e-mail when updated. We use Easyblog as our "Court News" feed, and it appeared to be a good way to get there.



The only issue is that I wanted to be able to post up the really nice subscribe module but it does not appear to give the option of choosing to only subscribe to a team blog. (We have folks who want to subscribe to the main feed but not the daily schedules, etc.) My solution was to create several team blogs with different purposes, then grab the Javascript code from the team blog subscribe link and make a custom html module to allow for subscriptions to the various team blogs. It seems to be working quite well, but if the regular module had the capability of displaying the choice of blogs to subscribe to, it would be really useful!

Thanks for some great software - just thought this might be of use to you.
Hello Gary,

Great workaround you had there! You might want to share the modified module with other users.
Nik Faris
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Sunday, 22 February 2015 12:38
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It was actually pretty easy. I just right clicked on the teamblog subscribe link and looked at the source code, the duplicated it in a Joomla Module, with the wording I wanted. Looks like this:

<a class="link-subscribe" href="javascript:eblog.subscription.show('team','2');">
<span>Subscribe to updates from team</span>
</a>

I simply toggled to a source editor in joomla, then pasted in the above for the team in question, the changed the "Subscribe to updates from the team" to the language I wanted and bolded it.

I added a graphic to the beginning of the line for appearances on my site, but certainly not needed.

The team blogs appear to be numbered in the order you create them, so you can create them so it is pretty easy to create as many of these as you like using a custom HTML module.

Certainly not rocket science and not as cool as a module that allowed you to do this without code, but it works.
Gary Bashor
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Monday, 23 February 2015 09:36
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Thanks for sharing, Gary!
Nik Faris
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Monday, 23 February 2015 10:31
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Hey Gary, looks like you're establishing a Joomla precedent this may come in handy thanks
Kevin
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Tuesday, 24 February 2015 23:56
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Hello Eileen,

You can try Gary's solution and share with us your experience here.
Nik Faris
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Wednesday, 25 February 2015 00:30
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If I actually had a clue as to what I was doing it might be even more useful Thanks for the kudos.

Even a blind mouse occasionally finds a piece of cheese.
Gary Bashor
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Wednesday, 25 February 2015 00:53
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Hello Gary,

Great! Keep it up.
Nik Faris
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Wednesday, 25 February 2015 10:55
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Hi,

yes, to choose witch blog to subscribe is a must and i wonder why its not working yet?!
Dennis T.
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Wednesday, 22 July 2015 16:54
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Hello Dennis,

I'm sorry but we haven't had plan to include it in the module yet. This forum post is about modification of custom HTML module shared by other user to Stackideas Community. Perhaps, you can write it in our Voices page here: http://www.stackideas.com/voices/easyblog and our developers will get back to you.
Nik Faris
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Thursday, 23 July 2015 11:02
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