By Steven Merkel on Sunday, 27 December 2015
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Hello,

I have a quick question, is it possible to add blocks to articles that are imported into EasyBlog from Joomla? When I open an imported blog post through EasyBlog I don't see the add block button in the composer.

Thank You,
Steve
Hey Steve,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. I am sorry but unfortunately there is no way to do that right now

The new composer that we introduced in EasyBlog 5 is very sophisticated in it's way where it actually stores a lot of rich data when you are composing blog posts. Most of these "rich" data is being added while you are composing the blog post without you knowing at all.

For instance, when you insert a "link block" into the composer, it actually stores the url, response, open in a new tab, description of the url in a json string which is then sent back to the server when you save your blog post.

In order for the new composer to be able to convert your blog post format into the composer format, there are over thousands of operation that needs to be done, let alone the script needs to scan through every single "html" tags in the content to determine it's block type and unfortunately the accuracy is probably going to only be 20% - 30%

I certainly do hope that this would be possible as it makes all our operation so much easier though.
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Monday, 28 December 2015 00:09
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Thank you Mark for the detailed reply. I had a feeling adding blocks to imported articles wasn't going to be possible, but I wanted to make sure.
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Tuesday, 29 December 2015 08:42
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Not a problem at all Steven I just wanted to share with you some of the obstacles that we were facing. Like they always say, "sharing is caring"
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Tuesday, 29 December 2015 12:18
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