Hey there,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.

In Easysocial 3.x, we already removed the sidebar from the user dashboard page, if you would like to add back those module display on the user dashboard sidebar, you have to add your module into this module position es-dashboard-aside.

I will help you to set it up for those module you would like to display back to the sidebar.

May i know your live site already revert back to older version of Easysocial now?

And now you having this layout broken issue on your development site? Since this Easysocial 3.x is major update, I would suggest you that create a development site first then upgrade it from there, it will not effect your live site normal process, at the same time we can investigate this issue on your development site.

If you already setup development site on your site, can you provide us with your development site FTP access as well?

Hi Arlex, Already have a Dev site up and running but recently reset it to reflect current site, after testing the update. I'll go through the process again.

Is it just the Dashboard where the sidebar has been removed?

Also can I keep text action menus? My client refuses to accept the new icons.

Hi there,

Is it just the Dashboard where the sidebar has been removed?

We have removed sidebar on all page on our Easysocial pages as we have replaced with sidebar module as you can see here https://take.ms/KHD7C

Also can I keep text action menus? My client refuses to accept the new icons.

Not sure which part of them you referring to currently. Can you point them out so that we can further check them?

It's where you've changed text to icons.

My clients want to keep this as text and not use what they see as unrecognizable icons (no offence).

Hi there,

Unfortunately, it is not possible to achieve this as you will need to do heavy modifications in order for you to revert those changes on your end.

Thanks for your understanding.

I'm sorry I don't understand.

How can you implement such a massive change to the UI without anyway of maintaining status quo?
My clients have designed and approved a layout which I have built and delivered, they are not keeping up with your trends.
Now you're suggesting I have to go back to the client and get them to approve this massive change. Worse than that you're actually suggesting I have to pay you to keep what I already purchased.


I have no words to explain how disappointed I am in this.

Hey Gary,

I would like to clarify one thing is every time we made any major changes or development progress from our existing extension, we will announce this on our blog posts, you can take a look of my following blog post start from the Easysocial 3.0 progress update until stable version release.

https://stackideas.com/blog/easysocial-3-0-progress-updates
https://stackideas.com/blog/additional-updates-for-easysocial-3
https://stackideas.com/blog/easysocial3-beta-released
https://stackideas.com/blog/easysocial-3-0-stable-released

And we did mentioned about redesigned story form into the blog post, and I also believe you should able to receive our newsletter about the Easysocial 3.0 stable released email, because we did send out this newsletter to all our customer.

Regarding with your current issue which your client is not accept with this new changes for the story form design in Easysocial 3.0 :

1. Rollback to your previous backup which is 2.2.7 Easysocial version if your live site already updated to Easysocial 3.x, so it will maintain to show text on the story form.

2. Provide us with your development site FTP access, so I will apply some of the changes to show back to text from the story form, example : https://take.ms/28Vlk , but I can't guarantee to you, it will show back the old version story form styling.

Hi Arlex,
Yes, I read all the posts and progress but I assumed there would be a way to enable/disable or at least do a little work to override.
I think I have been helped for the sidebar problem I have, I think you guys have created a new module, so just these Icons but Abdul says it will take HEAVY modifications. I also want to be able to update for security.

You should still have login details as hasn't changed. But I need to work this out on dev site first.

According what my colleague explained to you in earlier, it will be involved a lot of files and the styling part if you would like to customise it to show exactly what it shown in Easysocial 2.x story form.

May i know do you have check my above screenshot which is https://take.ms/28Vlk , I can assist you make some changes to show text to similar as what I shown you that screenshot but the styling part will be not show exactly same like before, if you okay with it, I will start working on it, can you update your development site FTP access so I can apply those files override into your current template?

Hi Arlex, thanks so much for your offer of help. Sorry to take so long to come back to you.
last week was a bit crazy here.

Your image looked good and would keep my client calm. Would I be able to rollout your changes from Dev to Live?
It's not a staging site.

I'm hoping they would just be overrides?

You are welcome, since 2 replies you also didn't provide us with your site FTP access so you can try download my attached files and replace into this following template override location and the custom css.

1. Download my attached zip file, extract the zip file, copy this whole 'story' folder override into your current template file location JoomlaFolder/templates/yourCurrentTemplate/html/com_easysocial/

3. Apply this following custom css into your site backend > Easysocial > theme > custom css

body #es .es-story-panel-button:hover {

    color: #444;

}



body #es .es-story-panel-button.active {

    color: #444;

    background-color: #f5f5f5;

}



body #es .es-story-panel-button {

    padding: 4px 8px;

    border-radius: 12px;

}

Do take note, those new template folder you have to create it by yourself.

If got some issue after you applied on your site, you can temporary rename this folder JoomlaFolder/templates/yourCurrentTemplate/html/com_easysocial/story and remove those custom css and update me what is the issue.

Arlex, this is great. I'm just waiting for client to approve some final mods bfeore I implement this on Dev and try ensure a smotth transition to the latest version.

I really appreciate all your help.

You're welcome Gary, perhaps you can start a new thread if there got any other issue.