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By Michele Brown on Friday, 30 January 2015
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I made a last minute decision to switch to easyblog from K2 prior to a site launch in order to be able to have authors notified of comments to their post.

I am having trouble getting the easyblog posts to display the same way though. I am using a 3rd party module called xpert contents to display the latest blog posts on the homepage in a module position. I haven't found a way to do this with easyblog without the 3rd party module. Maybe I am missing something?

The image isn't coming through. It doesn't if I switch the content type to K2 or joomla, so I am thinking it has to be something in the way I did the image in the easyblog post. I have tried changing the users media directory to just /images but that didn't do it.

Also, when you click on the name of the post it opens within the homepage. I need it to go to that post in easyblog or at least open a new page.

Maybe I am missing some really easy things due to my last minute rush. Can you point me in the right direction to functionality I need?
Hello Michele,

For the display part, you might want to try our Easyblog Latest Module which will display the latest blog in a module. You can find the module here: http://stackideas.com/downloads/modules . Please give it a try. You can also access the Recent Blog page via this URL: http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog.

As for the open within the homepage issue, have you created any menu item that point to Easyblog Frontpage Layout? If you don't have that menu item, Easyblog will use your default menu item as a base page.
Nik Faris
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Friday, 30 January 2015 01:33
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Thank you. I had looked at the latest blog post on your site and thought it wouldn't provide the layout needed, but lo and behold it does. Can you point me to the css or way to change it so the text is alongside of the image instead of underneath it?

I do have a menu item for easyblog. It is not in the main menu though. I have one in a hidden menu and one in a top menu. Does there need to be one in the main menu?
Michele Brown
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Friday, 30 January 2015 01:53
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Hello Michele,

I've fixed the load homepage issue for you. And for the module layout, you may need to customize it to follow the desired layout. You can find the the file here: ../modules/mod_latestblogs/tmpl/default_item.php
Nik Faris
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Friday, 30 January 2015 12:35
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I am in the module.css but am having trouble finding the class that changes the layout for the display in initial post listing display. I am a novice at css and am not a php coder at all. Could you possibly throw me a nugget?
Michele Brown
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Sunday, 01 February 2015 21:20
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Hello Michele,

You'll probably want to add the css codes into your template's css file rather than the module.css file . This is to prevent your changes getting overriden when you upgrade EasyBlog.

As for having the text beside the image, you probably don't want a 100% width on the image so you could do something like this,



.ezb-mod .mod-post-image {

width: 250px !important;

}
Mark
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Sunday, 01 February 2015 23:51
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