By Torgrim Sandvoll on Wednesday, 15 July 2015
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Registered user posting or editing blog post in EasyBlog

1. Is it possible to not have a category preselected when posting a new blog post? As it is now a category is preselected, and when user tries to deselect this (to select another) they get error message (must have at least one category selected). When user selects another category, default category is still selected (without knowing the user publishes to two categories). This is bad UIX and confusing.

I would like no selection, and if user tries to save/publish/update post, error message to please select category. Or at least no selection, and if user saves/publish a default category is selected (but not before).

2.How do I remove the Tags, Post properties, General and Privacy sections from view for registered users (regular users) editing a blog post?

I have set EasyBlog > ACL - Registered users > Compose -> Change Privacy... to No, still the heading Privacy shows up in post new/edit blog post view.

I have also set EasyBlog > ACL - Registered users > Compose -> Change Comment settings... to No, and Comment setting is gone, but then there will be no commenting for posts from registered users? I want it to be commenting for all blog posts on my sites by default (and no-one except admin should be able to turn off).

3. Is it possible to have the "Add post" button search/be able to insert posts from any author on site? (Theres an UIX error happening when author do not have any other posts and clicks this button, no "You do not have any other posts" message, just "Loading..." icon infidently).

4. When user post blog post from EasySocial story/status field, no images can be inserted. Ok I guess, but would be nice if user could also set cover image from here. But when editing same post afterwards, user is not able to add blocks/insert media or anything. The post is locked down? Theres an "Add media" button, but using it does not insert any images. There no Add block button. The Add Post button works, but does not insert. Unable to change font or insert links in text... Why? And post does not retain linebreaks inserted in story/update field.

PS: Where do I remove the Post blog from EasySocial Story/update feature? It is a very nice feature, but as it is now with now formatting options and not even linebreaks/enters retained in published post, I am sorry to say it is useless.

Ok, guess I stop here...(hope this is not too long)
Hey Torgrim,

Currently we do not have a settings for this but you are always welcome to customize the theme files in /components/com_easyblog/themes/wireframe/composer/
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Friday, 24 July 2015 01:50
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Hey Torgrim,

Another long post Anyway I will try my best to reply them all.


1. Is it possible to not have a category preselected when posting a new blog post? As it is now a category is preselected, and when user tries to deselect this (to select another) they get error message (must have at least one category selected). When user selects another category, default category is still selected (without knowing the user publishes to two categories). This is bad UIX and confusing.

I would like no selection, and if user tries to save/publish/update post, error message to please select category. Or at least no selection, and if user saves/publish a default category is selected (but not before).

Sorry, but this is not possible. There needs to be at least 1 default category selected by default.


2.How do I remove the Tags, Post properties, General and Privacy sections from view for registered users (regular users) editing a blog post?

I have set EasyBlog > ACL - Registered users > Compose -> Change Privacy... to No, still the heading Privacy shows up in post new/edit blog post view.

I have also set EasyBlog > ACL - Registered users > Compose -> Change Comment settings... to No, and Comment setting is gone, but then there will be no commenting for posts from registered users? I want it to be commenting for all blog posts on my sites by default (and no-one except admin should be able to turn off).

You can fix the "Privacy" heading by downloading the attached file and uploading it into /components/com_easyblog/themes/wireframe/composer/panel/post/publishing.php


3. Is it possible to have the "Add post" button search/be able to insert posts from any author on site? (Theres an UIX error happening when author do not have any other posts and clicks this button, no "You do not have any other posts" message, just "Loading..." icon infidently).

Unfortunately right now it's not possible to list all posts from the site but there seems to be a bug with the "indefinite" loading icon though. I have fixed this internally and this will be fixed on the next release.


4. When user post blog post from EasySocial story/status field, no images can be inserted. Ok I guess, but would be nice if user could also set cover image from here. But when editing same post afterwards, user is not able to add blocks/insert media or anything. The post is locked down? Theres an "Add media" button, but using it does not insert any images. There no Add block button. The Add Post button works, but does not insert. Unable to change font or insert links in text... Why? And post does not retain linebreaks inserted in story/update field.

When a post is created via the story form, it uses the WYSIWYG format (legacy editor). Hence, it loads up using the legacy editor rather than the new composer editor.


PS: Where do I remove the Post blog from EasySocial Story/update feature? It is a very nice feature, but as it is now with now formatting options and not even linebreaks/enters retained in published post, I am sorry to say it is useless.

Currently this cannot be configured but if you edit the file /media/com_easysocial/apps/user/blog/blog.php locate the codes at line 106,


public function onPrepareStoryPanel($story)
{


Replace it with,


public function onPrepareStoryPanel($story)
{
return;


I will make this configurable on the next release of the app
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Thursday, 16 July 2015 01:13
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Thank you for this Mark!

Privacy heading gone! (uploaded the publishing.php file).

But how do I remove the Tags, Properties and General sections from registered users view?
And why do registered users posts publish with no commenting system?

I do not want my registered users to mess with Tags, Properties and General settings. I want to set them by default for all my users as admin. Tags = No. Properties = Do not show/mess with for others than admin, General = Yes for all three options, but only admin can mess with/see these settings.

I hope you see my goal here.
I want it to be fast and easy for my registered users to post a blog article. And I want my users to be able to insert title, cover image, and postcontent/body with only text, images and youtube videos. Thats it! Other options will just confuse my users.
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Thursday, 16 July 2015 18:18
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Hey there,

Unfortunately right now there is no way to disable these currently.
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Saturday, 18 July 2015 17:58
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There surely must be a file where I can remove the code for these sections, so they do not show up in the editor?
Biggest problem now is that I (admin) want commenting for all blog posts as default (And we do not want users to be able to turn off commenting), but when we hide it from editor, the commenting gets set to "No" by default...
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Wednesday, 22 July 2015 19:30
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