By Macjoomla on Wednesday, 19 April 2017
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Hello, just a little question, in old version of EasyBlog i used to have a preference in composer (see attachment) if i want to publish my post on frontpage. Now i cant find it in new EasyBlog 5.1.2. Where can i activate this?

Thank you and best regards, Macjoomla
Hello Macjoomla,

We have actually removed this altogether to simplify the UI for your authors. They really shouldn't need to know if they need to publish on the front page. If you really need this, you could edit the file below,

/components/com_easyblog/themes/wireframe/composer/panels/post/general/default.php

At line 64, replace the codes below,

[gist]
<?php if ($this->acl->get('contribute_frontpage') ) { ?>
<input type="hidden" name="frontpage" value="<?php echo $post->frontpage ? 1 : 0;?>" />
<?php } ?>
[/gist]

With,

[gist]
<?php echo $this->html('composer.field', 'form.toggler', 'frontpage', 'Front Page', $post->frontpage); ?>
[/gist]
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Wednesday, 19 April 2017 23:02
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Hello Mark and thank you for your fast answer – So i can search a long time for this function…

And thank you for the code to change, but to be honest, i think this is a little handy toggle and you should really think about putting it back for all user again. Maybe with a preference to show or not to show. There is a nice place in prefences for this and one more point does not matter. Please see attached screenshot

Thank you and best regards, Macjoomla
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Wednesday, 19 April 2017 23:25
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Hello Macjoomla,

Noted, perhaps if you could submit this under the feature requests area and we'll evaluate if there is enough people wanting such functionality? We are in a tricky situation here because having too many settings is confusing for most site admins
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Wednesday, 19 April 2017 23:29
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Hello Mark,

you are funny, asking me to make a feature request for a feature that has been scrapped but been there for all the last years

I will collect my feature requests and add the five most urgent ones

Thank you and best regards, Macjoomla
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Wednesday, 19 April 2017 23:39
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Thanks for understanding Macjoomla. I understand but it is necessary that we truly understand what our user really needs. For instance, it wouldn't make sense for us to add 1 settings which may only benefit 1 site while it adds confusions to rest of the site owners.

Thank you for your patience and I hope you understand where we are coming from.
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Wednesday, 19 April 2017 23:43
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Hello Mark, sure i am understanding your point and however you are making great components. Just wanted to say, if you delete functions, it may add confusion as well, as in my case…

Thank you and best regards, Macjoomla
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Wednesday, 19 April 2017 23:57
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Noted, thanks for the input on this.
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Thursday, 20 April 2017 00:10
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