Guys,

I've managed to resolve the issue myself. There was a time a few years back when I didn't hesitate to include Easyblog in all the sites I built. Content Marketing is a big part of the work I do with small businesses and nonprofits. But these organisations need me to be spending my time helping them with marketing, not wrestling with Easyblog updates. More often than not, one gets part of the way in and then you have to back out, come here to StackIdeas, and then download the launcher, upload it and then proceed. For non-technical organisations, that's asking a lot. Most other extensions I work with make this as easy as possible for clients. Almost every time I've attempted to install updates from inside Joomla's updater it fails. Today, it brought the site down. I'm reaching the point where for smaller clients I'm beginning to ditch Easyblog. At 100 dollars it's become expensive, and many of the features it offers can be obtained piecemeal from other vendors or come built into the templates on offer. Agreed, it's no longer a one-stop shop solution, but going the category blog route with comments and social sharing added from other separate vendors provides small businesses a cost-effective solution and doesn't eat up my time trying to run your updater. I recently had another site where Easyblog wouldn't play nice with JCE editor. Forcing people to use your editor means that we have to train people on two different editors, one for content in the site, and another for content in the blog. I've been using Easyblog for several years with multiple clients and I'm reaching a point where if things don't improve I will let licenses run to the end and then find another way to get the functionality needed. I expect the only sites where I'll use it is where there is a large internal staff who need to post content and need the multi-user functionality Easyblog provides.

Regards,

Norman Smit

Hello Norman,

We have been improving our installer and it is pretty much pretty stable right now with 5.1.6. We have also gotten to the bottom of the errors that you get earlier and the primary reason that you were hitting those errors were because the site was probably upgraded from 3.9.x or older.

In the 3.x releases, our updater somehow mis-included the file easyblog.16.xml and easyblog.30.xml which were both used to support Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 2.5 and 3.0 respectively.

Since we have dropped the support for 1.5, 1.6 and 2.5, we no longer use such files any longer. Hence, with the 5.1.6 build, we have removed both of these files which were causing errors to your installs. Moving forward, I believe the installer is pretty stable right now.

As for the editor, you should try 5.1.6 with JCE. It should play along nicely as the composer now opens on a full window rather than a popup within an iframe.

Hi!

I am experiencing the same. I am using EasySocial and all other Stackideas latest versions, still every time a new Easyblog has a new update, the new installer com_easyblog_launcher_pro_5.1.6_joomla breaks the site and the backend. I am getting tired of it! I never experienced so many problems in the past with Stackideas plugins. What's going on?

[01-May-2017 01:56:13 CST6CDT] PHP Warning: require_once(/home/xxx/public_html/administrator/components/com_easyblog/tables/table.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/frontmat/public_html/administrator/components/com_easyblog/includes/easyblog.php on line 826
Every time, I need to restore a backup!

Agnes

Hello AB,

There is actually a known issue especially for upgrades since 3.9.x. This bug is actually from 3.9.x. This is what you need to do before upgrading:

1. Delete easyblog.16.xml and easyblog.30.xml from /administrator/components/com_easyblog

2. Delete any .backup files in /administrator/components/com_easyblog

Once you have done the above, you could upgrade without any issues any longer.