Hello Andy,

The plugin is still in beta and I don't really have the time to update it yet You can hack the plugin if you want by editing the file /plugins/content/easydiscuss/easydiscuss.php

OK understood. I'll take a look and see what I can do.

Strangely though I notice now on my EasyDiscuss that some blogs are showing with just the 'Read full article' text... Did you do anything or is perhaps the plugin creating these as and when people visit the various blogs maybe?

That's actually kind of the thing I wanted - so if I can find the code where ED is creating that, then I can replicate it wherever it is that ED creates a discussion when a blog is edited / published.

Hello Andy,

Hm, I didn't actually make any changes on the site apart from enabling EasyDiscuss in the comment area

That's odd then! There must be different discussion creation behaviour based on whether you edit a blog, or view one (that's assuming the new discussion entries are being created as and when blogs are viewed - or maybe the plugin is just working behind the scenes creating them).

I'm going to turn the plugin off for now to stop the creation of discussions (I have 1,000+ blogs) prior to me hacking that file to include the standard text I'm after.

In case you are still looking at this though, feel free to turn the plugin back on to experiment. I'm also going to delete most of the discussions created so far (but will leave the one that created the full text when I edited an article, and the one of the new ones that are created with just the 'read full blog' text.

Andy,

If you need to hack the file, it's located in /plugins/content/easydiscuss/easydiscuss.php

OK I've taken a look at that file and I'm understanding how it works a bit better now... One thing I can't find is where the text "Read full article..." comes from.... does the plugin have a language file somewhere - I can't see it?

That's the default text that is added for existing blogs when you enable the plugin.

My overall objective here is to be able to change that text, and also to use that text instead of the current behaviour of all the text from new and edited blogs going into EasyDiscuss.

The language file is using COM_EASYDISCUSS_PLUGIN_READMORE

Thanks Mark... I've got half-way with this....

DONE: Change the standard text that the plugin uses when it creates a discussion for existing blogs.

NOT DONE: Stop the plugin (or EasyDiscuss itself) changing that standard text when the blog is edited - or when a new blog is created.

I can't quite follow the code well enough to see what I need to do to stop the behaviour of updating the ED post when the EB post is edited, nor to stop the use of the full blog text when a new blog is written (I just want it to use my standard text that I've got it using for existing blogs).

I can wait for a response because I know ED isn't on the priority development list, but grateful for any further help as and when you can....

Hello Andy,

Hm, not too sure which text are you referring to here. Can you please advise?

Hi Mark... When you first activate the plugin, it begins creating a ED thread for every pre-existing Blog - and by default it uses the text 'Read Full Article'. On my site you'll see I've changed that to a much longer intro that I wanted which begins "What did you think about this article?....."

BUT when you create a new blog, or edit an existing one, the plugin takes the blog contents and replaces whatever was in the ED thread... That's the behaviour I'm trying to stop and keep my default text intact. (Reason is I don't want my ED being an exact copy of my EB content!)....

Thanks for sharing

Hi Mark,

The language file is using COM_EASYDISCUSS_PLUGIN_READMORE

I am playing with newly installed EB/ED and also would like to edit, well, actually, translate, the "Read Full Article" link but to no avail.

The COM_EASYDISCUSS_PLUGIN_READMORE key is translated in my ru-RU.com_easydiscuss.ini and the site's front end is switched to Russian but the link still get displayed in English.

Assuming that ED could pull this link text from its English language file, I also tried to translate it inside the en-GB.com_easydiscuss.ini. No joy either.

Where could I go to edit or translate it please?

P S What really puzzles me is that the pre-created out of the box "Copy of You have successfully installed EasyBlog" blog post shows up the "Read full article" link in Russian. Once I start creating new blog posts, even within the same "Uncategorised" category, the link displays back in English.

hey Alex,

We are no longer providing support to users with a translator license as stated on http://stackideas.com/forums/announcement-for-all-translators

However, your subscription would still grant you access to our products as long as the language strings are up-to-date. Should you require any professional assistance, please consider purchasing a proper license for your account.

Thanks for understanding.

Regarding with your case, I already tested in my locally, it seems work fine, this is what I trying to do :
1. Make sure this following language constants translated from this language file -> JoomlaFolder/language/ru-RU/ru-RU.com_easydiscuss.ini

COM_EASYDISCUSS_PLUGIN_READMORE="Читать статью полностью"

2. Set Russian as frontend default language.
3. Create a new blog post from frontend
4. Once you already created blog post, that read more content will store in database, mean if the language show English, it will always show English.

Because this plugin using the event trigger when saving the blog post that moment, it will inject the read more translated content into the discussion post, you can check my attached screenshot below, it did show correctly.

As a gentle reminder, kindly start a new thread if you have any other issue in the future so it will be easier for us to manage your inquiry. I will lock and mark this thread as resolved.