Exclude Joomla registered users from EasyBlog
By Damian Webber on Wednesday, 17 April 2013
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Hello,

I have an ecommerce site with EasyBlog installed. When purchasing a product, customers are added to the "Registered" Joomla user group at the time of check-out but they are also being added to EasyBlog as bloggers.

I have set the ACL permissions so that these registered customers cannot blog but it would be better if they weren't appearing in EasyBlog at all. Is this possible and if so, how do I configure things so new registered customers are not added as bloggers?

Also, how do I remove the customers that have already been added as bloggers? If I delete a user from EasyBlog, they are also deleted from Joomla which is not what I want. I have 100's of customers appearing in EasyBlog as bloggers and the list grows with every sale. If I disable the EasyBlog Users plugin and then delete these customers from EasyBlog, will that keep their Joomla profiles intact?

All these unwanted bloggers are very annoying so any help or advice here would be greatly appreciated.

I am using J3.0.3 with EasyBlog 3.7.14.

Many thanks...
Hi,

My client just noticed the same thing. She's using a slightly out-of-date version of EasyBlog (3.9.15790) - I'll update it shortly - but according to this thread, the bug should have been fixed long ago. She has thousands of users on her site and just noticed that each one is listed as a "blogger" in easyblog, and searching for the person's name in the front end brings up a public profile page that says they haven't set their bio yet.

How can we stop EasyBlog from creating bloggers for each new user?
Also, how can we stop these profiles from appearing?

Chris
Chris Clay
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Friday, 17 October 2014 03:35
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Just to follow up, I checked EasyBlog's ACL settings and found that, for every Joomla user group, even new ones created recently, all of the features were set to "Yes" (Write Entry, Publish Entry etc.) I created a new user group as a test and found that, again, all the features were set to "Yes". Every time we create a Joomla user group, we shouldn't have to go into EasyBlog's ACL section and disable everything - is this a bug?

Chris
Chris Clay
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Friday, 17 October 2014 03:45
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One more bit of info - I updated EasyBlog to the latest version (3.9.18967), created a new Joomla user group, and found the same thing. All features were enabled. I think it's important to have these disabled by default for new user groups!

Chris
Chris Clay
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Friday, 17 October 2014 03:54
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Hello Chris,

Thanks for the heads up on this, by default all features are enabled because users would prefer to be able to access and post blog posts. You can just edit the ACL and disallow them to post and publish blog posts. The reason that it is enabled by default is because not everyone uses the ACL and they will be inclined to expect the system to just work out of the box without configuring anything.

Advanced users like yourself would most likely want to restrict rather than allowing access and therefore it would make more sense if everything should be enabled by default unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Mark
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Friday, 17 October 2014 12:59
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Ok, fair enough. Thanks for the fast response.
Chris Clay
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Friday, 17 October 2014 13:11
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You are most welcome Chris Thanks for the heads up on this!
Mark
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Friday, 17 October 2014 13:47
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