Hey there,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.

1. Comment moderation issue
I've tested on your site, it seems those comment is under moderation once guest user submit a new comment on the blog post, you can check my screenshot here : https://www.screencast.com/t/HT7PipIO .

2. Remove guest and avatar from the comment
Currently that is no setting to remove it, but you can download my attached file and replace into your current template override location path JoomlaFolder/templates/YourCurrentTemplate/html/com_easyblog/comments/default.item.php , so those thing should disappeared now.

3. No email notification send to the commenter once their comment get approved by admin
I will log into our issue tracker.

4. When the admin goes to approve/disallow a comment by clicking on the link in an email, are they sent to the post with the comment (obviously after logging in)?

When they click on approve/reject button from the email, it will get redirect to that post page and it will show you a message this comment approved/rejected successfully, it won't required user to login.

5. Where are the email address and the website address saved when the commenter fills in those fields? Can that info be gained from the front end? Or just the backend? Or nowhere?

Those info only can check from backend > Easyblog > comment , but i realised there got a bug, it doesn't store the website field data during comment save, i will log into our issue tracker.

6. When people subscribe to the blog, there is a popup which has an agreemtn to collect data check mark box on it. How do I change that text from "I agree to allow the site to collect my data solely for the use of subscriptions" to "I agree to allow NorCalPulse.com to collect my data for the use of subscriptions"? I also want the default state of the check box to be checked.

You can change the text from backend > Easyblog > setting > general > subscription .
We do not have setting to set this agreement checkbox checked by default, but you can download my attached file and replace into your current template override location path JoomlaFolder/templates/YourCurrentTemplate/html/com_easyblog/subscription/dialogs/form.php

7. On that popup, can we add an additional box? Perhaps one that says, "Please add me to the mailing list for Pulse News, the upcoming monthly newsletter about Northern California events, outdoors, contests, promotions and more!" (can you have the check mark auto-filled on this too?)

Yes, can, but you have to modify this code under this same file here JoomlaFolder/templates/YourCurrentTemplate/html/com_easyblog/subscription/dialogs/form.php, this is the file output that dialog form content.
If you would like to do this integration with your other newsletter about those (Northern California events, and etc), you need to customise the core code so that when the user click on subscribe button, your newsletter there can able to detect which email subscribe it.

Hi Arlex,

I have found what I was looking for under 2), I would also like to remove guest and avatar. However, could you pls. describe in more detail how I can override with your attached file default.item.php, I am not confident in doing that. Thank you and have a nice weekend.

Daniel

It is not an urgent matter, a response next week will be sufficient for me.

Hello Daniel,

You just need to upload the file into /templates/CURRENT_JOOMLA_TEMPLATE/html/com_easyblog/comments/ . You can read more about template overrides here, https://stackideas.com/docs/easyblog/administrators/customizations/template-overriding

Hi Mark,

thanx for your answer.

Under templates/CURRENT_JOOMLA_TEMPLATE/html/com_easyblog i currently cannot find an "comments" folder (only "styles" folder). Should I create a new one with that name and save the file in that folder?

Hi Mark,

thanx for your answer.

Under templates/CURRENT_JOOMLA_TEMPLATE/html/com_easyblog i currently cannot find an "comments" folder (only "styles" folder). Should I create a new one with that name and save the file in that folder?

Yes, you should manually create those folder for example :

Open this directory folder JoomlaFolder/templates/YourCurrentTemplate/html then manually add this following new folders :
- com_easyblog
- comments

Then only paste this default.item.php over there.

it worked perfectly, thank you Arlex

Just another question: Can I use HTML to create links in my comments I post? At the moment i dont like how it looks like, eg. here: https://www.fernweh-trekking.de/patagonien-news-infos/torres-del-paine-wichtige-tipps

What about highlighting some words in bold?

Hey Daniel,

You're most welcome.

Perhaps you can start a new thread on our forum regarding with your new question because your question is not related with this thread original question, it will difficult other user to follow up this thread in the future.

Thanks for understanding.