Multiple Blogs... want different titles
By Jon Lachelt on Wednesday, 01 May 2013
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I'm trying to create multiple blogs for my web-site.
1) news about our organization
2) a blog about a specific topic

The same person is going to be posting entries to each of these blogs.
I can assign the posts to different categories (e.g. "News" and "One Man's Journey")

What I can't figure out is how can I get each blog to have a different title?

I've tried "Single Blogger Layout" and "Single Category Layout"... but it always titles the page with the generic blog title from the Settings tab.
I just recently discovered that while this little hack seems to work when you are looking at the blog postings category, however, if you click through the "Continue Reading . . ." and drill down to the entire blog posting, the blog title appears, not the category title. Would you be able to share what I can do to fix this? Thanks.
Jim Johnson
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Saturday, 02 November 2013 00:54
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Hello Jim,

Sorry for the late reply. May I know if your Category is tied to a menu item? If yes then please change the codes accordingly
//custom hack for showing category name as blog title 

if(JRequest::getInt( 'Itemid' )==123)

{

	$id     = JRequest::getInt( 'id' );

	$category	= EasyBlogHelper::getTable( 'Category' );

	$category->load( $id );

	$title = $category->title;

}

Replace 123 with the menu id. Hope this helps.

Thanks!
Adelene
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Saturday, 02 November 2013 01:50
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Actually, it is tied to a menu item, but when I do that, nothing shows at all. The title is missing completely, like the variable isn't getting loaded. The category displays as the title still fine, but when you click on "Continue Reading" the blog title isn't showing at all (not as blog title or category title, simply not there.)
Jim Johnson
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Saturday, 02 November 2013 02:30
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Hello Jim,

Hmm can you change this
if(JRequest::getInt( 'Itemid' )==123)

to
if(JRequest::getVar( 'Itemid' )==123)

Do remember to replace the 123 with your item id for the categories. I you still can't get it to work please provide backend and FTP access. Hope this helps.

Thanks!
Adelene
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Saturday, 02 November 2013 02:50
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Hello,

can i suggest to include this as a backend parameter for easyblog
as main title : "use main blog title" or "use category title" or "use blogger name" ?

it can feat different use
Loïc
loic
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Saturday, 02 November 2013 18:08
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Hello Loic,

Hmm, I shall add this in the request list for review

Thanks!
Adelene
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Sunday, 03 November 2013 00:42
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Was this feature ever added? I am trying to do something similar. Thank you.
Sue Leiting
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Friday, 14 November 2014 05:59
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Hello Sue,

We are sorry but we haven't add this feature yet. By the way, you might want to add this to our Voices page http://www.stackideas.com/voices/easyblog
Nik Faris
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Friday, 14 November 2014 10:26
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