Problems I've found with EB 5.08
By Dave Parker on Friday, 19 June 2015
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Hi guys...
Okay, so I've found the following issues...

1. Cron jobs are no longer working. They worked yesterday on 5.07 but today, nothing. Here is the crontab command I've used:
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -q --delete-after "https://it-advice.guru/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cron"

2. On the categories page (https://it-advice.guru/how-to/blogs/categories) you'll notice that the avatar images are so small you can barely see them (next to the category title). This behavior is also duplicated in the comments.

3. If a blog entry is associated with a team, it will not show in the category even though it counts it. For example, navigate to https://it-advice.guru/how-to/blogs/categories and you will see under "IT Advice Guru Blogs" it says there are no posts, but in the posts box, it says (2) - which is correct. If you navigate to https://it-advice.guru/it-advice.guru-blog/teamblogs/it-advice-team-blog you can see the blog entries.

4. When you look at https://it-advice.guru/it-advice.guru-blog/teamblogs/it-advice-team-blog you will see that the team avatars are obstructing the titles of the blog

5. When viewing a blog entry, there is no toolbar to navigate with. Is this by design? It's quite difficult to find a way back to thngs like categories without the toolbar.

6. When posting comments, creating or updating blogs, although EB is writing the action to the news feed, it's not appearing in the news feed. Similarly, even though I've installed the Blog ES App, it's not showing that I've written any blogs.

7. I tried to revert to a previous version of a blog, and got this error: 0 Invalid Controller: name='posts', format=''

Hope this helps
Dave
Hello Dave,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply.

Regarding on inquiry #1, can you download the attachment below and place it inside your /components/com_easyblog/services/ folder and see how it goes?

2. I tried putting these overrides into the custom.css of my template (luxon by Shape5). I even added ".eb-category-avatar" as that seemed to be the style used to control category icons, and it has had no effect

Can you try the following css instead and see how it goes?
div#fd.eb .eb-category .eb-avatar img {

    max-width: none !important;

}


3. Has this been looked into (i.e. missing blog entries in blog category if associated with a team blog)?

We were able to replicate this issue in our local and we are currently investigating it.

4. Team avatars still overlapping the blog post entry, and not fixed in 5.09. See screen shot for clarification (or visit original URL I posted).

I cannot replicate this issue in our local instance and I believe its related with the conflict of your current template. Can you try apply the following css fix and see how it goes?
div#fd.eb .eb-post .eb-post-avatar {

  left: 8px;

}



div#fd.eb .eb-post .eb-post-title {

  padding-left: 70px;

}



div#fd.eb .eb-post .eb-post-meta {

  padding-left: 70px;

}


7. I was referring to reverting a blog post back to an previous saved version. Not rolling back the whole EasyBlog back to a previous version (i.e. I wasn't trying to roll back from 5.08 to 3.9.x).

Ah I see. It seems like this issue is only occur for the old blog post that were migrated from 3.9 to 5. I will forward this issue to our developers so that they can do something about it.

Hope these help.
Ezrul Fazwan
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Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:38
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Regarding point 6 above - I've switched to using Komento which behaves as expected - but you may still want to look at the in-built comments thing and ES locally.
Dave
Dave Parker
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Saturday, 20 June 2015 00:22
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Hello Dave,

1. Cron jobs are no longer working. They worked yesterday on 5.07 but today, nothing. Here is the crontab command I've used:
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -q --delete-after "https://it-advice.guru/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cron";

I've tried to manually run the cron command for your site and it seems like the cron is executing successfully without any issue. May I know is there any error message from your server email notification when the cron is executed?

2. On the categories page (https://it-advice.guru/how-to/blogs/categories) you'll notice that the avatar images are so small you can barely see them (next to the category title). This behavior is also duplicated in the comments.

Can you apply the following css code inside your template file and see how it goes?
.eb-view-teamblog .eb-authors-avatar {

    max-width : none !important;

}


5. When viewing a blog entry, there is no toolbar to navigate with. Is this by design? It's quite difficult to find a way back to thngs like categories without the toolbar.

Unfortunately there is no such features yet in the current system of easyblog.

6. When posting comments, creating or updating blogs, although EB is writing the action to the news feed, it's not appearing in the news feed. Similarly, even though I've installed the Blog ES App, it's not showing that I've written any blogs.

This is a known bug with the easyblog apps. We have addressed this issue to our developers and they currently are working on it with the fix soon.

7. I tried to revert to a previous version of a blog, and got this error: 0 Invalid Controller: name='posts', format=''

May I know how you revert back to previous version? By right it is not possible to revert back the easyblog five to older version as the internal structure is totally different than the old version.

For question number 3 and 4 I'm still investigate on the issue and will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you for your kind understanding.
Ezrul Fazwan
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Monday, 22 June 2015 16:20
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Hi Ezrul.

1. I've copied the output below. Although it says the cron jobs are running successfully, in my EB back-end no mail has been processed since initially installing 5.07. When I installed 5.08, it stopped. All my other cron jobs are working fine.


Resolving it-advice.guru (it-advice.guru)... 141.101.127.9, 108.162.200.10, 2400:cb00:2048:1::6ca2:c80a, ...

…



Connecting to it-advice.guru (it-advice.guru)|141.101.127.9|:443... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently

Location: https://it-advice.guru/easyblog?task=cron [following]

--2015-06-22 09:38:01--  https://it-advice.guru/easyblog?task=cron

…



Reusing existing connection to it-advice.guru:443.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: unspecified [text/x-json]

Saving to: ‘index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cron.1’



     0K                                                        48.7M=0s



2015-06-22 09:38:02 (48.7 MB/s) - ‘index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cron.1’ saved [365]


2. I tried putting these overrides into the custom.css of my template (luxon by Shape5). I even added ".eb-category-avatar" as that seemed to be the style used to control category icons, and it has had no effect (yup, cleared cache, cleared down my pagespeed cache, and rebooted server).

3. Has this been looked into (i.e. missing blog entries in blog category if associated with a team blog)?

4. Team avatars still overlapping the blog post entry, and not fixed in 5.09. See screen shot for clarification (or visit original URL I posted).

7. I was referring to reverting a blog post back to an previous saved version. Not rolling back the whole EasyBlog back to a previous version (i.e. I wasn't trying to roll back from 5.08 to 3.9.x).

Dave
Dave Parker
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Tuesday, 23 June 2015 18:21
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Hi Ezrul.

1. Uploading that file has fixed the problems, and emails are now being processed via the cron job.

2. I can confirm this solution worked.

3. Okay, fine, I will await the outcome of your internal investigations.

4. The added CSS fixed this issue.

7. This was a post that was imported from Joomla Articles using the migrator, just in case the dev team need to look into that.

Thanks for all your help getting these issues resolved.
Dave
Dave Parker
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Wednesday, 24 June 2015 19:35
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Hello Dave,

Thanks for the heads up. I will get back to you once we have the update regarding on this issue.
Ezrul Fazwan
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Thursday, 25 June 2015 10:56
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