By Quinn on Thursday, 02 April 2015
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I have the Blog Categories module on my site blog page in a sidebar. When I click on one of the categories, I don't get the sidebar anymore. Normally, Joomla will show the modules on the children of the menu item for which they are assigned. In the module options for Blog Categories, I have select the BLOG menu item for "Use menu item", but that doesn't help either. The sidebar does show on individual post views though. I looked into the component to see if there were template overrides I could create, but there appears to be no layout code in the php files in com_easyblog/views/categories/tmpl. Any suggestions?
Hello Quinn,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply.

You can find the file from the /components/com_easyblog/themes/default/blog.categories.php and /components/com_easyblog/themes/default/blog.category.php. Although you might thinking it is not in the vintage theme folder but it actually inherited from the default theme

Hope these help.
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Friday, 03 April 2015 11:09
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Hello Quinn,

Can you provide us with Joomla backend and FTP access so we can check on the issue directly?
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Thursday, 02 April 2015 16:20
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Sure.
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Thursday, 02 April 2015 17:50
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Hello Quinn,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply.

It seems like you have set all of the module to be positioned on "easyblog-sidebar-right" position and I believe this position is provided by your template. The default easyblog component does not have the easyblog-sidebar-right position and when you navigate yourself to easyblog category listing page or any other page aside from the frontpage, the position is no longer exist. Refer screenshot below.
1) http://screen.stackideas.com/2015-04-02_1908.png - frontpage view contain the easyblog-siderbar-right position
2) http://screen.stackideas.com/2015-04-02_1908_001.png - the position is not exist.

Perhaps you might want to consult with your template provider regarding on this issue.
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Thursday, 02 April 2015 19:09
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I am the template developer, so I had a little discussion with myself about how I created the position and why.

The sidebar position is a custom position not in the template. It's called in the com_easyblog theme overrides for the vintage theme. So I have it in the template overrides for the "item" and "read" php files. That explains why the Joomla menu Itemid doesn't show the sidebar in category view. And so I'm missing a template override for the category view. Can you point me to which files I need to override for the category view?

I had to create the sidebar position in the theme file overrides because the design I was given had the blog title and intro full width above the sidebar, and so calling it in the template beside the component wouldn't do that.
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Thursday, 02 April 2015 21:55
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That's what I was looking for! Thanks!

I should have thought to check the default theme folder, but I'm still learning your software file structure and such!
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Friday, 03 April 2015 19:01
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Hello Quinn,

You are most welcome.
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Friday, 03 April 2015 21:04
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