Hey Marco,

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

We have removed the social buttons position from EasyBlog 5 as it generates too many issues in most EasyBlog installation. This is because when you configure these social buttons to appear on the right, but having a different button size would cause more issues to the layout. Hence, the template will decide where the social buttons would be placed. Should you need to reposition them, you need to modify the theme file.

Most of these template settings has been re-located to the menu parameters. This allows you to have greater flexibility when it comes to having different layout setups on different menu items just like Joomla article does.

Sounds bad to me. So I should manually edit the html within the theme files, but what about updates? It would be overwritten, so I should clone the theme?

Hey Marco,

You can store your custom theme files in your current template, example :

If you would like to modify something on this file :

JoomlaFolder\components\com_easyblog\themes\wireframe\blogs\entry\author.php

So you have to override this file in your current template location.

JoomlaFolder\templates\yourCurrentTemplate\html\com_easyblog\blogs\entry\author.php

Hope this will helps.

Arlex Wong wrote:

Hey Marco,

You can store your custom theme files in your current template, example :

If you would like to modify something on this file :

JoomlaFolder\components\com_easyblog\themes\wireframe\blogs\entry\author.php

So you have to override this file in your current template location.

JoomlaFolder\templates\yourCurrentTemplate\html\com_easyblog\blogs\entry\author.php

Hope this will helps.

I made it but nothing happens...

Hi Marco,

May I have your joomla backend and FTP access instead so we can take a closer on your override file?

Hi, I can send you the backend access but not the FTP.

For the override, I cloned the file blog.item.php found in the bubble template folder, and I put it under /templates/<mytemplate>/html/com_easyblog/blogs/entry

Hi Marco,

Hm. Without FTP access its quite hard to test the issue on your site. May I know if you edit the original blog.item.php inside bubble themes folder will the change appear on the frontend?

Yes I did, but nothing changes...the buttons always appear at the bottom. I also tried to clear cache.

The weird thing is that within the theme there is still code that uses the settings you have removed in the last version, such as:
if( $system->config->get( 'main_socialbutton_position' ) == 'bottom' )

Hi Marco,

May I know what easyblog themes you are using currently? Can you also provide us with the screenshot of the things that you want to modify so that we can try it in our local instance?

Yes sure, it is bubble. I just wanted to have social buttons below the post cover image, before the text. In the old versions of EB, it was as easy as changing a parameter in the global settings. Very sad about some new changes in EB 5!

Hey Macro,

I am sorry that delay of this reply,

I've tried to access in your Easyblog settings page, but i hitting this :

	You are not authorised to view this resource.

Can you provide us with your following detail?
#1. FTP access (if without this access we can't troubleshoot anything )
#2. Can you provide us the full path which file you customized?

Ok, I set up a ftp access. You can find in Site Details.
the path is /templates/templateatitech/html/com_easyblog/blogs/entry