You can disable this plugin "Content - EasyDiscuss" from backend > extension > plugin.

This also seems to happen in Easysocial where the whole article is copied into stream regardless of setting in application.

Do you mean when you create a new Joomla article, it will fetch a stream in Easysocial?
If yes, you can disable this from backend > Easysocial > application > search for 'article' > disable it

Hope this help.

"You can disable this plugin "Content - EasyDiscuss" from backend > extension > plugin."
That plugin should allow me to show easydiscuss content in Joomla articles not the other way around?

"If yes, you can disable this from backend > Easysocial > application > search for 'article' > disable it"
I dont want to disable entirely, I just want to show a link for the new article, just not the whole article in the stream...

Like
New article posted to %Category%:
"%Article Title% (as a link)"

Posting a whole article to the stream is also just not great functionality...

As I thought, here is the description of the plugion you mentioned:
This plugin adds a discussion at the bottom of the article allowing the articles to be linked to EasyDiscuss

That is not what I am looking for and this is disabled anyway.

I want to stop Easydiscuss from generating new discussions from new Joomla articles.

Hello Gary,

I believe there are some miscommunications here. The plugin has nothing to do with the activity stream in EasySocial altogether. The plugin "Content - EasyDiscuss" adds a "comment form" beneath the article and when it does that, it automatically creates a new discussion on EasyDiscuss as well. Think of this like the forum discussions on macrumors.com

The activity stream in EasySocial however will still be generated regardless if this this plugin is enabled or not.

Mark,
You've jumped in to this and not read the original post.

It was Arlex who told me it was this plugin that was generating Easydiscuss posts, awaiting mederation, on the creation of a Joomla article. Clearly this was incorrect as I tried to inform him.

I am still trying to stop easydiscuss auto generating posts on new Joomla articles.

I am also trying to reduce the content created in the Easysocial stream on Joomla article creation to a link, nothing more, but that doesn't seem possible either. Presently it recreates the whole article and posts that to the stream ... I mean wtf.

Two seperate issues I know. Happy to create another issue just for the Easy social thing but thought they would be relatively simple questions with relatively simple answers. Didn't realise I'd have to spend an hour explaining the issue.

If you want to stop EasyDiscuss generating new discussion posts when a new Joomla article is created, you need to turn off the plugin "Content - EasyDiscuss". Turning this off will not affect how the stream on EasySocial works.

To reduce the content created in the EasySocial stream, you need to:

1. Go to the applications area at the back end of EasySocial and search for article, http://take.ms/75H07

2. Click on the app to configure it.

3. Set the number of text to appear, http://take.ms/lgk6S


To remove the content altogether from the stream, you need to:

1. Edit the file /components/com_easysocial/themes/wireframe/streams/articles/preview.php

2. Remove the codes below:

[gist]
<div class="es-stream-embed__desc t-lg-mt--md">
<?php echo $article->content; ?>
</div>
[/gist]