Strange behaviour with easyblog templates
By marco deluca on Friday, 10 January 2014
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I dont get how easyblog templates work. I've selected a theme, for example "simplistic". Some menu items (ex. recent posts, tags, team blog) display the simplistic theme and toolbar. But other items (ex. categories, share story, dashboard) display the default blue theme/toolbar.

Is this a bug? Why are some views loading the correct theme and others not? In all cases, the div id="ebog-wrapper" does have the class "eblog-simplistic" so I dont get why the toolbar and theme switches from one to the other.

Thoughts?
Hello Marco,

We are trying to not mix between the blog's design and the dashboard. For instance, if a template club were to build a template for EasyBlog, they don't have to build the dashboard as well. The dashboard themes are meant to be purely for editors only
Mark
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Saturday, 11 January 2014 14:12
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Hello Marco,

The theme in EasyBlog does not really affect the entire layout. Some of them inherits from the default structure hence it looks pretty much the same To change the dashboard theme, you will have to actually configure it under the Settings > Layout > Dashboard area. There's a separate set of themes for the dashboard.
Mark
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Friday, 10 January 2014 22:08
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Hey Mark thanks for the reply. Yah I see how there are two different sections for templates, but this seems a bit messy to me. Is this intentional? I think there are two issues here. (1) is that you should only have 1 theme that affects all views, and (2) that its not consistent, in that some views are affected by a template but others are not. The latter seems like a bug.
marco deluca
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Saturday, 11 January 2014 02:29
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Ah okay I get it. It's not intuitive for the initial setup, but I get the point of themes for the blogs, vs themes/css for the component. I think its a bit rough around the edges though, for example - why is there a toolbar for categories, but no toolbar for tags?

Anyway, thanks for the reply. I'm just going to do my own CSS to make the changes I need.
marco deluca
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Sunday, 12 January 2014 07:54
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Thanks for the heads up on this Marco. There's actually a toolbar for tags in the dashboard too. Perhaps you disabled it from the back end?
Mark
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Sunday, 12 January 2014 13:04
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