By Aikaterini Koutsouflaki on Friday, 25 January 2019
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Hello

Is it possible that we update EasySocial component but keep the themes untouched and how? Today i received a message with title "Templates update available" that says somewhere that...

"For sites that are still running or choose to stay prior to EasySocial 3.0, it's advisable not to upgrade your template."

Does this mean that if we have a highly customized template based on your previous versions and want to keep it, we are not able to upgrade EasySocial?

Thank you for your answer in advance.
Hey Aikaterini,

Are you referring to the themes in EasySocial or the Joomla template? If you are referring to Joomla template, which template do you use currently? We are actually referring to the Charm, Office and Echo template.

If you are referring to the theme overrides for EasySocial, it is advisable that you rename the folder /templates/JOOMLA_TEMPLATE/html/com_easysocial/ before the upgrade. As soon as the upgrade completes, you can rename it back and if you hit any errors, you just need to update your theme files.

Be advised that this is a major upgrade 2.x to 3.x and we have introduced and simplified the structure quite a bit in this release. I would strongly suggest that you test this on a development environment first.
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Friday, 25 January 2019 17:52
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Another issue is that even if i set the modules to display on es-dashboard-aside position... nothing displays.

Can you please advise?
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Friday, 25 January 2019 18:20
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It will appear unless you have template overrides for the dashboard which did not have such position. Please rename any template overrides that you have, and if the problem still persists, please provide us with the access to the site and we will check on this issue
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Friday, 25 January 2019 18:32
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Forgive me for coming back all the time with new questions. Can you please tell me where we can set the buttons that show above the story form to show by default instead of having to click in the story text form in order for the buttons to show?
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Friday, 25 January 2019 19:17
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You need to edit the file /components/com_easysocial/themes/wireframe/story/default.php and change the following line,

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<div class="es-story <?php echo $fromModule ? 'is-expanded' : 'is-collapsed'; ?>" data-story="<?php echo $story->id;?>" data-story-form data-story-hashtags="<?php echo implode(',', $story->hashtags); ?>" data-story-module="<?php echo $fromModule; ?>">
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To,

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<div class="es-story <?php echo $fromModule || true ? 'is-expanded' : 'is-collapsed'; ?>" data-story="<?php echo $story->id;?>" data-story-form data-story-hashtags="<?php echo implode(',', $story->hashtags); ?>" data-story-module="<?php echo $fromModule; ?>">
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By the way, we are prioritizing our support for users who are encountering problems with the upgrade and if your questions is regarding tweaks, please do submit a new ticket as we will need to prioritize the issues that customers are facing first.

Thanks for understanding.
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Friday, 25 January 2019 23:25
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