CRE8 Social: EasySocial fork for Joomla 5.4+ and 6+
Refactored EasySocial component: Installer and component work on Joomla 5.3+, 5.4+ and Joomla 6+. Further updates will be released and supported.
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Installer and component work on Joomla 5.3.x, 5.4.x and 6.0
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All themes: code corrected
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Replaced old Joomla legacy calls
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Modules adapted, tested and working
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Plugins refactored and working
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Frontend views and -features corrected and functional
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Component can easily be installed over older versions
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Dashboard, stream, file-uploads and -handling revised and functional
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Various DB-queries adapted/rewritten
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Refined inst.-routine now installs all plugins successfully in Joomla 6.0
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Plugin ConverseKit included!
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Komento component included
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Refactored and improved video-handling, Bunny CDN implementation
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Installed languages remain active
Full Changelog
5.1.1 stable
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Feature
Additional fields for users, groups, pages and events: Linkedin, X (former twitter), YouTube channels, Tiktok, Instagram
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Feature
Link preview cache now honours links.cache.cleanup duration TTL, stale entries are deleted
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Feature
Stream / Gallery: per-device photo display limit default to phone=4, tablet=9, desktop=12
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Improvement
CB Migrator: custom fields now appear for mapping, fully functional
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Improvement
PHP8.5 deprecation fixes
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Improvement
Joomla 6 compatibility fixes, table-methods
5.1.0 stable
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Feature
WEBINARS: Initial release of the webinar group app (Jitsi, BigBlueButton, PlugNmeet) 🥳
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Feature
TRANSLATIONS: Replaced dead SI-URLs with GitHub raw downloads.xml endpoints and real Weblate-stats
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Feature
Klipy integration: Second Gif-provider Klipy integrated
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Feature
Toolbar module search now respects current language on multilingual sites
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Feature
Map Items in Stream are loading directly (without click) for OSM and Google Maps
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Feature
Delete video from stream also deletes video from cluster
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Feature
Delete audio from stream also deletes audio from cluster
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Feature
Following filter includes clusters groups/pages the user has joined now appear in the following stream filter
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Feature
Installer updates all modules core files automatically
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Feature
Remove abandoned story-photos from db + physical 24h after story creation on a per-user basis / on story post
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Feature
Remove abandoned story-photos once per day for any user / full site sweep, catches every abandoned account as well
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Improvement
Story-photos remain in unpublished state (invisible) as long as story form is not filled out completely
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Improvement
Stream portrait videos – properly sized and visible instead of collapsing to zero height
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Improvement
Video item page portrait videos – constrained width matching the stream card, not stretched full-width
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Improvement
Video mute state on the item page – survives scroll-away/scroll-back without being reset
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Improvement
Code cleanup ~80+ occurrences of jimport() calls removed
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Improvement
Joomla 6+ Filesystem compatibility system-plugin rewritten, compatibility.php added / native php functions
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Improvement
FontAwesome 6 further improvements, renamed some remaining FA5 instances
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Improvement
Story photo persistence – photos survive cluster/location switches in the composer
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Improvement
Text avatar font size – 64px → 118px for readable initials
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Improvement
Card listing uses avatar – getCover() → getAvatar() in card helper
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Improvement
Map size – min-height: 240px in Map stream items
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Improvement
Gallery in stream is now displaying nicely as grid
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Change
K2 userapp and K2-support removed
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Bugfix
Page-as default – viewas defaults to 'page' instead of 'user'
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Bugfix
Fixed pagination: object, router adapters (SEF URL builders) and controllers → views and template
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Bugfix
Alerts for new marketplace entries, new pages, new groups and new pages are now triggered correctly
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Bugfix
Task creation in the group app Tasks was not possible (only milestones) due to a typo
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REVERTED
Cover used thumbnail – $size → 'thumbnail' in cover table / REVERTED, quality issue, img looked too blurry
5.0.6 stable
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Feature
Video module: additional options display/hide category, user
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Improvement
Base64 decode security fixes (Akeeba AdminTools)
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Improvement
Module installer optimized obsolete module discovery
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Bugfix
Whole component: 28 swiper touch (mobile) scripts refactored as .js-files were faulty, test ok
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Bugfix
Search index: typo in table name #__social_cluster → #__social_clusters fixed
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Bugfix
Filter function for search results fixed
5.0.5 stable
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ImprovementToolbar module: Social adapter cleaned, synchronization with CRE8 Blog
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Improvement
Foundry library: adapted, code-improvements
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Improvement
Module installer doesn't create new instances but updates existing ones, clean-up of multiplied modules
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Improvement
Backwards-compatibility fix for some apps not adapted for joomla 5/6 yet
5.0.4 stable
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Feature
Option added to hide the profile header in video item view
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Feature
Code adaption to allow loading user-media in Blog media manager
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Bugfix
Corrected avatar crop function
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Bugfix
ConverseKit: added table use-statement alias
5.0.3 stable
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Bugfix
Links in invitation emails were incorrect
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Bugfix
Deprecation warning in Advanced Search for users fixed
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Bugfix
Missing use-statement added to /administrator/components/com_easysocial/includes/ad/ad.php
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Bugfix
Repost function in /tables/stream.php fixed
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Bugfix
Error during page creation on Joomla 6 corrected
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Bugfix
Photo module did not respect privacy settings
5.0.2 stable
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Revision
Removed obsolete "ENGINE=MyISAM" from .sql-files
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Bugfix
Corrected URL-segmentation for pages, currently active menu item is now taken into account
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Bugfix
Corrected URL-segmentation for groups, currently active menu item is now taken into account
5.0.1 stable
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Feature
Bunny CDN implementation v2 (additional webhooks etc.)
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Feature
Bunny Player v2
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Feature
Twitter → X: full rename in OAuth, UI, CSS, Icons
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Feature
+ Config. cover image height for users, sites, groups and events
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Feature
Passkey (Webauth) passwordless Login implemented incl. configuration for the users
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Feature
Start date for events: additional column (sortable) in admin backend
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Revision
Implementation of FontAwesome 6.7.2 (old .eot and .woff-files removed)
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Feature
Notifications for new pages, groups, events, marketplace-entries
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Revision
Integrated Kunena user app refactored to work with Kunena v7.0.2
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Revision
Re-Branding CRE8 Social: logos, icons, etc. (left com_easysocial for the sake of compatibility)
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Revision
Adapted Foundry Library (FontAwesome, Twitter)
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Improvement
Events are loading from every entity
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Improvement
Installer refactored and changed appearance
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Improvement
Code refactored for file-field (PHP compatibility)
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Improvement
Changed versioning for pkg_toolbar
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Bugfix
Toolbar notifications showed only date, no content
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Bugfix
Corrected frontend passkey-generation
5.0.0 stable
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Feature
Restoration of the module-manager in admin: no more api-calls to old si-server, unpublish-option
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Feature
Videos Mobile: Autoplay, User-Input (Pause) are now respected even if «Autoplay if in Viewport» is active, integrated player
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Feature
Debug for Videos (Option for Admin)
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Revision
Implemented own update-server/-logic
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Revision
Software Update Widget: corrected to work with new server
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Improvement
Extensions + component: versioning unified to be v5.0.0 → old modules/plugins can be detected easier
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Improvement
Obsolete update sources are removed
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Improvement
Blog in admin widget removed
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Improvement
Deprecated Photo-Resizer linking to SI removed
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Bugfix
Log: mail-warning in content-retrieval fixed (cron-hook)
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Bugfix
In some configurations/environment, user registrations failed, code corrections
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Bugfix
In some configurations/environment, user editing from the backend triggered an error
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Bugfix
With SEF-URLs in some languages, album-creation for groups/sites did not work
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Bugfix
Corrected logic error, which avoided albums-listing under pages/groups in certain settings (error was present since years)
1.4.4 stable
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FeatureConverseKit: Included Social-Login possibilities for Apple and Google
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Feature
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Feature
Implementation of a master switch → activate/deactivate alerts
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Feature
Mails have a footer to directly load alerts-configuration or trigger master-switch
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Revision
Improved Foundry Library
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Improvement
Finder plugins → code-revision
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Bugfix
Fixed some deprecation warnings in PHP 8.2+
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Bugfix
16.1. Fixed further deprecation warnings
1.4.3 stable
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Feature
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Feature
Additional Player-Options Autoplay, Autoplay on Viewport, Autoplay Muted und Loop Video
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Revision
Improved view for portrait mode smartphone videos
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Improvement
Implemented additional checks for copying and batch-creating events, now ALL fields' contents are copied.
1.4.2 stable (Maintenance Release)
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Revision
Some PHP 8.5 compatibility-improvements
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Bugfix
Installation process (for low-performance servers) reset due to problems encountered by several customers
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Bugfix
Fixed some deprecation notices
1.4.1 stable
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Feature
Refined frontend copyfunction-logic: copied events are unpublished and editable
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Revision
ConverseKit: optimized architecture, replaced injected module-loading of sounds-library through referencing
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Bugfix
Fixed further deprecation notices
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Bugfix
Fixed toolbar-login with email-address instead of username
1.4 stable
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Feature
Added copy-function for events in backend
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Feature
Batch-copy function (multiple events) added in backend
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Feature
Added copy-function for events in the frontend
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Improvement
Events: recurring events creation/update works now, all custom fields are written down correctly. This was never working in the original version!
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Bugfix
Fixed further deprecation notices
1.3 stable
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Feature
Refactored ConverseKit Plugin to work in Joomla 5.3+, 5.4+ and 6+ and included it
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Feature
Tested and included marketplaces-apps for users, pages and groups
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Update
Updated some library-files
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Improvement
All youtube-sharing links are accepted now (changed link-validation)
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Bugfix
Fixed Google auth deprecation notice
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Bugfix
Fixed further deprecation notices (dynamic property creation)
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BugfixCode error for toolbar module in backend fixed
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BugfixDoubling of the admin menu when additional “custom menu items” are active simultaneously has been fixed
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Bugfix
Corrected wrong path in the internal apps-installer
1.2 stable
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BugfixEasySocial conversations load in the toolbar module in Joomla 6+
1.1 stable
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Improvement
Included modernized, refactored Foundry-Library installing with the pkg_toolbar
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Bugfix
Fixed alert-error
1.0 stable
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ImprovementRemoved obsolete duplicated foundry-library from installer
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ImprovementTested under Joomla 5.4.x and 6.0.x without backwards-compatibility plugin → code improvements
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Test
Migration from Joomla 5.4.x to 6.0.x without deactivating anything ES-related → WORKS! 🥳
0.6 RC
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FeatureRefactored all Themes
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FeatureRefactored Toolbar
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ImprovementReplaced ALL old Joomla legacy calls
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TestPlugins tested and code improvements
0.5 Beta
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Feature
Admin-views and -modules adapted
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Feature
Event-, Group- Marketplace- and User-Apps and -Fields refactored and working
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FeaturePlugins refactored and working
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FeatureModules adapted, tested and working
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FeatureFrontend views and -features corrected and functional
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Update
Full theme wireframe with all functional parts refactored
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ImprovementVarious DB-queries adapted/rewritten
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TestComponent can easily be installed over older versions
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Test
Live and working on 3+ websites 🥳
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BugFix
Installer refactored to also install all Plugins as expected
0.3 Alpha
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Update
Installer refactored to work on Joomla 5.4.x and 6.0.x
0.2 Alpha
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Update
Component refactored to work on Joomla 6.0.x
0.1 Alpha
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Update
Component refactored to work on Joomla 5.4.x
This project is the result of the GitHub discussion here: https://github.com/DeeEmm/easysocial
To do
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Adapt additional apps
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Implement own update server
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Slight rebranding
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List in Joomla Extensions directory
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Remove obsolete custom ES db-layer