Topic-icon Wondering how to get my JomSocial homepage back...?

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13 years 10 months ago #25095 by frasur
Hi Alex
Another problem. I hope this is a simple one:

Since installing JFBConnect AGAIN, my JomSocial homepage has disappeared. I've disabled the JFBConnect modules but still cannot seem to get the homepage back. Any suggestions?

blooearth.com/community2

Thanks,
Frank
Joomla ver. 2.5.6 New installation
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13 years 10 months ago #25097 by alzander
Frank,
I can't really apologize for continuous improvements to JFBConnect. Facebook changes and bugs and enhancements are always being made, and we just try to improve things for everyone.

Obviously, you shouldn't loose functionality when you upgrade though. Can you go to Joomla's Global Configuration and set Error Reporting to "Maximum". Then, the blank page should have some information on what's preventing it from loading. Please let us know that error and we'll help how we can.

Thanks,
Alex
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13 years 10 months ago #25098 by frasur
Alex
I've set it to maximum and have no errors showing. Just the background of the page, the header, sidebar and footer. What I did at the install stage was to install Joomla, JomSocial, and the JFB. Could the problem be that I changed the name of the JomSocial page before previewing it? The other thing I'm thinking is to uninstall JFB, re-install JomSocial, see if the JS homepage shows and then reinstall JFB. What do you think? Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Frank
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13 years 10 months ago #25099 by alzander
Frank,
When I read your post, I thought you meant the page what blank/white, not just missing some content. I just went to your site, and can see the issue now. If I go to the About menu link, I see all the modules, but not the main content area (the article). The same is true for JomSocial and every other page I visit. If I simply append ?template=atomic to the URL, the content begins to show. That indicates that your template is not being told to render the component. Can you check your template to make sure that the following line is in there somewhere (and if you understand how, make sure it's in a place that will be executed):
<jdoc:include type="component" />

That's what renders the component output to the page, and it really just seems that that line isn't functioning with your current template. There's nothing in JFBConnect before, or now, that should alter the component output like that, but if you wanted to you, you can disable the JFBConnect system, user, authentication and content plugins. If that, and the JFBC modules are disabled, then JFBConnect shouldn't be modifying anything on your site at that poing. That should be just as effective as uninstalling it, but you're free to try that as well (you won't loose your settings).

Hope that helps, but keep us posted on what you find,
Alex
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13 years 10 months ago #25100 by frasur
Alex
I tried exactly what you said and the page now displays the JomSocial stuff perfectly. Obviously it is the theme. I'd like to keep using the theme but am not sure where to place that piece of code or to look for it. Does it need to be hard coded into the theme?
Thanks
Frank
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13 years 10 months ago #25101 by alzander
Frank,
Glad to hear it's not our release.. but now, lets get you fixed up.

Did you create the theme yourself? Basically, that tag needs to display 'somewhere' in the output of the theme file. Usually, the whole theme is rendered from the /templates/<YOUR_THEME>/index.php file. However, if you're using a framework, the place where the main content area of your site is rendered could be anywhere. If you know your theme well, then what you're simply looking for is the HTML section where you'd want the main component area to render. Once you find that, simply insert the tag. It does *not* go in any PHP tags, it should look just like a normal HTML tag. Once there, Joomla will detect it and replace that tag with the output from the component for that page.

Hope that helps get you started. Unfortunately, I don't know every theme out there. If you are using a framework a club template, you may need to contact the developers of it.

Hope that helps get you going!
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13 years 10 months ago #25102 by frasur
Alex
The theme is actually "Big Easy" from WooThemes. I'll take a look at that index.php file and see if I can find where that chunk of code is supposed to be.
Thanks for your help on this one!
Frank
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13 years 10 months ago #25103 by alzander
Some themes actually have an option for "Show Component Area", or something similar. I've honestly never understood that setting as 99.99999% of all people would want to show the component area always, but you may want to look through the parameters for something like that.

Keep us posted, and good luck!
Alex
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