After mooSocial is freshly installed, you will need to integrate YouTube Data API library from Google APIs to your community site if you plan to use the Video plugin. It is needed for sharing and displaying YouTube videos on your social network. Otherwise, you will receive a “Youtube API key is invalid” error when trying to share a Youtube video. We will need to obtain a Google Developer Key (or API key) from Google and save this key in Admin Dashboard – System Settings – Integration – Google Developer Key.

Go to https://console.developers.google.com to enable YouTube Data API Library and obtain an API key credential for your project. Login with a google account and create a new project if necessary. Once you are in your selected project, go to Library and select YouTube Data API then click Enable. Your YouTube Data API Library is now enabled, go to Credentials, Click on “Create Credentials” and chose “API key”. Copy your newly created “API key” and paste in the Google Developer Key section. Click “Save Settings”. You will now be able to share and obtain contents from YouTube when sharing videos from its website.

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This tutorial shows you how to change text phrases shown on the landing page of the Default theme. We will change the phrases highlighted in the red box to the phrased highlighted in the orange box or to anything you’d like. Visit mooCommunity for more how-to and support.

Frist, we would need to get the file “default.po” from your web server. It is located in app/Locale/eng/LC_MESSAGES.

Use any text editors to open and edit this file but make sure it can be saved in its original format with .po extension. We recommend using poedit, notepad++ or sublime text.

In edit mode, locate the phrase you would like to change and input your changes in the quotation mark of its msgtr string. Be sure not to change the original text in msgid string. Make sure you are familiar with Gettext system for proper syntax and format before making changes.

Save default.po file and upload it back to your web server after all changes have been made.

Reload your site or open it in a new browser to see changes.

This concludes the tutorial, Please leave any questions or comment below. Thank you for watching!

Location of default.po: …/app/Locale/eng/LC_MESSAGES
Gettext System: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html

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This tutorial shows you how to change site logo, favicon and open graph image. If you share any item without an assigned open graph image (items without picture) from mooSocial to any “third party” sites such as Facebook or Twitter, it will use the site’s default og:image. Visit mooCommunity for additional how-to and support.

Changing the logo and og:image can be done in Admin Dashboard. Log in to Admin Dashboard and go to System Settings, Logo & OG Image to view current images. This is where you can upload your new logo and og:image. Click “choose file” to select your new images then select “Save settings”. The system will upload your images to the server and you will see the changes once they are successfully saved.

You will need file level access to your server to change favicon. Connect to your server and go to …/app/webroot to locate favicon.ico. Replace favicon.ico with your new icon image using the same name. Clear browser’s cache and reload your site to see your change.

For additional how-to and community support, please visit mooCommunity at https://community.moosocial.com/

Images’ size:
++ logo: 144×25 px
++ og:image: 1280×1280 px
++ favicon: 16×16 px

Note: Always make backup before making any changes. Allow time for “third party” sites to discard your old go:image for the changes to take place. Make sure to properly delete browser’s cache to be able to see the new favicon immediately.

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