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New WordPress post creates forum thread
It's been asked a bunch of times years ago. Now Vanilla integrates with WordPress smoothly using ProxyConnect, how difficult would it be to have a new thread created for each post on WordPress - thus using Vanilla as the comment system for WordPress?
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The problem is that the comments on the blog side aren't connected to the posts on the Vanilla side. So I guess that's what needs to be done... Wordpress and Vanilla need to share the same database for comments and posts, and it needs to happen through some php magic lol. Final piece of the puzzle left.
Even better, I think, would be a good Blog application that way the blogging functionality of Vanilla stays in house and more "integrated" with the overall Garden experience.
Of course, there'll always be users who want Vanilla to have a blogging system, and WordPress to have a forum system.
For the project that I'm working on - I just want threads to be created for posts. WordPress comments are disabled.
Thanks for your link though - think that's going to do what I'm after
1. Add a DiscussionID to the wp_posts table (on install)
2. On 'publish' event, if no DiscussionID is set, manually insert a Discussion into the database and put its DiscussionID in the post's record.
3. On article view, grab the discussion as an array of Comment objects. Use the comments.php template in your theme to loop thru each comment and display it.
4. On post comment, copy the new Wordpress comment into the appropriate Vanilla Discussion.
That's 95% of it handled with 3 hooks.
Doing it by RSS could create lag between publication and creation of the discussion.
vanilla needs a blogging system. I frown when i read the v2 blog due to the fact that its using wordpress instead of a vanilla alternative.
If wordpress integration is a highly sought after request, which it is, wouldn't It would make more sense to develop a blogging alternative to prevent the inevitable donut holes. Integration would be much easier anyways.
having to keep up with wordpress updates to ensure proxy connect/single signon stays functional .. bleh
We really really want to do forums and we want to do them well. Wordpress is a blog, and they do that well. If we focus on our product, and they focus on theirs, the end result is 2 amazing pieces of software.
If Vanilla Core wrote a blog, we'd have another application to write, debug and support. Our core forum product would suffer. If Wordpress Core wrote a forum, they would have the exact same problem. The end result would be 4 average piece of software (2 blogs and 2 forums).
Why?
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stumbled across this post while searching google... I realize it's almost 2 years old now, but any answers to this... a point in the right direction would be great, thanks!