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Does the Wordpress widget only work with paid forums?

RossPickeringRossPickering
edited May 2012 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

Hi, does the Wordpress widget only work with paid forums? I've just tried using it with my own hosted forum but get the error, "Couldn't find a Vanilla Forum at this url :/"

Thanks for your help!

Answers

  • 422422 MVP

    What is "the wordpress widget"

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  • RossPickeringRossPickering

    Hi, the "Vanilla Forums" plugin/widget for Wordpress. Thanks.

  • 422422 MVP

    According to the wordpress site , its open src

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  • RossPickeringRossPickering

    Hmm, that's what I thought...I wonder why the url is invalid then.

  • 422422 MVP

    No idea from the AMOUNT of info you have shared.

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  • RossPickeringRossPickering

    Well, that's about it...installed the forum, set it up, installed the plugin on WordPress and then attempted to set that up there, which requires the forum url - then after putting in the url, I get an error. The url being http://lakerholicz.com/forums

  • hbfhbf MVP

    Sounds like a configuration issue, not a code issue..

    You should try to get more debugging specifics. We are always willing to help but this is too vague to diagnose.
    go lakers.

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  • RossPickeringRossPickering

    Thanks for the reply. I would give more info but I'm not sure what else to give because it seems like a simple setup with not too many steps, which I have followed.

    It says in the plugin FAQ that you get the plugin from the "embed vanilla" page - that just links to Wordpress download site, though. Is that right? I'm just wondering if you're meant to be able to download a unique plugin of some sort for your Vanilla site, otherwise couldn't anyone embed your forum into their Wordpress site?

    Thanks!

  • x00x00 MVP

    if the forum is private or it doesn't have a means to reach i.e. curl it won't detect.

    grep is your friend.

  • RossPickeringRossPickering

    Thanks. The forum isn't private and the url to it is http://lakerholicz.com/forums/ - I've checked everything numerous times but I'm puzzled!

  • RossPickeringRossPickering

    Can anyone embed someone else's forum into their site, then?

  • RossPickeringRossPickering
    edited May 2012

    x00 said:
    if the forum is private or it doesn't have a means to reach i.e. curl it won't detect.

    Just doubled checked with hosting RE: curl and they said it's enabled.

  • ShadowdareShadowdare MVP

    Have you enabled the embed plugin on Vanilla?

    Add Pages to Vanilla with the Basic Pages app

  • RossPickeringRossPickering

    Shadowdare said:
    Have you enabled the embed plugin on Vanilla?

    Hi, yes it is activated on Vanilla. Thanks.

  • RossPickeringRossPickering

    Okay, I just disabled the plugin on Vanilla and enabled it again and that did it! Weird. But at least it's working now :) thanks for prompting me to head over there.

  • ShadowdareShadowdare MVP

    RossPickering said:
    Okay, I just disabled the plugin on Vanilla and enabled it again and that did it! Weird. But at least it's working now :) thanks for prompting me to head over there.

    You're welcome. If you need anymore help, don't hesitate to ask.

    Add Pages to Vanilla with the Basic Pages app

  • RossPickeringRossPickering

    Shadowdare said:

    RossPickering said:
    Okay, I just disabled the plugin on Vanilla and enabled it again and that did it! Weird. But at least it's working now :) thanks for prompting me to head over there.

    You're welcome. If you need anymore help, don't hesitate to ask.

    Thanks! It didn't embed at first but I just added the embed code from the Vanilla embed page into the WordPress embed page if that makes sense...I don't think it should make any difference though.

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