'Vanilla as Wordpress comments' functionality—not using Wordpress

Marc905

Vanilla has that awesome integration that allows it to replace the standard Wordpress comments with a Vanilla topic. I'm running a site that doesn't run Wordpress.

I'd like to embed a Vanilla conversation below my content manually (instead of, for example, inserting a Facebook comments widget.)

Marc905

I was pretty tired when I wrote this. I supposed a better title would be:

Embed Vanilla Comments Outside of Wordpress?

That's what I'm trying to do and would love to do...

Marc905

I guess the functionality isn't presently available. It looks like my best course of action is to adapt the Wordpress Vanilla Forums plugin to suit my needs. I will keep this thread updated if I'm able to make good progress.

I found this nice little javascript code and it'll be my starting point

<script type="text/javascript">
var vanilla_forum_url = '<?php echo vf_get_value('url', $options); ?>'; // Required: the full http url & path to your vanilla forum
var vanilla_identifier = '<?php echo $post->ID; ?>'; // Required: your unique identifier for the content being commented on
var vanilla_url = '<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>'; // Current page's url
<?php if ($categoryid) { ?>
var vanilla_category_id = '<?php echo $categoryid; ?>'; // Embed comments in this category
<?php } ?>
<?php 
if ($sso = vf_get_sso_string()) {
   echo "var vanilla_sso = '$sso';"; // Single-Sign-On string.
}
?>
(function() {
    var vanilla = document.createElement('script');
    vanilla.type = 'text/javascript';
    var timestamp = new Date().getTime();
    vanilla.src = vanilla_forum_url + '/js/embed.js';
    (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(vanilla);
})();
</script>