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Hi.
I am trying out the Vanilla forums and for it to replace my comments system. I've a few questions.
How can I turn off the extra url text that having the
Replace your blog's native commenting system with Vanilla comments. enables.
For example pages now display this:
http://darkfloor.co.uk/ancient-methods-live-at-machine-whisper/#/vanilla/discussion/embed/?vanilla_discussion_id=0
When I would like them to remain:
http://darkfloor.co.uk/ancient-methods-live-at-machine-whisper
2nd question.
Once I go to the thread that is created on Vanilla from the Wordpress blog post, if I click the link of the post it loads it within the iframe rather than back to the page. How can I change this so it doesn't load the original blog post within the forum thread's iframe?
3rd question.
The blog posts on the Wordpress site have a featured image, is it possible to include this on the auto-generated Vanilla thread?
4th question, and this is a related one to the 3rd one.
Rather than just displaying the link and the excerpt of the Wordpress blog post, is it possible to include all of the blog post?
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Answer 1: You cannot change the URL because when commenting you are basically sending information from one domain(blog) to another domain(forum) and # helps in doing that.
From my experience (http://www.gtricks.com/google-tricks/search-realtime-google-twitter/#/vanilla/discussion/embed/?vanilla_discussion_id=0), it does not effect SEO. In all, you do not have to worry about this.
Answer 2: I think that a known problem with embedded forums. But the bug is already fixed in new vanilla version. https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/commit/b0f56fba21119b4ab7bbaf4bdee8096ebbc0163c
Answer 3: Yes, its possible, but you have to make some changes your own or hire some vanilla developer for you.
Answer 4: Wouldnt it be bad for SEO? Duplicate pages? However its possible
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Hi aery. Appreciate the comments.
I was using the most recent version of Vanilla when I posted this a few days ago.
Question 1. It's the massive url using Vanilla generates on my pages. If the comment box is being displayed via iframe then why does it need it in the address bar. Is there some way to mask it so that it looks like
http://darkfloor.co.uk/ancient-methods-live-at-machine-whisper
and not
http://darkfloor.co.uk/ancient-methods-live-at-machine-whisper/#/vanilla/discussion/embed/?vanilla_discussion_id=0
Question 2. I'll look into that fix in the version I have installed. And see if there is a more recent version.
Question 3. Great.
Question 4. Well it wouldn't be duplicate pages as one would be the original blog post, and the other the forum thread. That way if people are reading the thread on the forum they get the whole post rather than just a snippet. This is how my previous/current forum (MyBB) works. It hasn't affected SEO as far as I can tell.