Embedding the forum in Wordpress, stuck!

peripatew

Hello!

I've been trying to figure this out, and I just keep scratching my head. I followed a tutorial from 2011, but that didn't seem to work at all. I tried using the Wordpress plugin as well, but the script doesn't seem to do anything on the page. I added the activity widget, and that seems to be working fine, I just can't get the forum to embed? I've been through what feels like every setting, but nothings happening.

Here's the embed page: http://ao.thriveym.com/discussions/
And here's the actual forum: http://ao.thriveym.com/forum/

I've enabled the plugin within Vanilla, installed and activated it in Wordpress, validated it. But no luck with it displaying.

Thanks for the help!

vrijvlinder

@peripatew The problem is the path is wrong so it won't load the javascript. If you use the browser extension Firebug, click on the missing area and choose inspect element, then you will see the html of the page , choose to view the scripts and you will see the error in red on the list.

This is why it will not work

http://ao.thriveym.com/discussions/ao.thriveym.com/forum/js/embed.js

The correct path to this file should be

http://ao.thriveym.com/forum/js/embed.js

peripatew

Thanks for the reply, sorry I over looked that, but after updated the script link, it's still not working: http://ao.thriveym.com/discussions/

vrijvlinder

try this, put this in your wordpress don't forget to ad the <> and the end tag /script:

script type="text/javascript" src="http:/ao.thriveym.com/forum/plugins/embedvanilla/remote.js">

just close the tags when yo paste it

peripatew

@vrijvlinder said:
try this, put this in your wordpress don't forget to ad the <> and the end tag /script:

script type="text/javascript" src="http:/ao.thriveym.com/forum/plugins/embedvanilla/remote.js">

just close the tags when yo paste it

I added that to the page, but it's still turning up blank? I have a pretty minimal install, with all the plugins disable but the Vanilla Embed?

vrijvlinder

This is still wrong :

http://ao.thriveym.com/discussions/ao.thriveym.com/forum/js/embed.js

you need to fix that path to

http://ao.thriveym.com/forum/js/embed.js

It will not work unless you fix this ok?

peripatew

Thanks again for the reply. I don't have that anymore? This is what I had when I last posted: http://d.pr/i/qPuo

Which still isn't working?

@vrijvlinder said:
This is still wrong :

http://ao.thriveym.com/discussions/ao.thriveym.com/forum/js/embed.js

you need to fix that path to

http://ao.thriveym.com/forum/js/embed.js

It will not work unless you fix this ok?

vrijvlinder

Until you fix the url path to the embed.js it will not work

peripatew

Hum. I did have the proper embed.js, as referenced in the d.pr image I linked.

However, after some more fiddling, I decided to remove the wordpress Vanilla Forum plugin, and that fixed the problem. Very frustrating! But thanks for sticking with me. It's very much appreciated.

kenjw

peripatew,

I have been having a similar problem. I have Vanilla installed and working well in localhost.
However with the WP plugin installed the WP Page will not recognise Vanilla as explained in the documentation.
Are you saying that if I deactivate and remove the Vanilla Plugin and the insert in my WP Page:
script type="text/javascript" src="http:/mywebsitesomething.com/forum/plugins/embedvanilla/remote.js">
I might get access to Vanilla OK?

Best Regards
kenjw

kenjw

See my post to Vanilla:
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/19914/vanilla-embed-in-wordpress-not-displaying-forum-in-page