Vanilla Wordpress plugin not working with 2.3

SongofHannahs

New to Vanilla. Just installed 2.3 on the server. And installed the Vanilla WP plugin to integrate the new forum with our WP site & comments, but it's not working at all. No discussion being formed based on a new post, and no comments passing over to the forum. Not seeing any noticeable errors in the log file. Any ideas on how I can troubleshoot this? Thanks!

vrijvlinder

Is the same result with the actual forum?

We need much more info, no one reads minds here. A link to the site and all of the information regarding your set up. Themes plugins and settings ... Please provide this...

Swennet

I found the WordPress plugin to be very buggy and poorly coded. You'll probably have to rewrite parts of it to make it work the way you want to.

Linc

@Swennet said:
I found the WordPress plugin to be very buggy and poorly coded. You'll probably have to rewrite parts of it to make it work the way you want to.

Painful to hear, but good feedback. I'll put it on the to-do list.

Swennet

@Linc Here's some issues I've experienced whilst using it.

1. Comment Integration cannot be completely turned off after having been turned on once (Even though the checkbox is unticked) I've had to delete this functionality from the plugin to stop it from inserting JS on every page that overwrites WordPress's native comment number with "No Comments".

2. Logout from WordPress does not automatically log out from Vanilla. I fixed this by adding this to my functions.php file.

   function vanilla_auto_logout() {
       if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
           $smart_redirect_to = !empty( $_REQUEST['redirect_to'] ) ? $_REQUEST['redirect_to'] : '/';
           wp_safe_redirect( $smart_redirect_to );
           exit();
       } else {
           wp_logout();
           setcookie('Vanilla', null, -1, '/');
           $smart_redirect_to = !empty( $_REQUEST['redirect_to'] ) ? $_REQUEST['redirect_to'] : '/';
           wp_safe_redirect( $smart_redirect_to );
           exit();
       }
   } add_action ( 'login_form_logout' , 'vanilla_auto_logout' );
   

3. The Widgets are painfully slow. I was scratching my head over why my front page was taking up 2 seconds of PHP processing time on every load. Eventually found out that it was because of a Vanilla widget in my sidebar. Disabling that widget reduced the load time to 0.5 seconds.

River

you can provide feedback here...

video here https://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/231823/#Comment_231823

https://wordpress.org/plugins/vanilla-forums/

other info

https://vanillaforums.org/discussion/30475/wordpress-plugin-and-vanilla

also some historical info

https://vanillaforums.org/discussion/25519/worst-install-for-wordpress-ever

https://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/205908/#Comment_205908

https://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/205897/#Comment_205897