Post to Vanilla from Wordpress

circuit

Has anyone come up with a way to create a new Vanilla thread when a post is created in Wordpress?
At the minute my users can post to the Wordpress blog or the Vanilla forum, and we are getting a lot of duplication between the two.

Stash

circuit, I would like this as well. It would be cool to basically be able to replace Wordpress comments with a Vanilla discussion, all neatly bundled under a "Wordpress Blog" category which has them listed in post order (WallPhone created an extension for this I think, but it currently won't work just on one category IIRC).

circuit

yeah, that is exactly what i'm after. would it really be that hard to modify the extension to post in one category?

Stash

Hard for me

WallPhone

'fraid I know nothing of wordpress.

As far as the extension, it sorts discussions based on the creation date rather than the last active date. The way it works is kind of a cheap hack now.

It isn't easy to mix both sort modes on the discussions page, but it could be made to sort differently if you were to view a category page directly. I'm going to re-write it so will keep this mixed sort in mind to see if it can be done.

Stash

TVM WallPhone

Creede

I've been double posting all my blogs to vanilla too, trying to use it for all discussion. It's a lot of extra work, I would love if it were automated more.

Stash

I'd be great wouldn't it?

makeupwords

Which extention did WallPhone create already?

Stash

If you click on a user's name in any comment, you get taken to their profile page. On that page all the extensions that user has created are listed and on WallPhone's, you'll see Chronological

squirrel

I'm looking for this same thing. Since it doesn't seem to exist, I'll try my hand at coding it. I think the answer is in the XML-RPC ping that WordPress will send whenever you post. I imagine a PHP script that does the following: 1. Drop the XML on the floor (the actual contents are useless). 2. Query the wp_posts table for the most recently updated post. 3. Query the wp_postmeta field to see if that post has a custom field called 'vanilla_discussion', or some such. 4. If there is no 'vanilla_discussion' for that post, generate a new Vanilla discussion with the same user ID (if you have WP and Vanilla sharing a users table) or some other pre-selected user ID. 5. Add a custom field 'vanilla_discusison' to the WP post with the permalink to your new discussion. Then you just tell WP to ping your auto-discussion script whenever there's an update, and tweak your WP theme to properly consume the 'vanilla_discussion' field. No need to touch any WP code. Actually this technique could work equally well with any other non-WP blog that can be made to send XML-RPC pings.

cpontiveros

So would there be anything that would work with Textpattern as well?

makeupwords

@ [-Stash-] I've used that add-on from WallPhone, but does that add a Vanilla discussion when a Wordpress article is posted? That is what i'm trying to do. I guess when I read this the first time I thought the extention being refered to was something other than Chronological. Thanks though.

Stash

Oh no, the complete extension that you want has not been created yet, although I was merely referring to a piece of the puzzle that would be useful in creating it

squirrel

Okay, I'm almost finished. Is anyone interested in helping me test for, say, a week before I release it into the wild?

I wrote it for WordPress 2.1 but it should work for 2.0.X also.

Creede

I'm game.

circuit

creede, it's finished now and it's called janine... you can find it by searching the forum

Creede

thanks, I'll put it on my to do list.