Announcement for IP.Board Comments for WordPress

Thanks. It is a separate server.

We would pay, so if you can do this, hopefully that is motivation for you. ??

If you need to reach us directly — forums @ JetNation.com

Thanks!

Max, no worries. It isn’t so much that I won’t do it, but that I’m not sure yet how to do it. I’ll have to ask around the IPB forums and take time to research the code and come up with a way to work around it.

As for the forum news author, could you make an option to make it the one with the same WP username?
It shouldn’t be hard, and it’s a simply way to “synchronize” even the authors.

Is it possible to chance the title link to go directly to the forum post?

For some reason when the link shows up in the shoutbox, it’s displaying as going to https://www.site.com/forum/post.php?/topic/title instead of https://www.site.com/forum/index.php?/topic/title How do I go about changing it from post.php? to index.php?

It’s not allowing me to edit my post, but I do have another question, how do I make it so that it only shows part of the article on IPB that way they have to click the link to read the full article?

Is it possible to chance the title link to go directly to the forum post?

I would also like to see this. Right now you need to go through two pages before you get to the forum post:

All Blog Posts -> Single Blog Post -> Single Forum Post.

I think it would be nice if you could go from looking at all blog posts, directly to the single forum post.

That, and it would be cool if a number would appear next to the Reply/Comments link that tells you how many replies there have been to a post. (Though, this isn’t as important as the forum link suggestion above)

Thanks for all of your hard work! =)

Haven’t had time to work on new code.

I think you can customize your themes however, to link straight to the custom forum link instead. ie. forum_topic_url

Add a new function to your functions.php, that will fetch the forum topic url for you if present, else will echo the permalink.

function the_forum_link( $post_id = null ) {
        $custom_fields = get_post_custom( $post_id );
        $forum_link = $custom_fields[ 'forum_topic_url' ];
        if ( $forum_link) echo $forum_link[0];
        else echo the_permalink();
}

Edit your theme, wherever you might have the_permalink(); you could replace it with the_forum_link()

Thanks!

Remotely Hosted Scenario
We can have WordPress post to the remotely hosted forum using XML-RPC from IP.Board after a few configuration setting changes on the forum side. It doesn’t look to be able to pull replies to a topic, so we couldn’t retrieve the forum replies as comments on WP. I’m not yet certain if it’ll return the url to the new forum post. So basically, it’d be a limited feature set. Still, it’s not too bad if we can cross-post the new WP post to the forum and have it link to the forum url.

Is there a way to make it so that it shows who wrote the article as well?

Any chance we can get a feature to have the post cut off after a certain number of words or maybe the 5th <p> or something and be replaced by a “…”? (Sorta like more in WP)

It’s not a big deal since it’s easy to do manually after the post is posted, but it’d be nice. We already have “Read the full story here”, might as well have them go read the full story there.

Thanks, and keep up the good work! Love the plugin!

Thanks. You could open class.ipbcomments.php and around line 146 change $wp->post_content to $wp->post_excerpt and see if that does what you need. I’ll add it to the todo list for a future setting.

I’m just wondering if my posts are showing up because I don’t think my questions have been answered but yet when someone else asked it, they got an answer. Just making sure my posts are showing for everyone else. =/

Great plugin btw!

PCK, I don’t know the answer to your post.php vs index.php issue, unless it’s something in an older version or the configuration settings aren’t right. It’s familiar to something we may have tried to troubleshoot in a previous version, on a previous page of this topic.