Comment AND Forum

[Marcotics]

Is there a way to still use the comment section and link to the forum, so users can choose to leave a quick comment like before, or dive into a discussion on bbPress?

[Nick]

To be clear, you’d like to have the standard WordPress comments and then share a link to an associated forum discussion?

[Marcotics]

@nickchomey Yes exactly. I thought it would leave the standard comment section alone as i kept the settings for comments unchanged (The Settings>Discussion>Allow comments part) and for your plugin used the `On the post page, show:
A link to the topic’ setting, but than my comment section disappears.

[Nick]

Sorry, that’s not possible. This plugin allows you to replace the comments with a forum discussion topic, which serves a similar purpose but also allows for much more. You can also choose on a post-by-post basis whether you want to use comments or discussion topic, but not both.

I actually don’t understand why you would want to have normal comments that are separate from a discussion topic and its replies. If it is a matter of preserving existing comments, there is a migration function built-in already.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Nick.

[Marcotics]

I have multiple tweaks for my comment section, that’s why i’d like to keep it.

Thanks for your time non the less.

[Nick]

I understand. If you have development skills, you could probably create your own snippet fairly easily that hooks into the end of the post creation process, gets the post details (id, name etc…) and passes it to the buddypress/boss forum topic creation mechanism (of course, you’d have to use a fixed forum for all of these post/comment forum topics) and pastes a link in the normal comments.

Though, given that that would be replicating a lot of the functionality of this plugin without leveraging the various settings and prompts in each post creation sidebar, it would probably be better to just try to modify the plugin to allow what you’re looking for (automatically/manually create forum topic upon post/page creation and paste a link in the normal comments). If you succeed with this, we’d be happy to incorporate it into the official code. But it’s not something that we’d be willing to investigate and develop ourselves.

Feel free to ask any questions to orient yourself if you choose to build something like this.