[Plugin: LJ comments import: reloaded] Useless if your blog isn't in the root folder

Are you still interested in paying to fix this plugin to work in subfolder? I would do that work for you.

Thanks. I don’t really have the budget to hire someone to fix it for me. But if somebody created a premium plugin to perform this function (one that actually works) I’d be willing to pay up to $25 to use it, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

Oh, I got the idea now. Didn’t realize that WP have premium (paid) plugins. Will investigate in this direction and do the fix.

As you are updated to this thread, I will update it when I have done anything worth seeing.

Thanks for your response!

Seems like www.remarpro.com is not the place for premium plugins. Where do you often go for them? WpPlugins.com?

I don’t know about a central location for premium plugins, but I’ve seen developers selling them independently through their own sites. Gravityforms.com is a good example. There’s also Code Canyon, which is the script and plugin equivalent of Theme Forest.

Good luck!

Any news about that project? I’d be interested, too.

> Any news about that project? I’d be interested, too.

Not yet. Finding motivation ??

Do you have only the problem with root folder?

I haven’t even tried the plugin yet because my blog is very definitely not in the root folder. *g* I hope that will be the only problem, though … The LJXP plugin that has to be used in connection with this plugin works very well for me, at least. ??

I only came across this plugin today, and was disappointed about it not working if the blog is not in the root folder.

However, I seem to have come up with a fix, in that it is importing comments for me. It is an inelegent hard-coded fix, but very simple. It may be that it can be tidied up by someone else.

The problem is entirely in the lj_comments_import_js.php file, and in the last two functions.

The last function, lj_comments_adminpage_sync(), has a reference in it to

document.getElementById(“lj_sync_progress”).innerHTML = \'<img src=”/wp-content/plugins/lj-comments-import-reloaded/ajax-loader.gif” alt=”loading…” />\’;

Edit the img src to include your blog directory – for instance, my blog is in a directory labelled wordpress, so that would become:

document.getElementById(“lj_sync_progress”).innerHTML = \'<img src=”/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/lj-comments-import-reloaded/ajax-loader.gif” alt=”loading…” />\’;

Similarly the function before that, lj_comments_call_sync(need_to_handle_response) has two lines starting:

lj_comments_ajax_get(“https://&#8217;.$_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”].’/wp-content….

again change that to include the name of the directory – in my case:

lj_comments_ajax_get(“https://&#8217;.$_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”].’/wordpress/wp-content

This will get the plugin working.

I think you could probably improve my fix by using $_SERVER[“DOCUMENT_ROOT”] instead of $_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”], and then it wouldn’t need the blog directory added. But I’ve got comments working, so I don’t think I want to play with it too much – I’ll leave that to others.

Subsequent to my last reply, there are other things that need to be tweaked in a similar manner – i.e. to point to the right place for avatars.

But the above does actually get the comments into WordPress, which I think is a good start. If I find time to do any more playing with it, I will post an update.

Meanwhile if you look through the code for similar incidences to those I mentioned, you should be able to plug further holes yourself. Just don’t do a global cut and paste!