benedictcollins

If a blog is running JetPack you can comment on a post by entering an name and email address, or you can ‘sign on’ to your WordPress account ( and Facebook etc.) and post a comment using these credentials.

This plugin requires you to login to a local account associated with the blog, but not with a wordpress account.

I can use Oauth and call https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1.1/me which gives me a response with
Display_Name, email, profie_URL and avatar_URL, but these details can’t then be used to post back a comment.

I have amended the plugin so instead of calling user_info to get this for the locally logged in person, I then use the details (above) I get back from WordPress, and this will work OK, but it’s not very neat.

It would be better to have a solution that has the wordpress.com account login option as well as the Facebook login option, then allow posting back of comments using these credentials, so you don’t need to have a local account on the blog at all.

Just extending the API to offer more login options and not requiring a local account.

Hi Ali,

Appreciate you looking into this.

Thanks

Ben

After looking at this for a hours and posting a question, I found the issue.

I added realised that ‘success’ means it just got a valid response, but the response could be an error message so I amended success to be.

success: function(response){
if (response) {
console.log(‘got a response’);
console.log(response.status);
console.log(response.error);

And found the obvious mistake of using ‘comment’ as a parameter instead of ‘content’

It’s not working.