Article and Forum Connect: XenForo and WordPress

Article and Forum Connect: XenForo and WordPress 1.2.9

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Is there any way to add featured image into XenForo post? I want my XNA image on my XenForo post. Is it possible?
Possibly, would have to just add it with an image tag at the start of the post, that's about all it could do.
And is it possible to prevent comments from the WordPress article from being transferred to the XenForo topic?
Not sure I follow this one, it'll only do this if you're using the Plus version (with the XF addon) and would need to be turned on. If you have a thread linked, why would you not want the comments to be added to the XF thread? Posts in the XF thread will be pushed to WP so you'd end up with half the replies missing.
 
If you have a thread linked, why would you not want the comments to be added to the XF thread? Posts in the XF thread will be pushed to WP so you'd end up with half the replies missing.

I don't want WordPress and XenForo to be dependent on each other. It feels better to keep them separate from each other.
 
I don't want WordPress and XenForo to be dependent on each other. It feels better to keep them separate from each other.
That's what I'm confused about though because that's how it works by default, and native comments requires the Plus addon and needs to be explicitly turned on.

The plugin will override the comments template and will create XF posts via the API, the only time it will render the native WP comments template and create native comments is if you're using the Connected WP/XF users integration method, and have the "Use native WordPress comments" option enabled, but this requires Plus. Otherwise, by default it completely bypasses WP comments and XF is the source of them.
 
Quick Question -
I see the wordpress posts allows for the XenForo Thread widget.
However, wordpress pages does not all for the XenForo Thread widget.

Is there a work around with the paid version?
Does iframe only work on posts, or does iframe allow for pages functionality?

Thanks for the help.
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So this isn't a widget for the front end, this is just the meta box on the post composition page that you use to configure the thread when the post gets created. The UI you have here is just WordPress letting you control which meta boxes display when you create a new post.
 
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Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "widget"...

It's only posts that are supported with the iframe, the WP post is linked to the thread and it iframes the comments. There isn't currently support for any integration with pages between WP and XF.
 
Thanks for the response @mattrogowski

Got it. Yea - I need the forum to integrate with my wordpress pages.

I'm no developer, but considering how similar Wordpress Pages are to Wordpres Posts, I'd assume it would be possible.

I guess the problem is that Wordpress does not allow for comments on pages like it does for posts?
I wonder if I downloaded some sort of Wordpress plugin to allow for comments on regular pages.
I wonder if I can simply iframe in the forum to my wordpress pages.

LMK if you have any food for thought.
Thanks again.
 
I wonder if I can simply iframe in the forum to my wordpress pages.
You would be able to do that theoretically, yes.

The plugin only deals with posts as it creates the associated thread, and as you say pages don't have comments - even if comments were added though the plugin wouldn't attempt to create a thread, or an associated page node either.

But the way the threads are framed is it just passes a query string (in_iframe=1) which forces a specific theme if you have one set, and hides a lot of the page elements (header, footer etc), and it would work in principle on any page, there might just be some elements that needs to be hidden on other pages. So if you had a page node in XF you could probably embed that in WP manually by just setting the iframe URL to be the page node URL with in_iframe=1 at the end.
 
The free WordPress plugin will be yes, the Plus version won't be currently. However only the free WordPress plugin is generally available.
 
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Hey everyone, and hello @mattrogowski -- hope things are going well over at Audentio/TH!

I am playing with the article and forum connect for XP->WP, but we are trying to only use it to sync our users from XF to WP (and/or vice versa) ..so that registered members of our XF installation are able to login to our Woocommerce store, without needing to make a new account. I don't foresee us every pushing thread type content to our from WP/XF. Strictly a need to have user sync.

It doesn't seem like the free version fully does that? Or maybe I did not pay enough attention to the documentation, but it appears the PRO version does?

Any insight you can give would be appreciated. Thanks so much!
 
Thank you 🙂

The Plus version doesn't support a sync as such, it just allows you to use a WordPress login to link to your XF account, but it's only designed for use with commenting.
 
Would it be possible for someone to create a tool that could cross-sync XF and WP logins so that no matter where someone 'signed up' both systems held the account information? And if someone were willing to undertake that task, can an estimate be provided? I host both on the same domain, and server.

@mattrogowski I would love to have your team for it, you may be a little out of my available budget, but if at all interested, I'd love to discuss it more, and I firmly believe it would have some good commercial applications for you as many people still try to utilize XF for the community backend, and WP for their homepages front end.

Appreciate any thought or consideration you'd give. ❤️
 
The free WordPress plugin will be yes, the Plus version won't be currently. However only the free WordPress plugin is generally available.
After installing and activating WordPress plugin and entering forum URL I only get a page with: Initial Setup | API Key wizard and nothing else. Nothing happens when clicking either of the two links. Could this be due PHP 8.3 (since using Xenforo 2.3.3)? Thanks.
 
After installing and activating WordPress plugin and entering forum URL I only get a page with: Initial Setup | API Key wizard and nothing else. Nothing happens when clicking either of the two links. Could this be due PHP 8.3 (since using Xenforo 2.3.3)? Thanks.
Can you take a screenshot of it? The tabs in the WP config section should just toggle with javascript. Haven't tested the plugin with PHP 8.3 but shouldn't make a difference as long as WordPress is working and the page loads. Do you have javascript disabled in your browser? It's either that or the javascript file hasn't been uploaded.
 
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Would it be possible for someone to create a tool that could cross-sync XF and WP logins so that no matter where someone 'signed up' both systems held the account information? And if someone were willing to undertake that task, can an estimate be provided? I host both on the same domain, and server.

@mattrogowski I would love to have your team for it, you may be a little out of my available budget, but if at all interested, I'd love to discuss it more, and I firmly believe it would have some good commercial applications for you as many people still try to utilize XF for the community backend, and WP for their homepages front end.

Appreciate any thought or consideration you'd give. ❤️
I think XenForo has been trying to implement this first party? We would be open to it but every time we choose to build something they just replace it immediately (eta: on a xenforo timescale, that is). I apologize, I normally would be happy to.
 
To clarify, we have no plans whatsoever in the near, medium, or long term to do any kind of synchronisation with WordPress. Even less so after recent events (the WP Engine drama).

You probably ought to let this go, Mike, or you'll never be able to work on anything ever again.
 
To clarify, we have no plans whatsoever in the near, medium, or long term to do any kind of synchronisation with WordPress. Even less so after recent events (the WP Engine drama).

You probably ought to let this go, Mike, or you'll never be able to work on anything ever again.
It's a top request though on the suggestions page which is used as a pseudo roadmap. It's not worth the risk, sorry.
 
My DMs are always open if you wish to discuss anything. It's been a long time. Dare I say long enough that it might be worth putting the past behind us?
 
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