Lone Wolf
Well-known member
But ... when you View the WP article ...
(1) will the xenforo comments appear below ?
(2) will the number of xenforo comments appear on the wordpress page ?
You'd do the same thing on the WP article. Have a button/link to the forum thread at the end of the article but it wouldnt tell you the number of comments.
In theory even that would be possible in the form of a micro-widget. By that I mean a small button/block which reads the number of replies to the thread and then displays them as X number of comments. I dont have any idea how to achieve that but Im guessing it would work on a similar principle to the latest threads/whats new widgets that already exist.
A lot of big sites require you to press a button/link at the bottom of an article to see the replies, so this is no different. It's not the ideal solution but it's the most sensible option until we can get proper integration.
The big issue with proper integration is that it will always remain a pipe dream unless you go for an integrated forum/cms solution like vb4 (which I'm aware is terrible). Even if it became possible to use XenForo threads to show replies to WordPress articles/blogs, the system would be too high maintenance.
Why?
Because either XenForo or WordPress would make sure that the system breaks every time there is a new update. It's not in either companies interest for their software to enter into a slave/master relationship with the other. They would both prefer to be the alpha software and your main solution.