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[LPH]

I think I will buy this bridge, it looks really interesting.

Thank you for the compliment. Hopefully you find it helpful.

One suggestion:
Is it possible to connect the search of XenForo and Wordpress? A checkbos for "Search in Blog" or something like this would be great. An other possibility would be adding the tags to the discussion thread in XenForo so that this thread appears when searching for these words.

This is a great idea. If you register on the xenword.com site (www.tuxreports.com/community/login/) then you'll see a suggestion forum for the plugin. Feel free to post any other ideas too.

 

[Scharesoft]

This is a great idea. If you register on the xenword.com site (www.tuxreports.com/community/login/) then you'll see a suggestion forum for the plugin. Feel free to post any other ideas too.

Great that you like the idea I've created this thread in the suggestion forum.

 

[LPH]

2.0.2.01 Alpha Code Testing

This code is focused on cleaning up some of the widgets. In particular, the latest thread widget was interfering with XenReviews. This was fixed as well as code in a few other widgets was redone.

New Widget
A new widget was created for pulling the latest threads from a select forum. For example,
XenWord.com now has a widget showing the latest threads pulled from the 2.x support forum. It is displayed on the bottom right of this image.



This widget is for pulling from a single forum. I'm going to think about how to do an array of forums to enhance this widget.

 

[DoubleREW]

I saw that the default user page made by wordpress (home/author/username) is not there anymore probably because Xenword links every username on the blog to their forum profile, is there a way to bypass this and get the wordpress author page to work again?

 

[LPH]

I saw that the default user page made by wordpress (home/author/username) is not there anymore probably because Xenword links every username on the blog to their forum profile, is there a way to bypass this and get the wordpress author page to work again?

In /includes/xenword-users.php there is a function xenword_author_link(). Comment out that function and it should return to the default.

Someone asked if this could be an option to turn this redirect on or off. I'll see if this can be done easily.

 

[Divinum Fiat]

Andrej just sent me the link to this add-on. May I ask a couple of questions? I'm using Wishlist Member to protect my digital products within my WP site. And I'm using XF for the community portion. If I bridge the two, people will still need to register through Wordpress if they buy one of my digital products, which links with Wishlist. This client may be just a Wordpress client and never visit the forum at all. Or they may have come from the forum and then want to buy a digital product.

Will this add-on conflict with Wishlist Member in anyway?

Will you please post when you have a real live demo available?

Many thanks.

 

[LPH]

Andrej just sent me the link to this add-on. May I ask a couple of questions?

Sure. Ask away

I'm using Wishlist Member to protect my digital products within my WP site. And I'm using XF for the community portion.

Yes. I recall seeing your other posts. Unfortunately, the plugin would cost me $300 to even test on a multisite.

If I bridge the two, people will still need to register through Wordpress if they buy one of my digital products, which links with Wishlist. This client may be just a Wordpress client and never visit the forum at all. Or they may have come from the forum and then want to buy a digital product.

Actually, XenWord uses the login and registration of XenForo by redirecting all WP login and registration to XenForo.

Will this add-on conflict with Wishlist Member in anyway?

The latest XenWord 2.x series keeps the WordPress user roles and capabilities intact in WP. This means changes to a user role is done through WordPress. Other customers have stated their custom roles are working fine in WP with XenWord 2.x.

The biggest challenge I see right away is the lack of uniformity between the users on the WP side and the XF side. The plugin does not have code to associate users between the two but instead the XF user is copied into the WP user and usermeta database.

This means you would need to export all WP users into XF then clear out the WP user table. It would be quite a challenge to set this up correctly so that it ran smoothly.

Will you please post when you have a real live demo available?

Many thanks.

http://www.tuxreports.com is a network of over 60 blogs linking to XenForo through the XenWord bridge. If you go to http://www.tuxreports.com/xenword then you'll see 'featured thread' at the bottom of the home page. You'll also see several other widgets. The most important is the login widget which links the login and registration.

 

[LPH]

XenWord 2.0.2.03 Widgets

Yesterday and today was spent on improving a single widget, the forum listing widget. The category titles are shown in a select dropdown list. This narrows the forum list. Previously to this version, the admin would have to go to the XenForo side of the site, hover over the category and grab the node_id. The new code makes integration easier.

This video shows the forum listings widget in action.

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The key is the code behind the widget. This code will be expanded into other widgets as time allows.

 

[Scharesoft]

Nice feature, looks really interesting It's nice to see how you improve this addon!

EDIT: Now I bought a Lifetime License for XenWord.

 

[tekboi]

I tried using the latest version of xenword on my site (specifically the latest threads widget) and it didn't work. It also cause other plugins on that page not to show up. I might have done something wrong here, but until I figure out what's wrong, i'll just use the older version of xenword since it works just fine.

 

[LPH]

I tried using the latest version of xenword on my site (specifically the latest threads widget) and it didn't work. It also cause other plugins on that page not to show up. I might have done something wrong here, but until I figure out what's wrong, i'll just use the older version of xenword since it works just fine.

Would you please be more specific. What version do you mean "the latest" because 2.0.2 is focused on the widgets and I want to make sure they are working right. What didn't work ? What were the conflicts - what other widgets were you using ?

The biggest mistake people are making is not saving the new XenWord settings after doing an upgrade. Otherwise, I'm using 2.0.2.03 on my site and 2.0.2.04 is on a local server.

 

[Divinum Fiat]

Thank you, LPH, for the lengthy response. I've been pondering this and I may have to find another solution. I have a few hundred people in my Wishlist database that need access to their digital products. And a few hundred in the XF database that access the forum. To take the Wishlist members out and over into XF would probably cause some serious conflicts. Especially since Wishlist is connected to Paypal. I may have to find someone eventually who can build me a bridge that connects the three (WP+WL+XF).

 

[LPH]

Thank you, LPH, for the lengthy response. I've been pondering this and I may have to find another solution. I have a few hundred people in my Wishlist database that need access to their digital products. And a few hundred in the XF database that access the forum. To take the Wishlist members out and over into XF would probably cause some serious conflicts. Especially since Wishlist is connected to Paypal.

I agree. XenWord needs to be improved so that WP users and XenForo users are associated with each other rather than XF users copied over. Sadly, that code does not exist.

I may have to find someone eventually who can build me a bridge that connects the three (WP+WL+XF).

It would be quite an expensive undertaking. The cost of Wishlist, cost of coding time, and testing pales to the upkeep of WP code needed. Someone in your other thread suggested RSS feeds. This might be a place to start.

Warm regards.

 

[Divinum Fiat]

Thank you, LPH. You've been great. Yes, I've been playing with the RSS feed plugin. It's a baindaid job but may have to do for now. Thank you so much!

 

[LPH]

Two updates for this weekend.

2.0.2 changes
The 2.0.2.04 release continues to focus on fixing widgets. Unfortunately the widgets are not cooperating but the pull downs looked good. Two images are attached.

My goal is to work on the widgets again this weekend.

Shopping Cart Update
The Xen Product Manager is installed and working for all new purchases. I'm working on getting the purchases from the Easy Digital Download shopping cart transferred into XPM so all new releases will be available to license holders.

 

[LPH]

Shopping cart update
Orders from January and February as well as September through present are now in the new shopping cart. I appreciate those of you who already activated the new license system.

I'm starting to work on the March - August orders. The Xen Product Manager add-on is very cool Now I just need to figure out a way to add a support ticket area linked to the product manager. Well *after* I get all the past orders into the new system.

Annual to Lifetime License Upgrade
I was asked if there was a way to upgrade an annual license to a lifetime license. Would anyone be interested in this type of upgrade price? What would be reasonable? Currently there is a $30 price difference between an annual and a lifetime license. But since this is for orders for March through August then maybe the price should be different.

Please let me know you thoughts. If the interest is high then we can figure out something easy on the wallet.

 

[LPH]

WordPress 4.1 beta-2
Several hours were spent today working with the beta-2 version of WordPress. Actually I spent more than several hours but who's counting?

The editor account was failing. The permissions in the database looked correct, yet the new Visual editor was not loading properly for the editor account. All of the other roles were seeing the Visual editor properly. It turned out to be a different plug-in causing the issue.

This is why I always recommend disabling all WordPress plug-ins before deciding that XenWord has a problem.

The good news is that XenWord 2.x is holding up under the new WordPress version.

 

[LPH]

The release candidate 2.0.2.04 is available for holders of the developer license. This version is live on a production site and seems to be working well. If the new features hold after others pound on it then the latest changes can be marked as stable and everyone may have access to download the plugin very soon.

Changelog

• Code Change: Support for SSL. $protocol changed in xenword-users.php and xenword-avatars.php
• Updated Read This First section to include widget information
• Updated INSTALL-UPGRADE.txt instructions
• Updated Roadmap
• Changed all != 0 to > 0 (6 occurrences in 4 files)
• xenword_show_columns function: changed to canonical in xenword-thread-link.php
• show_link_thread_id function: changed to canonical in xenword-thread-link.php
• display_comments_in_wp: changed to switch
• Renamed widgets for consistency
• Tested with WordPress 4.1-beta2-30508 and 4.1-beta2-30527

 

[LPH]

XenWord 2.0.2.05 - Featured Forum Widget Working

Featuring a forum beneath a WordPress post is one of the features I've wanted for years. The coding has always been close but I disliked having to look up the forum ids. Now a basic widget is complete and works so the website administrator is able to place a widget in WordPress and pull XenForo threads from a select forum. The widget may be modified to give the look of the forum. For now, the code is hard coded to give an idea of the possibilities.

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[mypbaph]

hi! just have 2 questions before i purchase this bridge...

1. is this bridge valid only for 1 "pair" of wordpress & xenforo sites?
2. is there a guarantee that this bridge will not be "abandoned" in the future?

thanks!