[nodebb-plugin-blog-comments] Blog Commenting Engine (Ghost, Wordpress widget)

a_5mith

@art it only posts a snippet, there's a link to read more after the first paragraph or so.

a_5mith

Can't seem to get this working. Not getting any option to post it from my wordpress install over on koding.

psychobunny

Hmm, are you logged in as admin on your NodeBB? Also check your console when you refresh your WP article, and let me know if you run into any errors

a_5mith

@psychobunny
Ok, realised my error...

Didn't change your.nodebb.org to my own website, now I have.

Think it may be because Koding can't write to apache.

New Errors:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'className' of 0 wordpress.js:89
GET http://a5mith.kd.io/api/get_post/?post_id=1 404 (Not Found) wordpress.js:166XHR.onload wordpress.js:166
Unable to access API. Please install the JSON API plugin located at: http://wordpress.org/plugins/json-api

I have the plugin installed.

As an additional bit of feedback, comma delimited may run into issues further down the line, as it's not abundantly clear that if I have 10 blogs, but only 1 of them should go into a different category. If I'd have to do 9 comma delimited categories of where the first 9 go, then 1 for the last, or if it will post to them both. May be worth using a similar form to baris RSS plugin. So each blog has it's own fields.

When I click Publish anyway, i get

Can't set headers after they are sent.
at ServerResponse.OutgoingMessage.setHeader (http.js:689:11)
at ServerResponse.header (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:595:10)
at ServerResponse.send (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:143:12)
at ServerResponse.json (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:229:15)
at /home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments/library.js:153:10
at Object.Topics.post (/home/a_5mith/35hz/src/topics/create.js:89:11)
at /home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments/library.js:135:11
at /home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:592:17
at done (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:135:19)
at /home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:32:16

psychobunny

The second error is happening because it can't access data found at:
http://a5mith.kd.io/api/get_post/?post_id=1

You said you installed the JSON API plugin, but did you activate it? (I'm actually not sure if you need to activate it)

a_5mith

@psychobunny Yepp, activated, even went in and activated all the parts of the plugin, to make sure it wasn't that.

I'll delete it and try again. It's possibly koding at fault. I'll throw together a quick droplet and test that way.

Ok, got this working on Digital Ocean, had the same error. But this plugin won't work if you use post_id rather than pretty permalinks. I couldn't change this on koding as wordpress didn't have write access to htaccess. However this now works on Digital Ocean.

Thanks a lot.

psychobunny

I'm working on a new version that will be cross-compatible with any CMS, etc. It won't be for a while because I'm a bit busy with the new theme and stuff, but yeah, I'm glad that you figured it out

EDIT: I'm not 100% sure what you mean tbh, I only had a chance to test it out on my own WP blog. So if you don't use pretty permalinks, this will not work?

a_5mith

The default permalink in Wordpress is postID, when you try to post to nodebb, it errors out at title too short (3). It seems to only take the ID in that case, but most people use proper permalinks anyway.

It's also rather difficult to rebrand. but it's a good plugin, so I'll let you off, I guess.

psychobunny

haha right. I saw your issue. Will look into it at some point

a_5mith

@psychobunny No rush, it works, I'm happy.

psychobunny

it works

Well that's a refreshing change.

psychobunny

Updated this plugin to allow you to use NodeBB's category and author information rather than ghost/WP's, ex:

? Offline

@psychobunny, excellent work. This makes my intended usage schema perfect.

fuzzmz

It's strange, I can't get this to work with Ghost as it seems that they changed the way the API works. The placeholder API documentation says that it should return posts with status published for calls with NoAuth.

I am stuck on the "sign in to Ghost to enable the publish button." page.

The GET call to /ghost/api/v0.1/posts/22/ returns a 401 Unauthorized, with the response {"type":"error","message":"Please Sign In","status":"passive"}

In the meantime I opened an issue on the nodebb-plugin-blog-comments Git repo as well as submitting a pull request to enable protocol relative links in the comment embed scripts to stop displaying mixed content warnings when the blog is served via https.

psychobunny

afaik, I've always had to be signed in to publish. I'm assuming that if you're signed in it does work? thanks for the PR btw

EDIT: nvm, read your issue, I guess this is a problem on our end then - time to upgrade our blog to v0.5

fuzzmz

@psychobunny the problem is that I am signed in when that message appears. Going to spin up an instance of Ghost 0.4 (the same that you're using on the nodeBB blog) and try that. From what I see the API responses have changed between 0.4 and 0.5 (which I'm currently running).

psychobunny

yeah, looks like it might be an easy fix actually

fuzzmz

@psychobunny glad to hear that.

I also stumbled upon a bug when testing with that Ghost v0.4 instance. If you delete the thread in the NodeBB instance the blog embedded comments section still thinks it has a thread in which to post comments. Any way to manually unlink the two after purging a thread from the forum that is linked to a blog post?

Feomathar

@psychobunny said:

Not today. Ghost has a long way to go in terms of development - if you see their ACP you can tell that they are missing a lot. And more importantly, Ghost is currently single account only; they do not have multiple sign-ups yet.

When the time comes, I'm down for writing a deeper integration

Hi I'm new to the NodeBB and I'm interested in the current/future state of "ghost comments" integration?
I'm asking because multiple user support has been "finally" added this month to the Ghost 0.5

The thing is I would like to design a theme for Ghost and NodeBB with this integration in mind

fuzzmz

@Feomathar the problem right now is that the Ghost API isn't exactly finalized/available for public consumption (heck, there isn't even any official documentation available ), which may make things a bit difficult to implement/mantain.

@psychobunny, I forgot to ask if contributions to the plugin are welcome, so I just assumed that it being on GitHub and public means that I can spam you with PRs :shipit: