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

fczuardi

I am using Ghost v0.5.8 and the required APIs that this plugin expects are not publicly accessible, my workaround was to monkey-patch the embed.js script in a very ugly hackish way, basically removing the ajax calls to the API and using a simple markdown with just the link to the post as the initial topic post on nodeBB, here is the gist:

https://gist.github.com/fczuardi/72a5103b5c1f0ba87eb3

if (data.isAdmin) {
        //var adminXHR = newXHR();
        //adminXHR.open('GET', '/ghost/api/v0.1/posts/' + articleID);
        //adminXHR.onload = function() {
                //if (adminXHR.status >= 200 && adminXHR.status < 400) {
                        //var articleData = JSON.parse(adminXHR.responseText),
                                //markdown = articleData.markdown.split('\n\n').slice(0,2).join('\n\n') + '\n\n**Click [here]('+articlePath+') to see the fu$
    var markdown = '\n\n**Click [here]('+articlePath+') to see the full blog post**';
    var title = $('.post-title').text();
    document.getElementById('nodebb-content-markdown').value = markdown;
    document.getElementById('nodebb-content-title').value = title;
                        //document.getElementById('nodebb-content-title').value = articleData.title;
                //} else {
                        //nodebbDiv.innerHTML = 'Welcome ' + data.user.username + ', <a href="/ghost">sign in to Ghost</a> to enable the publish button.</a>$
                //}
        //}
        //adminXHR.send();
}

The file lives under nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments/public/lib/embed.js

I've also made a blog post in Portuguese about how to install NodeBB and this plugin to be the comments system of a Ghost blog.

The solution is not clean, you have to go through all your posts and click the green button to make the initial topics on nodeBB, displaying an error json in the browser (but the thread is created anyways) and nodeBB will crash almost every time you create the new topics, but all this hassle is hopefully one-time-per-post only, so it is something I can live with for now.

I suggest people waiting for the clean solution to subscribe to the Ghost bug https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/4181 and the nodebb-plugin-blog-comments bug https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments/issues/17 to track the updates, or even beter, to submit a nice pull request to this plugin.

Eva Raposo

Which is the last compatible version from ghost that can manage the plugin?

fuzzmz

This post is deleted!

psychobunny

I've just released v0.3.0 of this plugin:

Fixed quite a few server crashes (especially when publishing)
Compatible with NodeBB 0.6x+ and Ghost 0.5.10
Added tags support for Ghost

EDIT: Updated OP

Charly86

@psychobunny
I've recently upgraded to NodeBB V0.8.0 and I encounter a wordpress comment plugins problem.
When I'm on wordpress, I still can view comments and respond to them, no problem, but when I created a new blog entry and wanted to create the entry on nodeBB but when I click on the button "Publish This Article to NodeBB" I got
{"error":"unable to post topic"} in browser return page
Do you think this can come from V0.8.0 update ?
thanks for your help

psychobunny

Can you post the error on nodebb server?

Charly86

@psychobunny
I launched ./nodebb dev but once launched it does not give me any error as soon as I click on publish button in wordpress

I put the full trace in case (and yes once started I clicked to publish ;-))

NodeBB v0.8.0 Copyright (C) 2013-2014 NodeBB Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
For the full license, please visit: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

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the browser windows is
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hope this help

Charly86

@psychobunny

Anyway, as a temp solution, I digged into the code but was unable to find what I needed, so maybe you can help me.
I wanted to try this (sure it should works)

I Create a new post on my nodebb forum and I get the database postID
I create a new Blog article on my wordpress forum and get ArticleID

Where do I put the link between both (I can do it manually inserting value in database), I think I just need to put NodeBB postID in wordpress database (near it's ArticleID), but I didn't found where. Any ideas ?

oH, just to let you know, my wordpress blog and my nodebb community are hosted on same VM (not same fqdn)

Thks

Charly86

@psychobunny
Oh, got a workaround, I really need to sleep more than 4 hours a night, the table was in front of my eyes it's in nodeBB database table blog-comments, just needed to add into this a new entry with key='blog post ID' and value='NodeBB topic ID'

In Wordpress database I get the post ID going to admin panel/posts then leaving the mouse on post link and looking the link in browser status bar
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or with this mysql query on wordpress database to list them all

SELECT  post_date, ID, post_title, guid, post_status, post_type  FROM wp_posts
WHERE post_parent=0
ORDER BY `post_date` DESC

To find the NodeBB topic number into NodeBB, just create a topic then in Forum then find the post in the forum and leave the mouse on post link and looking the link in browser status bar
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I've done it with Redis Desktop Mananager
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In case it can help

overlawled

Experiencing this issue on Wordpress as well.

Charly86

@overlawled
Not sure if the problem comes from NodeBB upgrade or wordpress upgrade. Would be cool to have this fixed

psychobunny

Is it related to this issue?

New Wordpress JSON API · Issue #20 · psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments

The JSON API wordpress addon recommended by this plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-api/) is rather outdated, and does not work on some blogs running WordPress 4.0+. Is this plugin compatible with the WordPress JSON API bundled w...

GitHub (github.com)

I haven't used WP in a while so I'm not up to date with their changes. If not can you submit another issue?

watomsk

Can this plugin work even if Wordpress and NodeBB are in different servers (DO droplets), or do they have to be installed in the same server?

Charly86

@watomsk
Looking at the architecture, I'm pretty sure it should work on different servers

Danny McWilliams

@watomsk said:

Can this plugin work even if Wordpress and NodeBB are in different servers (DO droplets), or do they have to be installed in the same server?

Yes, this worked for me, different droplets on same domain. Currently it links a WordPress install with a NodeBB forum both on separate domains though on the same droplet.

psychobunny

Updated blog comments plugin to 0.4.3

Updated for NodeBB 0.8.x
ACP page redesigned
Fixed bugs with publishing and CORS errors

watomsk

I have a small issue with the plugin. It was working fine, and now for some reason new Wordpress articles won't display the button to create a thread for the article in NodeBB, but existing comments on Wordpress articles already published to NodeBB seem to work fine.

Is there anything I can do to make the publish-to-nodebb button appear again?

Thank you

psychobunny

Sorry, I missed this. Does downgrading this plugin work though?

npm install [email protected]

Just want to make sure its not a WP upgrade that made a difference and not the plugin

Charly86

@psychobunny
which version you want me to test ?

psychobunny

You're having this problem as well on latest WP and plugin?