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

[A Former User]

@Peter-Zoltan-Keresztes I do and it works just fine.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

@AOKP Interesting, but I don't understand why I am having these issues.

[A Former User]

@Peter-Zoltan-Keresztes maybe share your config.json and also the settings you use for the plugin in the ACP.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

@AOKP Here is my config.json:

{
    "url": "http://z0z0.me/comments",
    "secret": "somehash",
    "database": "redis",
    "redis": {
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "port": "6379",
        "password": "somepass",
        "database": "0"
    }
}

and here is the plugin setting in the ACP:

[A Former User]

@Peter-Zoltan-Keresztes and how did the code looked you embed into your Ghost installation?

I assume that maybe you are facing a theming issue here. But we will see.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

@AOKP I am using the default Casper theme and I just copied the code from this post and implemented in the post.hbs right before the {{/post}} tag.

</aside>

<a id="nodebb/comments"></a>
<script type="text/javascript">
var nbb = {};
nbb.url = '//z0z0.me/comments'; // EDIT THIS

(function() {
nbb.articleID = '{{../post.id}}'; nbb.title = '{{../post.title}}';
nbb.tags = [{{#../post.tags}}"{{name}}",{{/../post.tags}}];
nbb.script = document.createElement('script'); nbb.script.type = 'text/javascript'; nbb.script.async = true;
nbb.script.src = nbb.url + '/plugins/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments/lib/ghost.js';
(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(nbb.script);
})();
</script>
<script id="nbb-markdown" type="text/markdown">{{{../post.markdown}}}</script>
<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view comments</noscript>

{{/post}}

[A Former User]

@Peter-Zoltan-Keresztes try to insert it right after the share section.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

@AOKP said:

@Peter-Zoltan-Keresztes try to insert it right after the share section.

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After a sleepless night where I have reinstalled everything. New VPS, new blog, new nodebb and I am back at square 1 where out of 15 posts only on 3 I was able to enable the comments. On rest I am getting in the logs the 31/12 08:10 [6749] - warn: [nodebb-plugin-blog-comments] Origin (undefined) does not match hostUrls: http://z0z0.me. It seam to me that nodebb cannot read the Origin header from most of the blog posts.

[A Former User]

@Peter-Zoltan-Keresztes had the same in my logs though and it worked as I showed you yesterday.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

Not sure what can I do. Right now I am using your exact same configs for node and ghost in nginx.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

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[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

The latest updates fixed all the issues I had on enabling comments on most of the ghost blog posts.

[overlawled]

Just a heads up for anyone else using this with Wordpress. After the latest update the categoryID variable in comments.php of your theme isn't optional. If it isn't defined publishing doesn't work.

[Hưng Thành Nguyễn]

Currently, I can't change the category id to another category. It's always posting to category id 1

[overlawled]

@Hưng-Thành-Nguyễn are you using Wordpress or Ghost?

[Hưng Thành Nguyễn]

@overlawled
Hi, I'm using wordpress

[hek]

I did a integration between forum.mysensors.org and my new open hardware sharing site https://www.openhardware.io using parts of the blog-comments plugin to allow commenting on each project.

From the forum side: http://forum.mysensors.org/category/30/openhardware-io
And from openhardware: https://www.openhardware.io/view/4/EasyNewbie-PCB-for-MySensors#tab-comments

But as we have to keep title/tags in forum in-sync with the open-hardware-site I had to create a new endpoint which besides creating, also updates the post each time someone published changes. The publishing/update request is sent from our backend.

Here is the interesting part of the code:

Comments.publishProject = function(req, res, callback) {
		var markdown = req.body.markdown,
			title = req.body.title,
			url = req.body.url,
			commentID = req.body.id,
			tags = req.body.tags,
			uid = xxx;

               if (req.body.token !== "XXXXXXXXXXXXXX") 
                      return res.json({error: "Unknown token"});
		Comments.getTopicIDByCommentID(commentID, function(err, tid) {	

			if (err || !tid) {
				var hostUrls = (meta.config['blog-comments:url'] || '').split(','),
					position = 0;

				hostUrls.forEach(function(hostUrl, i) {
					hostUrl = hostUrl.trim();
					if (hostUrl[hostUrl.length - 1] === '/') {
						hostUrl = hostUrl.substring(0, hostUrl.length - 1);
					}

					if (hostUrl === req.get('origin')) {
						position = i;
					}
				});

				var cid = meta.config['blog-comments:cid'].toString() || '';
				cid = parseInt(cid.split(',')[position], 10) || parseInt(cid.split(',')[0], 10) || 1;
				

				topics.post({
					uid: uid,
					title: title,
					content: markdown,
					tags: tags,
					req: req,
					cid: cid
				}, function(err, result) {
					//console.log(err);
					//console.log(err.stack);
					if (!err && result && result.postData && result.postData.tid) {
						posts.setPostField(result.postData.pid, 'blog-comments:url', url, function(err) {
							if (err) {
								return res.json({error: "Unable to post topic", result: result});		
							}
							
							db.setObjectField('blog-comments', commentID, result.postData.tid);
							res.redirect((req.header('Referer') || '/') + '#tabs-comments');
						});
					} else {
						res.json({error: "Unable to post topic", result: result});
					}
				});
			} else {
				topics.getMainPost(tid, uid, function(err, post) {
					if (err)
						return res.json({ok:false});

					var payload = {
						title: title,
						uid: uid,
						pid: post.pid,
						content: markdown,
						tags: tags,
						options: { tags: tags }
					};
					posts.edit(payload, function(err, returnData) {
						if (err)
							return res.json({ok:false});
						//errorHandler.handle(err, res, returnData);
						res.json({ok:true});
					});

				});

			}
		});

	};

[mesolithic]

Just wanted to point out that there are compatibility issues with the ns-plugin-ns-points plugin. The following error is thrown when accessing any of the posts on Ghost

error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'uid' of undefined
at nodebbpath/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-ns-points/app/filters.js:68:36

It worked once I disabled the points plugin.

[FDX]

@overlawled said:

Just a heads up for anyone else using this with Wordpress. After the latest update the categoryID variable in comments.php of your theme isn't optional. If it isn't defined publishing doesn't work.

@overlawled @Hưng-Thành-Nguyễn Could you try to set var categoryID = 0; or var categoryID = null;? Any falsy value should work.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

I have tried to use the plugin on multiple ghost platforms and it only works with the first blog entry. Anything special needs to be done?