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

phenomlab

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phenomlab

@baris @julian does this plugin still work on NodeBB 1.19.3 ? I've not published an article for some time (last one was before the 1.19.3 upgrade which worked fine). I now get

No publish to NodeBB button, and certainly no comments

Any ideas ? All previously created posts seem to work fine. As a test, I created a new text only simple post, and that does not work either - same issue.

phenomlab

@baris @julian any thoughts please ? Would really like this to work

julian

@phenomlab yes, it should still work, we still use it for our blog, which is on WordPress now (as of late last year)

What version of the plugin?

phenomlab

@julian Latest version available.

phenomlab

@julian @baris this is still an issue for me in the sense that the error message remains the same as in my previous post.

I'm curious if anyone else can reproduce this, or is experiencing a similar issue ?

julian

@phenomlab Hmm... can you access the blog comments config page in the ACP? If it doesn't exist, then it suggests the plugin isn't running or didn't start up properly...

phenomlab

@julian yes, the page works. Previously created blog articles with comments are being displayed. As an example, if you look at https://content.sudonix.com and review any articles apart from the latest (about gradients and colors - this is the only one that doesn't work) you'll see what I mean.

<baris>

Can you post the output of db.objects.findOne({_key: "blog-comments"});

phenomlab

@baris response seems to be NULL

Also, I attempted to perform a complete reset

db.objects.deleteMany({ _key: "blog-comments" });

Which resulted in

{ "acknowledged" : true, "deletedCount" : 0 }

Something doesn't look right here. I'd expect the delete statement to be more than 0 ? The existing blog post comments are also still intact.

<baris>

@phenomlab Are you on the correct database? If db.objects.findOne({_key: "blog-comments"}); is NULL none of the blog comments should work. That object holds a mapping from blog id to topic id on nodebb side.

phenomlab

@baris Sorry. My fault. I forgot to select the NodeBB database

See below

db.objects.findOne({_key: "blog-comments"});
{
        "_id" : ObjectId("619b94d1bd1e82aef790fb9e"),
        "_key" : "blog-comments",
        "61768dda84686c09dddd1ef2" : 132,
        "6176a31a84686c09dddd1f0d" : 133,
        "6179569c84686c09dddd1fa7" : 134,
        "6176d2ca84686c09dddd1f95" : 135,
        "6176d21884686c09dddd1f88" : 136,
        "6176c0f684686c09dddd1f73" : 137,
        "6176bd7e84686c09dddd1f59" : 138,
        "6176b78f84686c09dddd1f22" : 139,
        "61768e6f84686c09dddd1efa" : 140,
        "61768ad984686c09dddd1eea" : 141,
        "617689a484686c09dddd1ebf" : 142,
        "6176893584686c09dddd1eb6" : 143,
        "6176873384686c09dddd1eae" : 144,
        "61a8ac37c2aaf679e63d3336" : 152,
        "61a8add7c2aaf679e63d3346" : 153,
        "61a8b08ac2aaf679e63d335d" : 154,
        "61a8b14fc2aaf679e63d336b" : 155,
        "61a8b842c2aaf679e63d337b" : 156,
        "61a8cd79c2aaf679e63d338e" : 157,
        "61a8d13ac2aaf679e63d339d" : 158,
        "61a8d1bec2aaf679e63d33ac" : 159,
        "61a8d29bc2aaf679e63d33c6" : 160,
        "61a8d318c2aaf679e63d33da" : 161,
        "61b35c493606679963e1d2fb" : 167,
        "61b38b413606679963e1d30b" : 168,
        "61b3a0e93606679963e1d38c" : 169,
        "61b3a1fe3606679963e1d3a0" : 170,
        "61b3a40d3606679963e1d3b0" : 171
}

<baris>

So the blog comment with the error has the id 6219049e2afd527be4dcf698 and it isn't in the blog-comments mapping. Which means the link between the blog post and topic id is broken. If you get the topic id for that blog post and add it manually to blog-comments it should be fixed.

phenomlab

@baris Thanks, but I'm not totally familiar with MongoDB syntax. Could you provide an example ?

phenomlab

@baris said in [nodebb-plugin-blog-comments] Blog Commenting Engine (Ghost, Wordpress widget):

So the blog comment with the error has the id 6219049e2afd527be4dcf698 and it isn't in the blog-comments mapping. Which means the link between the blog post and topic id is broken. If you get the topic id for that blog post and add it manually to blog-comments it should be fixed.

Actually, let's step back a bit here. It's "broken" because I was unable to establish the link in the first place. I created a new blog post just now, and that behaves the same way. So it's not "missing" - it was never there in the first place!

<baris>

When you publish a blog post there should be a button to publish it to the forum AFAIK. This code should execute https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments/blob/master/library.js#L159-L171 and create a topic in nodebb and link the blog post to the nodebb topic. You can put some console.logs in that function to see if it gets executed. If the new blog post is missing from blog-comments object it is likely the blog post wasn't published to nodebb or there was an error when publishing it.

phenomlab

@baris Yes, this is how it used to work, and now suddenly, it doesn't

phenomlab

@baris said in [nodebb-plugin-blog-comments] Blog Commenting Engine (Ghost, Wordpress widget):

When you publish a blog post there should be a button to publish it to the forum AFAIK.

The issue here is that there is absolutely nothing. It's blank. If you inspect the HTML, you can clearly see the DIV, but it's contents are empty despite the JS being also included. So, the upshot here is that it's not possible to even post ! Below is an example

You'll see the DIV is there, but there, but you can't do anything

Now compare this to one that does work without issue...

phenomlab

Ok, so after reading up a bit, I took the plunge and created the key association using the below steps

Created a new post in NodeBB, and then recorded the ID (in this case, 244)
Logged into MongoDB and ran the below update statement

db.objects.update({"_id" :ObjectId("619b94d1bd1e82aef790fb9e") },{$set : {"6219049e2afd527be4dcf698":244}});

This created the association between the blog post, and the NodeBB post, and now it seems to work as intended, although creating the post manually seems to add a phantom comment which doesn't actually exist

There is clearly an issue with this plugin. It works, but only if you actually create the association manually in the database, which of course isn't optimum. In my testing, this plugin seems to think the association already exists so doesn't ask you to create the link, which leads to having to complete the steps above.

In this case, I'm using Nodebb 1.19.3 and Ghost version: 4.34.3

<baris>

Do you see https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments/blob/master/public/templates/comments/comments.tpl#L79-L91 the publish markup when there is no association?