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Crossposting in both directions…

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10:10 pm
19 Feb 2008


DreamKeeper

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I have Simple Forum set up to crosspost my blog posts to the
forum.  I have recently had several users
request that I also enable them to crosspost in the other direction, from forum
post to blog post.  So, if I crosspost
one of my blog posts to the forum and they reply to the post on the forum they
want their replies to also show up as comments on the blog post.  Also, when a comment is posted to the blog
post they want it to show up as a reply under the forum post.  I’ve had more than one person ask me if I can
do this and I have searched the forum here and it doesn’t look like Simple
Forum will allow you to do this.  My question
is how difficult would it be for me to manually add the code to allow this to
happen?  I’m not super literate with PHP
but if I can be pointed in the right direction I may be able to add the code
myself to make this happen. If it's too difficult to crosspost both ways is there a way to just use simple forum in place of the  default blog commenting system?

 

Thanks…

11:22 pm
19 Feb 2008


Yellow Swordfish

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Peterborough, England

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Let's deal with the last question first. It's easy enough to turn off comments in WP. So - as someone else was talking recently about doing, you can turn off commenting, cross post to the topic and then direct people to the forum topic for the comments/discussion.


As to cross posting every post and comment to each other I rather suspect this would have minority interest. Why duplicate evrything? But thats subjective. The forum posts are saved in the file sf-post.php. In there you will find the code that creates the blog post. It would not be that hard to put code in to create a comment should you wish. Tnere are also hooks in the commnenting system I believe that would alow you to do the opposite. Take a look at the WordPress Codex, find the Developers section and look up the API.


V3 of the forum also has a new hook that you can use on every save of a post which has the post content passed to it. A good place to send that content on should you wish to do so.

11:31 pm
19 Feb 2008


DreamKeeper

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Thanks for the info Andy…  Maybe I will wait for v3 and try to implement something then.  I thought the same thing about it basically being duplicate content, but there have been a few people that have asked me if I can implement this so for some reason they think it would be useful.


Thanks again…



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