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clarkwinkelmann

whisperwow have you disabled "Sign up" on Flarum's Admin > Permissions page?

Can you list or show screenshots of where the sign up link is still present? The option to "Only allow WordPress login" should hide them, but if other extensions add more links I might have to add more code in my extension to remove those as well.

whisperwow

clarkwinkelmann I checked and the "Sign-up" option was Closed, so I set it to Open now.

I'd still like to hide the Sign Up link in the following extensions that I am using. Following are some links to screenshots.

Welcomebox

https://share.getcloudapp.com/NQul9D1n

Login2seeplus

https://share.getcloudapp.com/yAu1e2DO

clarkwinkelmann

whisperwow it seems like those 2 extensions should simply check whether registration is enabled on the forum before injecting registration links on the page.

If the authors are unresponsive I could take a look at submitting PRs to get that changed but it should be an easy fix by the authors.

whisperwow

clarkwinkelmann Hi Clark. I've never used a Premium extension before and I followed the Extiverse instructions to get your WordPress integration working, but now I can't access Composer anymore.

I'm using the Terminal program on my Mac and used to be able to log in SSH via that utility using my Cpanel password. Now the password is no longer accepted and I've changed it in my WHM hosting and I still can't login to Composer anymore.

Do I have to do anything different now to login to Composer now that I've installed your Wordpress integration extension? Do I have to include other variables besides my normal Cpanel password like the API key generated from Extiverse? I'm confused.

whisperwow

clarkwinkelmann Hi Clark. The author of the Login2seeplus doesn't seem to be responding to my posts in his extension thread. You had mentioned PRs...what is that and is there anything you can do to get that changed as you suggested? Since my forum is for songwriters, I'd rather make the posts private only for registered members as many songwriters are paranoid about their songs being stolen in public forums. They probably won't participate if their song ideas and music are made freely available for anyone in the public to view.

clarkwinkelmann

whisperwow no, the extension shouldn't cause such an issue.

The extension doesn't write any file to disk, only to the Flarum/Wordpress databases. And certainly not elsewhere on the filesystem.

Unless the webserver runs as root even a malicious Flarum or Wordpress extension shouldn't be able to change your SSH settings or your shell user password.

I don't have any experience with cPanel. If I was locked out of a VPS with the password no longer functioning I would boot the VPS with a recovery image to reset it, like DigitalOcean offers. If you are able to change the password but the problem is not resolved, maybe you also configured some sort of public key, IP whitelist or other SSH settings, or a cPanel/server update bricked something?

Maybe cPanel offers a web console that allows you to run Composer commands directly from the browser as an alternative?

If you are able to login but the Composer command shows an error, please share the error message.

whisperwow

clarkwinkelmann I was able to get SSH access again by creating and using an SSH key pair. Took a little while to understand what I needed to do, but I did it. Don't know why the regular Cpanel password didn't work though.

whisperwow

Any further thoughts on how I can hide the Signup links from the "Login2SeePlus" extension? @clarkwinkelmann You had mentioned something about PRs. What does that mean?

luceos

whisperwow a PR is short for Pull Request. It implies that a developer offers changes to an extension by offering to merge these changes into the code repository.

Even if such a PR is never merged by the original author, the developer offering these changes can easily publish a new extension with the suggested changes under a different name.

A developer, like Clark and others, usually make pull requests and superseding extensions out of their own interest or based on commissions. In case you want to commission the changes you need, you can open a discussion under the services tag.

whisperwow

Thank you for the explanation @luceos !

whisperwow

When configuring the WordPress Integration comments section, I accidentally selected "Custom Values" and now the names of the tags are no longer displayed to select. How do I get that setting back or how do I find out the tag ID values in Flarum so I can select the right tag I want my blog posts to start threads in?

clarkwinkelmann

whisperwow if you refresh the admin page, the dropdown should appear again with your custom value added to it. You should be able to select another value from the dropdown and save.

If that doesn't help, you can try editing the kilowhat-wordpress.comment_tag_ids value in the settings able. The value to store is the tag id value. If you didn't delete the first tag on your forum, you can set the value to 1 and then you'll be able to change it again from the admin panel.

Please let me know what happens when you refresh the page. There might be an issue I'm not aware of.

clarkwinkelmann

Version 1.7.4 - September 13, 2022

Fix iframe incorrectly showing 1 total comment despite no comments having been made (fix will apply to new comment threads, existing threads will fix themselves upon first comment)
Fix Flarum discussion list showing 1 less reply than actual count
Fix iframe header layout on Flarum 1.5
Fix reply composer being off-center if the iframe is larger than 1000px
Add class name to username pick modal
Tweak some texts and styling in admin panel
Make health check errors translatable
Compile javascript with Webpack 5

The extension was confirmed working on Flarum 1.5 / Wordpress 6.0.

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prosurfer

I'm interested in moving to Flarum and purchasing this plugin. I love that it shows a forum discussion under the news story! Perhaps this is too specific of a question, but I was wondering if there would be further integration features in the future. For example, are there any plans to allow a list of the latest topics to be shown in an iframe on the front page of a Wordpress site? That way we could draw in users to the forum and making topics from the front page.

clarkwinkelmann

prosurfer absolutely! It's been a while since I've added new features (apart from compatibility with more login plugins) but I'm planning to add more!

You're thinking of showing regular Flarum discussions, not those created by Wordpress, is that correct?

Technically this wouldn't require to be a Wordpress-specific feature if it works with an iframe. The same iframe could be used by any website that wants to showcase their forum.

What I could do is implement this kind of feature as a Wordpress widget to make it one-click, and maybe cache the data in Wordpress so it can be immediately rendered. I'll add this to my list of ideas 👍️

hrvoje_hr

prosurfer For example, are there any plans to allow a list of the latest topics to be shown in an iframe on the front page of a Wordpress site?

You can do that using RSS, you can display discussions in any order from any tag anywhere on your WP site.

prosurfer

Thank you for the quick response! Yes, showing regular Flarum discussions on the Wordpress front page.

Also another question. My website is currently using an old Xenforo and Wordpress integration plugin. Our Wordpress login is only used for news writers and editors, which is a small group of people compared to the thousands of users we have on Xenforo. For your plugin, would every single forum user get a Wordpress account? Or is your plugin setup in a way where most users just use Flarum and then if they want to integrate with their Wordpress accounts they can?

clarkwinkelmann

prosurfer with my extension, Wordpress becomes a new social login option. You can then decide if you want it to be the only option, or to keep other login options (regular Flarum password login). You can even use FoF OAuth and other Flarum social logins together with Wordpress login. But I know most customers use Wordpress as their main account or they have an existing userbase from when they used Wordpress comments so they usually add social login directly to Wordpress, and then make Wordpress the only login method for Flarum.

The extension will not automatically create Wordpress users. If you make Wordpress the only login method and the users don't have a Wordpress account, they will have to create one manually first. They will then automatically be connected to the existing Flarum account that shares the same email.

If you only want to enable Wordpress login for convenience for your writers, I would suggest keeping the regular Flarum login for your other users. You could use custom CSS and/or Linguist extension to hide, move or rename the Wordpress login button to say "Writer login" or something like that. The Wordpress login is not required to comment on the Flarum comment threads for the Wordpress posts.

I hope this clears things up! Don't hesitant to ask if you need more details.

prosurfer

clarkwinkelmann

Sorry I guess I'm still a bit confused. Right now I have an active forum with a bunch of users and we also have a separate Wordpress installation for maybe 20 writers. I guess my questions are:

Does this plugin link the 20 Wordpress users to their corresponding Flarum accounts? So that when they create news stories in Wordpress, the discussion threads are created under their Flarum accounts?
Do regular forum users need to know this integration exists? It doesn't make Wordpress accounts for them, right?
Do regular users need to do anything to be able to post under the Wordpress stories, other than be logged in to their Flarum accounts?

I guess I just need this plugin to link the few Wordpress accounts to the corresponding Flarum accounts, to host a Flarum discussion under the Wordpress news story, and for Flarum users to be able to comment with their Flarum accounts without ever touching a Wordpress account or login.

clarkwinkelmann

prosurfer the two features offered by my extension are currently 100% separated.

The "Comments integration" automatically syncs all posts made on Wordpress to Flarum. Users post comments using their Flarum accounts. Every user interaction happens on the Flarum side. An iframe allows browsing the comments from the Wordpress posts, but that's still just Flarum being embedded. The authors of the Wordpress posts don't even need to be registered on Flarum for this feature to work. All discussions are created under a single Flarum username which you can configure in the extension settings (by default it's the admin user, but you can create a "virtual" user to use instead if you prefer).

The "Login integration" configures Wordpress as a social login for Flarum, and nothing else. If your users are not doing anything that requires being connected to Wordpress, you don't have to use this feature.

I am planning to add a feature where the real post author on Wordpress could be synced as the discussion author in Flarum, but this is not implemented at this time.

linc

clarkwinkelmann I am planning to add a feature where the real post author on Wordpress could be synced as the discussion author in Flarum

Have you considered having WordPress users connect from Flarum instead of vice-versa? I once built this for Vanilla Forums, but I readily admit it had some limitations, like requiring they be on the same domain for cookie access, because it wasn't proper SSO. Anyway, this seems more like @prosurfer's use case and is how I'd want to use a CMS with my community.

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