Premium WordPress Integration

jaclas

Thanks, one more question.
Is it possible that after a new post there would be a forum thread created, but below that post on WP there would only be a link to that forum thread, but without the comment content (not an iframe just an <a> tag)? This link would be with a description such as "Click here to discuss". And clicking would redirect (open a second browser tab) to the forum thread, where there would be a full discussion?

clarkwinkelmann

jaclas that's not a feature at this time, but I could implement it.

You could also change this locally by overriding the comments template in a theme or directly in my plugin. Only issue is that I don't think there's a way to build a permalink to the non-iframe page with the information available in WordPress. I would have to add a new endpoint to Flarum as well.

secondsky

Is it possible to prevent a user creation, so that only wordpress users can access the forum?

clarkwinkelmann

secondsky yes, absolutely!

If you select "Only allow WordPress login" in the Flarum extension, then you have full control over who can sign up or login from WordPress https://kilowhat.net/flarum/extensions/wordpress#only-allow-wordpress-login

clarkwinkelmann

Version 1.8.2 - September 16, 2023

Fix admin page breaking when other extensions try to customize the style of the header.

This fixes the incompatibility with Asirem Theme.

wessel-novacustom

Hello @clarkwinkelmann

First af all, great plugin! I saw your demo video and I was sold so I bought the subscription of your plugin :-D .

I did not manage to get it working yet, though. I get the error ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS when trying to login (Wordpress pop up). Removing cookies did not help. I think I have set up everything correctly, but still there must be something wrong. Maybe with Nginx, I don't know.

I have checked the Networks tab in Chrome Dev, it keeps redirecting from:

https://novacustom.com/forum/auth/wordpress?continue=1&token= + token

To:

https://novacustom.com/newlogin?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fnovacustom.com%2Fforum%2Fauth%2Fwordpress

What can I check to solve this? I use HidemyWPGhost to keep my website secure. I'm afraid of disabling the whole plugin ... Is this the problem indeed? Or is there anything else I can try?

I'm looking forward to your reply, many thanks in advance!

wessel-novacustom

I have managed to fix this by myself by making this change in my Nginx configuration!

I changed this line:
try_files $uri /forum/index.php$query_string
To:
try_files $uri /forum/index.php?$query_string

clarkwinkelmann

wessel-novacustom glad you found a solution.

It had to be related to the rewrites/try rules of WP and Flarum which are nested, you need to make sure everything under /forum/ is handled by Flarum's index.php

clarkwinkelmann

Version 1.8.3 - January 5, 2024

Fix open redirect vulnerability in logout script

Only the Flarum extension needs updating. The WordPress plugin has not received any change.

Forum data and credentials were never at risk, this was just a bad practice that could potentially harm the forum domain reputation if used to facilitate spam. It could also potentially be abused in a phishing attack against the users of the forum to make a malicious link look more legitimate.

The same vulnerability existed in Flarum core and was fixed in Flarum 1.8.5. This extension requires a patch because it uses a modified version of Flarum's logout controller that also contained the vulnerability. You don't need to add the WordPress domain name to the new redirectDomains config key, as the global login and logout feature doesn't use that Flarum mechanism.

Flab

Thanks for this really great plugin. Installing it with the documentation was pretty straight forward. But maybe I did somewhere something wrong.

Login from wordpress / comment section

On the wordpress site: When I want to comment the blog acrticle I cant login or register. Error message says something like

Oops! Something went wrong there. Please reload the page or try again.

Picture resizing

Some pictures on the flarum site in the content excerpt are looking wired. The width of the picure is changed to fit in the frame, but the height remains. Like this:

I tried to geht rid of th e picture with whitelist of HTML tags with p,ul but that seems not to work with my blog.

Previous blog postings

All the previous postings on the blog site have instead the comments frame this message:

This post doesn't have a comment thread yet. If you are the blog administrator, publish the post, or disable and re-enable comments to start a thread.

I can use “Bulk Edit” on the posting site to turn of the comments an on again. But there about 3000 postings. Is there any easier, smarter way to that?

Where to change words

Where can I change some words like on the flarum site in the excerpt WorpdPress Post. Also I want to change the read on blog and Read more button into my language.

On the Wordpress Site I want to change the word comments in to the site language as well.

clarkwinkelmann

Flab sorry if I skip over some of your questions, I'll reply to the most pressing points and read again your post later to make sure I didn't forget anything.

For the "Something went wrong", there should be more info in the Flarum or webserver log file, see https://docs.flarum.org/troubleshoot for how to find it.

For the picture size, I assume it's the post thumbnail rather than an image in the post content. I don't remember if my extension has a setting to toggle its visibility, probably not. But I could add a setting for that. The post preview on the Flarum side is displayed with some very simple CSS, which you should be able to override from the forum custom CSS if you wish. I don't remember seeing that issue with the image ratio but I'll take a look at whether I can fix it. It could also be caused by the CSS from other Flarum extension.

There is currently no way to automatically create comment threads for existing WP posts. This is a feature I planned to add but have not completed yet. The only solution at the moment is to manually toggle comments off and on again on each WP post. If you need this feature I can move it up my TODO list and work on it in the coming weeks.

To change texts on the Flarum side, you can use the Linguist extension https://discuss.flarum.org/d/7026-linguist-customize-translations-with-ease I think all texts should be translatable but if you can't find one let me know and I'll look into it.

On the WP side (outside of the iframe), I don't think my extension provides any text at all (except the admin panel setting names). The comment count is re-using the translation from the WP built-in themes, so it should already be translated by WP language packs. Texts inside the iframe are managed in Flarum.

Flab

clarkwinkelmann

Login from wordpress / comment section

Content of the storage/log
https://pastes.io/a6fg6fxaze

Picture resizing

In the admin panel both options Show WordPress post thumbnail above excerpt and Show WordPress post thumbnail in Flarum discussion list are switched off.
The image is in the begining of the post content, not the post thumbnail.
Unfortunately I dont know how to write anything in CSS.

Previous blog postings

If you need this feature I can move it up my TODO list and work on it in the coming weeks.

That would be a really nice to have feature and will save a lots of clicks.

Where to change words ✅

To change texts on the Flarum side, you can use the Linguist extension https://discuss.flarum.org/d/7026-linguist-customize-translations-with-ease I think all texts should be translatable but if you can't find one let me know and I'll look into it.

I could find everything with the linguist extension.

hrvoje_hr

Flab you can send the link and I will help you with CSS

clarkwinkelmann

Flab I don't remember 100% and I'll need to check the code again but it's possible that the thumbnail settings only apply to new and updated WP posts.

Once I implement the import tool, it will also solve this issue as it will allow re-syncing all post previews in addition to the comment threads.

Flab

hrvoje_hr Thank you for your kind offer. You will find a sample posting with strange looking picture over https://kominote.de/d/42-zusammen-f%C3%BCr-mehr-respekt

clarkwinkelmann The new import tool sounds great.

I still have the login problem when I want to login from the comment section at the wordpress site. Does this log file from storage/log help?
https://paste.quest/?56772ec7b1af43bd#8BTy3qZwSwDSBc49p2rLhGApzsp4KPE2MY9K4HZQoYYR

hrvoje_hr

Flab you could use this to hide the image:

.KilowhatWordpressSummaryPost-Article img {
    display: none;
}

However it is better to allow only the "p" HTML tag in the extension settings ("Whitelist of HTML tags to keep in the excerpt" section)

clarkwinkelmann

Flab I still have the login problem when I want to login from the comment section at the wordpress site. Does this log file from storage/log help?

It seems unlikely that those errors are related to login. The 3 WP logs are just information and not errors. The 2 instances of the same error must have happened during the deletion of a post.

The post deletion error is curious because I haven't seen it before. I'm not sure if it could be caused by my extension. It's probably caused by either discussion_user.last_read_post_number or discussions.last_post_number being NULL. This could be caused by malformed data after migrating from another software, or is related to posts/discussions that have been manually created by an extension, possibly my WP extension. I would need to test on my development server to see if I observe this issue.

Can you share your php flarum info and confirm whether you migrated data from another platform? Also if you remember deleting Flarum posts, do you remember if it was inside a WP comment thread or unrelated?

Flab

clarkwinkelmann

I cant say exactly which Flarum posts I was deleting.

Here is my php flarum info

I do have now a second storage/log Maybe this one can help?

NetConfig

Hi Clark,

Another quick FYI type update re WP Integration.

As you know, I have been trying to create a clean integration with the login / membership account page on the WP side.

I am coming to the conclusion that there are limited options to fully accomplish this and that it is better to stay in the normal WP fold with things.

So I have:

set the WordPress login path under the SSO settings in WPI back to the standard wp-login-php option
added a custom WP login modal logo with a plugin.

By doing this, the correct SSO behavior is also again working completely. Meaning, when you login on one side, you are in the other and the same for logout side.

Yes, it does POP up the WP login modal, but it is now customized to show some icon related to my main site, and seems "integrated enough". Forcing users to first go to the main site to login, and then go back to what they wanted to do also seems like a hassle for user experience anyway.

I am hiding the KiloWhat login button with display none in CSS, because there are enough Login options that show up at the Post level anyway. Meaning, the Login to see Replies from your See Past First Post extension, or the normal Login to Reply button from the normal theme.

On my "menu bar", I still have three custom buttons of which two are visible to users at one time.
Forums - is the home button as I am not displaying a logo here
Main Site - will link to the Membership login page for visitors using the Links extension
Main Site - will link to the normal home page of the WP site for logged in users.

In short: using your WP Integration extension AS YOU DESIGNED IT, hiding a Login button, and adding a few menu bar buttons, along with a bunch of custom CSS to integrate the forums look and feel with the main WP site seems like the way to go.

And then using the See Past First Post aka Show Only the First Post extension makes it a solid solution for clean integration with a membership site.

Just wanted to share as I am getting another step closer to installing this on my live site as described.

Cheers!

Flab

One more thing. Maybe this problem is connected with the "cant Login from the comment section in wordpress" Or maybe not.
Flarum and Wordpress are installed on two different domains. Like myflarumsite.com and mywordpresssite.com. Normally when login out of wordpress I get redirected to: mywordpresssite.com/blog/wp-login.php?loggedout
Since the Flarum Plugin in Wordpress is activ, I get redirected to: myflarumsite.com/wordpress
A error page occurs with something like "could not find this site, back to myflarumsite.com"

clarkwinkelmann

Flab officially, using multiple root domains is not supported (see Requirements section of my documentation), because the main SSO mechanism is a cookie set to the top level domain that must be accessible to both WP and Flarum.

Something I should add to the documentation is that the common domain is only a requirement for the SSO feature. The comments integration by itself will work no matter the domain names.

It might work when logging in from a certain direction due to how it's implemented, but I am not entirely sure in which circumstances it will work, I would have to do some tests.

I might be able to add an option to make SSO cross-domain work, but it will involve one more redirect on every login. Currently, global login is done through cookie (because it's more performant and less chance of breaking due to WP plugins), and global logout is done through redirects (because it's the only way to be certain both sessions are deleted).

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