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clarkwinkelmann

chrisc297 thanks. I have identified which extension also uses the Symfony DOM Crawler, it's https://discuss.flarum.org/d/30011-link-preview

I'll publish an update to my extension later today to use a newer version of the DOM Crawler.

chrisc297

clarkwinkelmann

Awesome thank you!

Quick question re the plugin. If sign up is left enabled on Flarum. Does this create an account in WordPress too?

clarkwinkelmann

Flarum changelog

Version 1.8.1 - March 30, 2023

Fix WP thumbnail change not always synchronising.
Fix WP post URL slug change not synchronising.
Update Symfony dependencies to prevent conflict with other Flarum extensions.

chrisc297 the installation command from the documentation should now work without any tweak required.

clarkwinkelmann

chrisc297 If sign up is left enabled on Flarum. Does this create an account in WordPress too?

No. Accounts must be created first on the WordPress side and the "Log in with WordPress" button must be used to perform global single sign on.

If a standalone Flarum account is created, it will be separate from WordPress until the first time the same email is logged in or registered in WordPress. Then the user will no longer be allowed to login using password and will have to use WordPress to login. Accounts don't need to exist in WordPress to comment though. If you don't have an existing userbase and don't have any community feature in WordPress itself, you can leave SSO off and let users create accounts on Flarum directly to comment.

chrisc297 the video doesn't fit in line

The WordPress preview only has minimal CSS. I have added a max-width of 100% for images but never tested with iframes. I could add some explicit CSS for this in a future update since I see WordPress includes the aspect ratio with the .wp-embed-aspect-16-9 class. In the meantime you have 2 options: add some custom CSS to Flarum to force the iframe size in .KilowhatWordpressSummaryPost-Article or use the HTML tag whitelist in the extension settings to exclude iframes from the preview, forcing users to visit the post on WordPress to see the video.

chrisc297 is this how comments are supposed to look

I assume you disabled the extension/comments since your post because I don't see any Flarum comment thread on the page.

chrisc297

Also, is this how comments are supposed to look:
https://tellytips.com/netflix/were-building-something-new-stay-tuned/

hrvoje_hr

chrisc297 yes, those are comments from this plugin. But you can customize the looks with your own css

chrisc297

Sorry, another thing. This is a post with a YouTube video from WordPress - the video doesn't fit in line
https://forums.tellytips.com/d/4-swarm-streaming-now

chrisc297

clarkwinkelmann

Thanks for explaining. Appreciate all your help.

hrvoje_hr

clarkwinkelmann I had only one issue with multisite support so far. Comment numbers only updating on the main site

clarkwinkelmann

hrvoje_hr ah yes... I'm not sure if there's any easy solution for this without making Flarum aware of which comments are under which multisite.

WordPress is probably getting the API request for each post ID, but it ignores the IDs that aren't part of the main site.

Do you have anything logged in the Flarum log file by my extension? WordPress API errors should be logged in there. If you can share the logs with me it might give me some hints as to how I could implement this without having to setup a multisite environment myself just yet.

hrvoje_hr

No API errors whatsoever in Flarum logs

At this moment, the extension updates comments only on the main site. It fires API requests even for comments threads of another site. But posts IDs on both sites are different (on the main site increment is from 0, on the other is from 500k), so there are no overwrites. Because of that, I would be fine if it fires the same requests to both sites on the network without any logic.

hrvoje_hr

One new (maybe) unrelated issue. I've migrated Flarum to another server. After that, I noticed that the comments count doesn't update anymore even on the main site, so I tried to reenable Wordpress extension. After that, I'm getting this in Admin:

This extension has no settings.

I've tried to reinstall, purge data, clear cache, and run migrate command... Nothing helps.

All other extensions work as expected.

clarkwinkelmann

hrvoje_hr the most likely causes are either an outdated Flarum cache or a javascript error. Can you check if there is anything in the browser console?

You could also try removing the extension with Composer and then install it again. Don't click "purge". Just remove with Composer, clear Flarum cache, then re-install and clear the cache again.

I've seen few but regular reports on Discuss of random extensions that would not show their settings. But nobody has ever identified the cause. Most likely it's something to do with server resources, like a file permissions problem on the disk or the memory/time allocated to PHP being insufficient and causing some resources to be missing from the final javascript or CSS files. I wish I'd knew exactly what it was so I could provide better guidance. It doesn't seem to be extension specific.

hrvoje_hr

clarkwinkelmann There were no errors in the browser console. Hovewer, I've managed to get it back after reinstalling extension few times via Composer. Thank you.

The same issue appeared on some other extensions after migration as well. I think a low PHP memory_limit was responsible. After raising from 128 to 512MB and reinstailling affected extensions, everything is fine.

Also, after that fixed comments count on the main site as well

hrvoje_hr After that, I noticed that the comments count doesn't update anymore even on the main site

However, the issue about updating comments count on other sites on network still persists

hrvoje_hr

I've managed to sync the comments count on Site 2 in Wordpress multisite. If someone needs it, the code is below. Just make sure to set starting increment point of post ID's on another site to some high number. I've set it to 5 million, to avoid having duplicate post IDs on both sites.

It creates a custom REST API endpoint to intercept post updates coming from this extension. Then checks if the post ID exists on the main site. If don't, it means that the discussion is belonging to another site. Then proceeds to the posts table on the other site and updates it there.

Paste the code in your functions.php file and be sure to change "POST TABLE NAME ON SITE 2" to your own name (with prefix)

function custom_update_post(WP_REST_Request $request) {
    $post_id = $request['id'];
    $comment_count = $request['comment_count'];

    if (get_post($post_id) !== null) {
        // Update the existing post with the new comment count
        wp_update_post(array(
            'ID' => $post_id,
            'comment_count' => $comment_count
        ));
    } else {
        // Update the second site on multisite table with the new comment count
        global $wpdb;
        $table_name = 'POST TABLE NAME ON SITE 2';

        $existing_record = $wpdb->get_row($wpdb->prepare("SELECT * FROM $table_name WHERE ID = %d", $post_id));

        if ($existing_record) {
            $wpdb->update(
                $table_name,
                array('comment_count' => $comment_count),
                array('ID' => $post_id),
                array('%d'),
                array('%d')
            );
        } else {
            $wpdb->insert(
                $table_name,
                array(
                    'ID' => $post_id,
                    'comment_count' => $comment_count
                ),
                array('%d', '%d')
            );
        }
    }

    return new WP_REST_Response("Comment count updated successfully", 200);
}

function custom_update_post_register_route() {
    register_rest_route('wp/v2', '/posts/(?P<id>\d+)', array(
        'methods' => 'POST',
        'callback' => 'custom_update_post',
        'permission_callback' => function () {
            return current_user_can('edit_posts');
        },
        'args' => array(
            'id' => array(
                'validate_callback' => function($param, $request, $key) {
                    return is_numeric($param);
                }
            ),
            'comment_count' => array(
                'required' => true,
                'validate_callback' => function($param, $request, $key) {
                    return is_numeric($param);
                }
            ),
        ),
    ));
}

add_action('rest_api_init', 'custom_update_post_register_route');

feds

Hello, I just installed the Flarum extension and the WordPress plugin. I configured all the things like the documentation says. But Flarum keeps giving me this error:

We could not authenticate with the given credentials. Double-check the URL, username, and password. Check the documentation for more troubleshooting steps.

When I run the health check in WordPress Tab (before and after typing my WordPress details), it says:

The "WordPress admin username" setting must be filled
The "WordPress URL" setting must be filled

I'm following the documentation to know more about this error. But I'm not understanding what I am doing wrong. My WordPress Health Check Tool is not giving me any API errors and the Flarum API Key is correctly pasted into my WordPress settings.

I have WordPress in the main directory and Flarum in /forum and my Flarum logs don't say anything.

My Flarum info:

Flarum core: 1.8.1 PHP version: 8.1.20 MySQL version: 10.5.19-MariaDB-0+deb11u2 Loaded extensions: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, json, pcntl, Reflection, SPL, session, standard, sodium, mysqlnd, PDO, xml, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, mbstring, FFI, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, gmp, iconv, igbinary, imagick, imap, intl, ldap, exif, mysqli, pdo_mysql, Phar, posix, readline, redis, shmop, SimpleXML, sockets, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tokenizer, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, Zend OPcache +----------------------------------+---------+--------+ | Flarum Extensions | | | +----------------------------------+---------+--------+ | ID | Version | Commit | +----------------------------------+---------+--------+ | flarum-flags | v1.8.0 | | | flarum-approval | v1.8.0 | | | flarum-subscriptions | v1.8.0 | | | flarum-tags | v1.8.0 | | | flarum-suspend | v1.8.0 | | | flarum-lock | v1.8.0 | | | afrux-forum-widgets-core | v0.1.7 | | | flarum-nicknames | v1.8.0 | | | fof-follow-tags | 1.1.7 | | | v17development-seo | v1.8.0 | | | tohsakarat-fancybox-plus | 1.0.21 | | | sycho-profile-cover | v1.3.5 | | | nearata-twofactor | v2.2.0 | | | nearata-sensitive-content | 1.1.0 | | | matteociaroni-public-suspensions | v1.0.0 | | | malago-ads | 0.3.2 | | | kilowhat-wordpress | 1.8.1 | | | justoverclock-welcomebox | 2.0.2 | | | fof-username-request | 1.1.2 | | | fof-user-directory | 1.2.3 | | | fof-user-bio | 1.1.1 | | | fof-upload | 1.2.3 | | | fof-socialprofile | 1.1.5 | | | fof-sitemap | 2.1.0 | | | fof-share-social | 1.1.2 | | | fof-profile-image-crop | 1.1.1 | | | fof-prevent-necrobumping | 1.1.1 | | | fof-polls | 1.4.0 | | | fof-oauth | 1.3.2 | | | fof-nightmode | 1.5.2 | | | fof-mason | 1.2.0 | | | fof-links | 1.1.4 | | | fof-linguist | 1.1.1 | | | fof-ignore-users | 1.2.0 | | | fof-geoip | 1.1.0 | | | fof-disposable-emails | 1.0.0 | | | fof-best-answer | 1.2.5 | | | fof-bbcode-details | 1.1.1 | | | fof-analytics | 1.1.0 | | | flarum-sticky | v1.8.0 | | | flarum-statistics | v1.8.0 | | | flarum-pusher | v1.8.0 | | | flarum-mentions | v1.8.0 | | | flarum-markdown | v1.8.0 | | | flarum-likes | v1.8.0 | | | flarum-lang-italian | 1.11.0 | | | flarum-emoji | v1.8.0 | | | flarum-bbcode | v1.8.0 | | | datlechin-link-preview | v1.4.0 | | | clarkwinkelmann-circle-groups | 1.0.1 | | | afrux-news-widget | v0.1.1 | | | acpl-mobile-tab | 1.1.1 | | +----------------------------------+---------+--------+ Base URL: https://mydomain.eu/forum Installation path: /var/www/html/mydomain.eu/forum Queue driver: sync Session driver: file Scheduler status: Inattivo Mail driver: smtp Debug mode: off!

clarkwinkelmann

feds you must either connect the 2 websites using the wizard, or connect them manually by filling the URLs and API key. If you already entered settings on the WordPress side manually, the installation wizard will no longer work. This is for security reasons, so the setup API endpoint on WordPress cannot be abused once the connection has been made.

Try removing all setting values on the WordPress side under the Flarum integration settings and try to use the Wizard on the Flarum side again. Alternatively you can fill in the remaining blank fields on both sides to manually establish the connection.

If the Wizard still doesn't work with all settings left empty on the WordPress side, can you share the list of WordPress plugins you are using? In particular if there are any authentication, rate limiter or spam detection plugins. You can send the list to me privately using the email listed on the documentation page if you prefer.

The health check in the Flarum extension will only provide useful information once the 2 websites have been successfully connected. Its main role is to verify nothing was accidentally unlinked or broken in the future.

feds

I just connected it manually and it worked, but the Health Check keeps me to give this error:

The "WordPress URL" setting in Flarum does not match the "WordPress Address (URL)" setting from WordPress (expected: "", actual: "https://mydomain.eu")

What does "WordPress Address (URL)" mean? I wrote my correct WordPress URL in the WordPress URL field in Flarum.

clarkwinkelmann

feds do you have a multisite WordPress install?

If I remember correctly, the "expected" value is the URL configured in WordPress wp-config.php that Flarum reads through the WordPress REST API, while "actual" is the copy-paste of the value currently stored in Flarum.

If you have a multi-site, it should still work in most part but the wizard and health check won't. This is why I listed multi-site installations as unsupported for now. But I have customers who successfully run the extension in multi-site. I am hoping to add full support in the future.

If you don't have multi-site, maybe there's a WP plugin interfering with the URL returned by the WordPress REST API. If everything else is correct, you can ignore that warning. If you find which plugin or WordPress settings causes the "expected" URL to become an empty value, please let me know so I can investigate!

feds

Yes, I have a WordPress Multisite. But on the main site, I use the Broadcast plugin to broadcast all posts to the main site. So, I activated the plugin only on the main site.

EDIT: I cleared Flarum and WordPress cache, and now it works successfully also on the other sites of my Network without any problem. Thank you very much 😉

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