Configuring Wordpress Posts With Smf

[jamestl2]

Hello everyone,

My SMF forums are running great (no logging in, admin problems, etc.) and was wondering if it was possible to somehow structure it after my wordpress website?

 

For example on my site, I have wp-categories such as politics and advice, and posts within them. What I would like to have in my forums is a similar hierarchy, with a “website” over-board, my wordpress categories being different sub-boards, and my wordpress posts being threads.

 

I wasn’t sure if I should manually create each sub-board, or, since I want to automate my posts, if there were some features that would automatically create the board *with* the appropriate category (Say in case I create a new category, then this way the new sub-board would be made along with a new post, or something).

 

I also downloaded the WP & SMF plugin, and it’s “sister” plugin, “SMF_Wordpress” but they didn’t seem to offer those features, just user integration.

 

Hope this is clear (as most of you probably know, I’m a php, mySQL noob, etc.).

Thanks

[MikeJ]

For example on my site, I have wp-categories such as politics and advice, and posts within them. What I would like to have in my forums is a similar hierarchy, with a “website” over-board, my wordpress categories being different sub-boards, and my wordpress posts being threads.

 

You could simply just create the forums to match your categories (but you'd have to manually post too), but I'm confused about your reasoning behind duplicating what's already in Wordpress. Why do you want two different representations of the exact same content? It sounds more like you should either stick with Wordpress, or move to a forum format, rather than attempt to duplicate the information in both. If you want a more "bloggish" or "portal" type look for SMF, you can throw on something like TinyPortal.

 

I also downloaded the WP & SMF plugin, and it’s “sister” plugin, “SMF_Wordpress” but they didn’t seem to offer those features, just user integration.

 

For good reason. What it sounds like you want to do is duplicate the content in two different places. I'm not really seeing where the benefit of doing that is.

[jamestl2]

Actually, I don't want to duplicate what I said in WP,

 

I just want to connect the two, for example, the thread title would be the same as the post title, but the first post would say something like "Discuss this post in this thread here"

 

It would be like an alternative to comments.

[TCH-Bruce]

Wordpress already allows comments (same as discussions). I don't see your reasoning...

[jamestl2]

I know wordpress allows comments, I'd rather have them discuss through the boards, its a better place for it IMO.

[TCH-Thomas]

So basically you want your wordpress to be a sort of announcement board and all the commenting is made in the forum, am I correct?

 

If yes, as I see it this is making things more complicated than it have to be since both wordpress and a forum can have posts and comments on those posts.

 

However, if you want to do it this way, this is how I would do it...

 

1) Create a post in my wordpress

 

2) In my post, create a link to the same threads in the forum, since I don´t think you can have threads without an initial post which could simply be the post that contains the same as you wrote in the wordpress (note: you need to create this first post).

 

3) Disable comments

 

4) Post/Publish your wordpress post

 

An easier way would be as Bruce says, have the commenting going on right under your post in your wordpress.

 

If I personally was transferred to a forum to make my comment by clicking the link in a post instead of making it on the same page as the post, I would just get confused and wondering "How did this happen".

[jamestl2]

So basically you want your wordpress to be a sort of announcement board and all the commenting is made in the forum, am I correct?

 

If yes, as I see it this is making things more complicated than it have to be since both wordpress and a forum can have posts and comments on those posts.

 

Sort of, I would prefer having all my “user interaction” so to say, in my forums. It would give my site a more “clean feel” for me, and probably my guests. (Because I don’t technically consider it a blog, but I still use wordpress software.)

 

However, if you want to do it this way, this is how I would do it...

 

1) Create a post in my wordpress

 

2) In my post, create a link to the same threads in the forum, since I don´t think you can have threads without an initial post which could simply be the post that contains the same as you wrote in the wordpress (note: you need to create this first post).

 

3) Disable comments

 

4) Post/Publish your wordpress post

 

So you are suggesting that I just do this all manually? I will probably have future posts (and all the ones I have now, over 40 of them) done the same way.

 

Also, like I said earlier, I don’t want the “content” of the post in the forums, just have the first post (in the thread) saying something like “discuss this post in this thread here”.

 

An easier way would be as Bruce says, have the commenting going on right under your post in your wordpress.

 

If I personally was transferred to a forum to make my comment by clicking the link in a post instead of making it on the same page as the post, I would just get confused and wondering "How did this happen".

 

Maybe I could have some instructions underneath the post saying something such as: “You may discuss this post in the toptenlisted.com forums, click here to go there”

 

Or would this still be to complicated for casual readers who want to comment? (Because they would probably have to register with the blog/forums to comment.)

[TCH-Bruce]

My blog does not require registering before posting a comment. I run Spam Karma and receive no spam. If I were to run a forum I would require registration to engage in discussions.

 

Adding links to a forum post you create in your Wordpress posts for discussion is not unheard of and you can certainly do that.

[jamestl2]

Mine doesn't requre registering either, which is why I asked if this procedure may be a more "complicated" to just casual readers of my site.

 

(I'm not entirely sure if I'll disable comment's afterwards, but for the one's that are getting tons of comments, I may want to send to the forums, as it is a better place to debate on what I wrote about) I figured I might as well add forums for all my posts in case they want to debate about it later.

 

Another reason I'm adding boards is because I may want to add more than what I write about on my site (such as site technical questions, general & introduction topics, feedback about its design etc. (I would work on adding and expanding these features after I finished with the main topics).

[TCH-Bruce]

What you are wanting to do makes sense. You will have to create threads in the forum manually and link to them from your blog posts is all.

[jamestl2]

Alright, thanks for the clarification Bruce.

 

(When I created this thread, I assumedthere may've been something simple I could have changed from my SMF database to give it those features, but doing it manually is probably easier)