NodeBB Blog Comments (Ghost / WP Commenting Engine)
npm install nodebb-plugin-blog-commentsLets NodeBB act as a comments engine/widget for your blog. Currently supports both Ghost and WordPress. There is a separate repo for PencilBlue support. If you'd like to see support for other CMS/blog systems, please submit an issue on our tracker.
The comments are exposed to any plugin you have built into the core, so it is completely possible to have emoticons, embedded video, and/or whatever else you want in the comments section of your blog.
Articles are published to a forum category of your choice, and will gain a tag that links it back to the original article.
* The WP-JSON plugin is no longer required. This plugin will now use the built-in JSON API.
* The comments snippet has changed, please update your integration code as necessary
* Fixed a bug that caused errors when no ACAO header was defined
Getting Unexpected end of JSON input for /comments/publish? On your blog's post template (ex. post.hbs for Ghost) where you have installed the blog comments script, find the following line:
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and above, add:
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* Fixed quite a few server crashes (especially when publishing)
* Compatible with NodeBB 0.6x+ and Ghost 0.5.10
* Added tags support for Ghost
* Added comment support in general
First install the plugin:
npm install nodebb-plugin-blog-comments
Activate the plugin in the ACP and reboot NodeBB. Head over to the Blog Comments section in the ACP and select the Category ID you'd like to publish your blog content to (default is Category 1). Make sure you put the correct URL to your blog.
Paste this any where in yourtheme/post.hbs, somewhere between {{#post}} and {{/post}}. All you have to edit is line 3 (nbb.url) - put the URL to your NodeBB forum's home page here.
If you wish, you can move to where you want to place the actual comments widget.
Replace the contents of /wp-content/themes/YOUR_THEME/comments.php with the following (back-up the old comments.php, just in case):
`html
if ( post_password_required() )
return;
?>
) - put the URL to your NodeBB forum's home page here. You can also use any template engine (hbs, eco...) instead of PHP.`html
`You must have some getId() function on your website, for example:
For a PHP website
php
function getId(){
$id = 0;
// unique id for each page of your website
return $id;
}
?>
`If you don't have such ID, you can use this function that generates a unique ID from the URL:
php
function getId(){
return stringToInteger($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
}
function stringToInteger($string) {
$string = md5($string);
$output = '1';
for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($string); $i++) {
$output .= (string) ord($string[$i]);
}
return (int) $output;
}
?>
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You may optionally put a "# of comments" counter anywhere on the page with the following code:
html
Comments
`A mechanism to query the number of comments on another separate page will be available in a future release.
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To use NodeBB's category and author information (instead of using Ghost's user/tag system), there are two elements that this plugin searches for:
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Published by in
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Head over to the article that you'd like to publish. The code will detect if you're both an administrator of your blog and NodeBB (so ensure that you're logged into both) and will display a publish button if so.
You may also create a
You may use a comma-separated entry of blogs in the ACP to support publishing from a network of separate blogs to your forum. You can also choose to put each blog in its own dedicated category, or place them all into one category.
* NodeBB's Blog (Wordpress).
* The Unknown Artist Hour (Ghost).
* Strange Adventures In (Ghost).
* V2MM (Ghost).
Please submit a PR to add your site here :)
* Republishing (for now you can just edit both the article and the published blog).
* Pull CSS files from appropriate plugins? Ability to load custom CSS to style widget.