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I actually quite like some of these suggestions and if they are not raised on a list of requests somewhere I will make sure most of them are.
However, items 5,6 and 7 are a mystery as I really don't have a clue what you are referring to. it depends on which editor you are using but mostly depends on the source of the pasted content. So you'll need to go into more step by step detail than you have above.
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I think the linebreak issue has to do with the fact that pasted text is sometimes put in a DIV container whose name I don't immediately recall. Sometimes it works fine (I can't reproduce it right now), and sometimes the pasted text ends up in a DIV and contains strange line breaks.
Edit: I'm an idiot.
I do have a few questions about using SPF in blog linking mode, where all comments are moved to forum posts and then deleted:
1. When a forum post is created from a WP comment, the information about the user's IP, email, and website is lost: even though SPF has fields for that, when I click on the wrench and look at them, those fields come up blank. Is that a defect in my setup? If not, is that something that is or will be fixed?
2. Related to that, the links for Delete and Spam go nowhere because they're still pointing to the original WP comment (which has been deleted). The link to Edit, however, does work. Is there any way to get the Delete link back?
3. Is there a way to flush out WP comments? Every once in a while the blog linking doesn't work perfectly, and some comments get 'stuck' as WP comments. I don't know how to get SPF to import and delete them.
Thanks!
spork said:
I think the linebreak issue has to do with the fact that pasted text is sometimes put in a DIV container whose name I don't immediately recall. Sometimes it works fine (I can't reproduce it right now), and sometimes the pasted text ends up in a DIV and contains strange line breaks
We worked with Tal on the line-break issue and resolved it for 4.4.0.... or was that 4.3.5... juggling too many versions at the moment.
I do have a few questions about using SPF in blog linking mode, where all comments are moved to forum posts and then deleted:
1. When a forum post is created from a WP comment, the information about the user's IP, email, and website is lost: even though SPF has fields for that, when I click on the wrench and look at them, those fields come up blank. Is that a defect in my setup? If not, is that something that is or will be fixed?
Not something that has been reported before so I was unaware of this. I will open a ticket and investigate it.
2. Related to that, the links for Delete and Spam go nowhere because they're still pointing to the original WP comment (which has been deleted). The link to Edit, however, does work. Is there any way to get the Delete link back?
What links to Delete and Spam? Where are these links?
3. Is there a way to flush out WP comments? Every once in a while the blog linking doesn't work perfectly, and some comments get 'stuck' as WP comments. I don't know how to get SPF to import and delete them.
Really? Again - not something that has been reported before. I can again look into it but I doubt I can replicate this.
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Permit me to describe the situation in case it helps.
1- My forum is set to "you must create an account to post". Guests have read access but cannot post. However, Wordpress is set to "anyone can post a comment", so with blog linking, those posts get turned into guest forum posts and then deleted from the Wordpress comments.
I get a confirmation email with each comment showing the email, website (if any), and IP of the user. However, that doesn't get propagated to the SPF post: only the name shows up, and all the other fields (normally shown when I click on the wrench) are blank.
2- When looking at the comments from the post in Wordpress (as opposed to from the forum), and when I'm logged in as an admin, there are three links next to the avatar: Edit, Delete, and Spam. Edit works fine: it kicks me to the forum page, editing the comment in question. However, clicking Delete brings me to a Wordpress error page saying "No such comment" (probably because it's been deleted and only exists in the forum), and clicking "Spam" produces the same result.
3- I doubt you could replicate it and I wouldn't expect you to: it seems to happen that every once in a while, when a post is first published, the blog linking doesn't get turned on for that article. So people start leaving comments, which (of course) are regular Wordpress comments.
Then if I re-publish the article and blog linking turns back on, it catches any new comments and turns them into forum posts, but the previous comments are "stuck" as Wordpress comments and don't show up in the forums (and aren't counted by sf_comments_number()).
So it would be nice to have a way to "sweep" the article for Wordpress comments when this happens. As is, I have a few comments 'stuck' in Wordpress and no way to get them out.
Does that help any?
As promised I have opened a ticket on 1.
2 might be difficult to deal with depending on where the options come from. Not all WP tags can be filtered for change and if it comers from the theme or another plugin then it probably has to stay but I will try and check.
3 is something we have been asked for and is down for a future enhancement but I can't promise when.
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Any idea on the status of bug 1? (No IP/email/website available for WP comments turned into SPF posts, either when shown as WP comments or in SPF)
It's particularly irritating with trackbacks, because they don't contain the backlink...although it's irritating for regular commenters, too, who put in their website but never see it show up.
I tried setting SPF to allow guest posts...no difference.
Excellent on the IP…that''ll help.
As far as URLs, if it's not possible to save the URLs of guest posters, that means trackbacks will be permanently broken.
Here's an idea: how about an option to *not* turn trackbacks into SPF posts, i.e. to leave them in the WP comment system? Then they'll still work fine, and they'll still display either interspersed or separately according to the settings…
That would mean an extra checkbox under "Blog Integration" where one can set SPF to either turn regular comments into SPF posts, turn trackbacks into SPF posts, or both. I''d actually prefer to leave the trackbacks out of SPF anyway, as they're kind of distracting when reading a forum thread, and they get munched to unusable and unreadable lengths anyway due to truncation of the "user" field.
Does this seem reasonable?
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