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This probebly should go into the developer ideas because it's coming from me. but I'd like a little input as well.
Post Linking works well for version 4.0.2 when posting from the blog to the forum, but sometimes I just cant be bothered by slow web connections or finding an interweb connection when I'm on the road. During those times I am mobi-blogging there is no easy way for me to add my mobi-post to the forums for open discussion. You have to be on the post screen in the wordpress backend to set the link option.
Using the post link option uses a web form which is only accessable from the post edit screen, but the post linking function of SPF sets a custom feild in my postmeta data, which can be set or unset anywhere, even with remote publishing items such as posting by email or using XMLRPC tools such as Windows Live Writer or Ecto for MacOSX.
Is it at all possible to set an optional trigger to the post linking function, such that when the filter is called, that it checks first for the PHP $POST variables to create the link, and then also looks for a similar set of POSTMETA values (temporary) to trigger the same process (but only if the $POST values arent there)?
If this were possible, people like myself would be able to use Ecto or Live Writer to set the linking option into effect when posting remotely and cant get to the wordpress backend.
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the post meta data could simply be a key of SETFORUMPOSTLINK with a value of the forumID.
Once the forum link is created, the function could clear the temporary key and value, so that multiple forum posts arent created when editing revisions.
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Just a suggestion, yes...
Actually it's a function of wordpress's XMLRPC tool, not the specific online tool, that allows this, in the case of ecto, yes, it's allowed under v.2 and up (current is v.3 for MacOS and WinXP+) Windows Live Writer, which many of my clients use also allows this.
Other tools also include LiveJournal Tool and BlogDesk (WinXP+). MoBlog (PalmOS) iPhone-Blog (iPhone and iPad) WriterCE (Windows Mobile OS) etc.
Advanced post-by-email plugins for Wordpress also allow things like moble posts to have Post Meta data preset for incoming posts, this could possibly be a first step for automatic post linking, as SPF or even other third party plugins could set this as a default key value pair for posts.
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A new idea in Catiptalistic Ecology
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interestingly, some import tools like Feed WordPress can also set this value, allowing post linking from agregated feeds.
This option would allow, say a WPMU install, to post link between blogs or sub-blogs to the main site forum (one way) automaticly when users post on the remote blogs.
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Well - seems to me if there is a method for entering a key/value pair with the post destined for postmeta then the only other bit is to confirm that WP fires the same hooks as if it were using the 'Add New' edit form plus discovering when the postmeta data becomes available during that publishing process.
if all that checks out then there is nothing difficult to worry about.
Suggest you raise a TRAC ticket and include this thread link.
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moving the conversation to new thread in the dev forum (Trac and I arent on speaking terms. It's mad at me or something)
Leaving this open because User input is just as important.
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