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Blog Linking: Best way to move "Join the forum discussion" link

Blog Linking: Best way to move "Join the forum discussion" link

Emmet Brown

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Apr 15, 2016 - 12:20 am

Hi, just turned on the Blog Linking plugin and it seems to be working, but I just have a cosmetic issue I want to fix if possible.

The link on the blog post shows up a bit too high (above my author box).

I'd rather have it show up right above the first comment if possible. I see there are some template tags available so I know there is a solution. I just want to know where exactly to place this tag...

I've commented out my theme's comment form, so all that's showing up now are the SP comments. I just need to know where to place that tag so that it appears right above these comments.

(And yes, my goal is to completely replace the comments with the forum comments.)

Yellow Swordfish

Glinton, England

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Apr 15, 2016 - 3:48 am

There is indeed a template tag that you can use for this which displays the link but you do need to add the tag to your WP theme template - usually the index.php or single.php or both. And you may, of course, need to apply your own styling.

The code is basically:

global $post;
spBlogTopicLink( $post->ID, true );

The true for the second parameter controls whether the little icon is displayed or not. This tag does, of course, need to be placed within the WordPress 'loop' for it to pick up the correct post ID.

Hope that helps.