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Ok, Ike.  That was what I was asking.  I hope it is being considered.  BBpress, for all it's faults had that feature in its blog linking plugin and it was very helpful.

We have a lot of old school members who consider a wordpress website as new fangled and weird.  They are used to coding in html and because of that, the website was static and they pretty much put anything and everything into their forums.  So say, someone writes up a fantastic book review.  Instead of writing a wordpress post about it, they will write it up in the forums, under general discussion.  How is anyone ever going to find that???  I would love to be able to go in and copy and paste a wordpress post with the same title as their topic and associate the two.

Another example is a custom post type of event.  If someone thinks about it, they can add that event to the forums as a topic.  But sometimes, members want to see if others can help them with an event.  If they respond favorably, then it's put on the calendar.  So 3 or 4 people volunteer to help at that event in the forums, it's put on the calendar as an event post, but the event on the calendar can't be associated with that forum topic about it.  Another has to be made if you want to have any forum discussion on that event.  And that confuses our already confused members.

Perhaps have a new plugin that goes the other way?  Link a new blog post to a topic?  So if someone sees a forum topic that should have a wordpress post on it, they can "create a blog post" and associate that topic with it?  Just an idea.

In the meantime, I just made it so that a forum post will automatically be created in a particular forum.  I'll probably end up having to move a few topics to another forum, but oh well.  Just more work for me.