Also I would like to note that there is no option in the Blog Linking Settings that allow me to change the text of the Forum-to-Blog link.  There IS settings to change the link from the BLOG-to-Forum link (“Join Forum Discussion on this post”) but there is NOT the option to change the Forum-to-Blog Link.

do you have a link to example so we can better understand what you are saying?

of course, the blog post link should go to the forum topic and the link in the forum topic should go to the blog post… is that not what is happening??

are you sure there is not link?  keep in mind, its shown at the top of the topic in the header and not in the post content itself…

Hi,

Unfortunately I don’t have a link because the site is a membership site, however my forum is not even showing up for topics that are blog linked. The forum topics just redirect to the Blog. Is there a way to change that.

sorry, I dont understand ‘my forum is not even showing up for topics that are blog linked’?  what does that mean?

the forum is either there or not…  it shows up on its own page completely separate from blog posts…

Are you saying if you create a blog post, that the TOPIC does not show in the forum?

Sorry for the confusion.  The topic shows up in the forum; however, when you click on the topic the site redirects to the blog page that is linked to the topic.  The topic is never opened in the forum it is just redirected.

would really need to see what is happening…  we do not have any way built into sp to do that kind of redirection…

no caching plugin, right?  before you click on the forum topic, what is the url shown in the browser status bar? ie does it point to the forum or to the blog post?

Hi,

The forum topic link is:

http://www.example.com/members/forum/general/flow-diagram/

The blog post link is:

http://www.example.com/members/flow-diagram/

The forum topic link automatically redirects to the blog link.  The forum topic link is never opened in the forum it is just redirected.  That is whether the forum topic link URL is entered in the address bar or the forum topic link is click on from “Join the forum discussion on this post”

Even when the forum-to-blog linking is Broken. (By clicking “Break forum” link in the WordPress blog edit page)  The forum topic is still showing as a topic in the forum; however, the forum topic link still redirects to the BLOG post.

Even when the Blog linking plugin is disabled.  The forum topic redirects to the BLOG page that was originally associated with it.

OK – I just figured out the problem.  It ends up that my whole forum was redirecting to my BLOG.  For example if a forum link was: http://www.example.com/members/forum/general/.  The forum would auto redirect for whatever reason to http://www.example.com/%category-base%/general.

The way I fixed this was to go to INTEGRATION – PAGE AND PERMALINK – then click on UPDATE FORUM PERMALINK.  This fixed the redirection problem.

good work. thanks for the update.

Another problem I found was that there is no link back to the BLOG from the forum topic post.  On the blog side there is a “Join the Forum Discussion for this post” but there is no “View the original Blog page” link on the Forum topic.

I understand the “view the original blog page” link can be in the header of the forum topic but there is no link at all.  On top of that there is no option in the Blog linking section to edit the display text for the Forum-to-blog link.  I remember in the old blog linking plugin for SP4 there was an option to edit the display link for the Blog-to-forum link (“Join the forum Discussion on this post”) AND an option to edit the display link for the forum-to-blog link (“view the original blog post”).

first, you have to start thinking themes… that is where most display elements are controlled from…

so for the forum to blog link, you can put the template tag where ever you want the link to display and have it say whatever you want… our supplied themes put in the header though with different text than you say…

so its in the spTopicView.php template file… look for:

if (function_exists(‘sp_TopicHeaderShowBlogLink’)) sp_TopicHeaderShowBlogLink(”, __sp(‘Read the original blog post’), __sp(‘Click to goto original blog post’));

now as to it not being a link, I cannot duplicate that… its a link for me… do you have a link to your site?