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FYI: Blog Post Linking Plugin Problem
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Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 18, 2012 - 5:43 am

No - initially you need to manually upload them via ftp. Once in place the wp updater will work for future version releases.

By default, Sp plugins go into the folder /wp-content/sp-resources/forum-plugins.

The blog linking plugin - when unzipped - will give you the code in a folder called 'blog-linking'. copy that folder into the one above and go to the Sp plugins page and activate.

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Jan 18, 2012 - 6:06 am

Thanks got it! Great job guys looks great.

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Jan 18, 2012 - 6:18 am

OK I managed to solve the blog link problem by just updating wordpress to the latest 3.3.1 and simple press to V5. 

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Jan 18, 2012 - 6:29 am

Only issue I have is that my blog posts are not auto linking to the forum. They are still opening the blog pages and then users must click to link to forum. Any ideas?

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 18, 2012 - 8:14 am

Can you explain what you mean by 'blog posts are not auto linking to the forum'.

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Jan 18, 2012 - 7:20 pm

Yes, when a user clicks onto a blog on the home page or side bar, they are still directed to the blog page. I thought that by selecting link to topic (in spf) it would open in spf only. Also, posts made in the blog pages are not being duplicated into the forums, however posts in the forums are being duplicated into the blog page which is odd.

I wanted the blogs to open into the forum so all replies are in 1 place - the forum topic.

 

For example if you go to http://www.amoauto.com on the home page are some blog posts. Click 1 and see what I mean. 

 

Thanks.

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Mr Papa
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Jan 18, 2012 - 7:27 pm

sorry, not following or perhaps you are misunderstanding something...

why would those links on the main page take you to the forum???  they are put there by your wp theme...

are you thinking canonical url??? that has nothing to do with the urls for the wp post...  the canonical url is a meta tag in the page html head tag...  it tells search engines where the real url you want to link to the page is...  and if I visit one of them, say the open letter one, and view the page source, you will see

<link rel="canonical" href="http://amoauto.com/forum/club-house/an-open-letter-to-drivers-motorists-on-the-public-roads1/" />

which is exactly what canonical urls do... but it doesnt change the page url output by your wp theme...

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Jan 18, 2012 - 7:30 pm

I see. What about the posting replies in the blog page and these replies not being replicated within the forum topic? Is this too suppose to happen. As I only get replies replicated into the wp blog page if made through the forums.

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Mr Papa
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Jan 18, 2012 - 7:45 pm

replies?  do you mean comments?  have you turned on the options and settings for comments to be added to the forum topic?

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Jan 18, 2012 - 8:03 pm

Ok after double checking I must have mistakenly turned that off. Works!

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