How to integrate Vanilla WordPress plugins and widgets

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How to integrate Vanilla WordPress plugins and widgets

Our latest release, as of this post date, comes with many new features including a suite of WordPress plugins and widgets to help you better integrate Vanilla Forums with WordPress. In this tutorial I will walk you through the basics steps required ...

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DanielSchulzJackson

This article would be great if it weren't so very out of date...

(that rhymed)

DanielSchulzJackson

Also I should add that this isn't working for me :-/

Not even after disabling all plugins, verifying URL in the plugin, and reverting to Twenty Eleven

glennhubbers

The Vanilla plugin seems like a great idea. If only it worked.
I have searched extensively for a solution, but no matter what I try I cannot get the "Remote URL" fields to appear, so I cannot integrate the Vanilla Forun into my blog, which is sort of the point.

Lincoln

@glennhubbers You can manually set the Remote URL via your config file. Add this to conf/config.php:

$Configuration['Plugins']['EmbedVanilla']['RemoteUrl'] = 'your url';

glennhubbers

Thanks Lincoln. In looking within the conf/ folder I can see a readme.txt file that says there should be a config.php file in it. But there is no file there to edit. Do you know why this would be?
Is there somewhere I can locate this file to insert it here?

glennhubbers

OK, so I created a config.php file and copied the code below and now it is working. However, I can't seem to get the Embed-Friendly theme (or any theme other than the default) to work without getting a "Bonk" error. Any thoughts on this?
And if I can't resolve that, I'm looking for a way to change the width of my embedded forum to match the content width within my Wordpress page. As it is now my sidebar is half cut off.

Lincoln

Hi Glenn, please follow up on vanillaforums.org for getting additional help with your open source installation from the community.