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Forum in a site

bloc75bloc75
edited January 2010 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8
Hi,

I have a client who needs a forum within a wordpress site. So basically I have the content area which will be the forum, and then sidebars for blog entries, and then the blog beneath the forum area.

Is it possible with Vanilla?

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    bloc75bloc75
    Anyone able to let me know here?
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    bloc75bloc75
    Ok, rethinking this.

    Can I publish a feed from the Vanilla forum and then have it display within a Div on a wordpress installation?
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    MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    With Vanilla 2 you'd need to create a theme for Vanilla that looks like your wordpress blog. It typically involves editing your master view and main style.css file to look like your blog, and then enabling that theme. We have a theming quick-start guide here: http://vanillaforums.org/page/ThemeQuickStart
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    MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    re: feeds - You can get at Vanilla feeds in this way, yes. For example, the feed for our main discussion list on this forum is here: http://vanillaforums.org/rss/discussions
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    bloc75bloc75
    Yeah that's pretty much what I need. To have the top 10 discussions listed on a central div, with a right sidebar for my blog entries.

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    MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    We don't have any out-of-the-box code for that, but I'm sure there must be some canned php code for grabbing rss feeds out there. Here's something I found on a quick search: http://ryanbosinger.com/blog/2009/grab-rss-feed-with-php/
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    bloc75bloc75
    Oh right, well I'm basically looking for an out of the box simple solution. I notice on this forum you have something called Recent Activity? That's pretty much what I want.
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    LincLinc Detroit Admin
    edited January 2010
    Doesn't Wordpress have a built-in widget for displaying an RSS feed's content? I know it has MagPie built in, which is RSS-grabbing software, and there are plugins for that at the very least.

    A more elegant solution would be a plugin that grabs latest Discussions directly from the database, but that doesn't exist (yet).
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    bloc75bloc75
    Well what's Recent Activity? That seems to be a way to grab the latest discussions.
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    lucluc ✭✭
    That's nothing like the discussions.
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    bloc75bloc75
    What does recent activity pull? Forum posts isn't it?
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    lucluc ✭✭
    No.
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    sauravhsauravh
    kjk
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    bloc75bloc75
    edited January 2010
    Right, so my next question would be, is there an RSS feed for Forum discussions?
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    lucluc ✭✭
    Activities.

    Just look what in it in the community forum, it does what it says on the tin..
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    bloc75bloc75
    Yeah I know, I moved on.

    I'm just wondering if there is an rss feed for forum posts.
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    lucluc ✭✭
    It's easy to say you moved on, when you just edit your post to completely change it...
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    bloc75bloc75
    Why are you arguing with me? All I wanted to know is if I can grab an rss feed of latest posts.

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