My embedded forum not showing up

shawnw · October 2010

This discussion is related to the <Embed> Vanilla addon.

I have an installation of Vanilla Forums at http://graygamers.com. I'm trying to embed it at http://gamingnext.com/social and, while the install seems to have went OK in WordPress with no errors, no forum shows up. It's just an empty page.

shawnw · October 2010

Bumping for help. Please?

Tim · October 2010

This is a bug we've noticed where sometimes Wordpress incorrectly adds backslashes to the embed code. Check the addon settings screen and see if there are backslashes in front of the doublequotes.

We're working on a good fix, but for now your only recourse is to manually alter the wp_options table entry for vanilla_embed and paste an un-escaped version of the embed text there.

Rajio · October 2010

I'm having a similar issue. Basically only the header portion of my forum is showing up:

http://www.ohmpage.ca/test/

(original forum at delayofgame.ca)

Somehow I think maybe its something I'm doing? Or something I've done with ohmpage.ca's theme? Note I've inserted it by making a 'page' not, using any plugin.

Rajio · October 2010

Hrm when I try

script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.vanillaforums.com/plugins/embedvanilla/remote.js">

It works fine.

I've tried this on another friend's site too with the same results. Could it be something to do with my vanilla installation perhaps?

Tim · October 2010

Does your theme use any absolutely positioned elements? This could affect how vanilla calculates its own "height".

Rajio · October 2010

It might, I'll have to check. I just modified the colours of the default theme though and didn't change any positioning. that sounds like a plausable culprit though.

By the way, Where can I find that "Embed-Friendly Theme" mentioned on the plugin's settings page?

Mark · October 2010

@Rajio - You can get the embed-friendly theme bundled with the latest copy of Vanilla at: http://vanillaforums.org/download

I had a feeling that the bug was related to your custom theme, and I think @Tim just confirmed it.

Tim · October 2010

We discovered that for some reason your forum is not internally aware of its own height.

To fix this, open themes/default/design/custom.css and go to line 23:

#Body {
    ...
}

Inside that style, add the following:

overflow: hidden;
height: 100%

Rajio · October 2010

EDIT: Problem solved. I just forgot to press upload when I edited the CSS. That fixes it perectly. Thanks!

Mark · October 2010

Sweet!

Bogus · October 2010

Hi ;)

I have the same foul under Drupal http://dev.as4u.de/vanilla211 The plugin have I today here download. The example from the plugin going on my Drupal 7.

Edit: I have now fix the css file, but the forum is not there ..
http://www.drulabor.de/node/3

Bogus · October 2010

The embed generared code was wrong
wrong in the plugin ...http://dev.as4u.de/vanilla211/index.php?p=/plugins/embedvanilla

rigth is http://dev.as4u.de/vanilla211/plugins/embedvanilla

Now showing up the vanilla on my drupal 7 website

Edit: My way is wrong ;( The dashboard was not found ....

pbasuel · April 2011

I'm having the same issues with a site. My embed code looks just fine and the fixes above don't seem to help. Would appreciate any insight. Thanks!

Embedded: http://illinoisprep.com/message-boards
Full Forum: http://illinoisprep.com/forums/

jiyef · May 2011

Same issue for me. Unable to embed vanilla on a forum page. I've try with the '' default '' wordpress theme too. No change... :(

Howdy, Stranger!

Categories

In this Discussion

My embedded forum not showing up

Comments