ElkArte as blog commnets?
Probably discussed before but couldn't find anything so asking ...
Has anyone used ElkArte as blog comments? If so how was it for you?
I'm looking for a forum that I can use both as a forum but also as blog comments.
Thanks!
Re: ElkArte as blog commnets?
Reply #1 –
You could set an individual board with read only permissions. It would effectively be a blog by doing so.
Re: ElkArte as blog commnets?
Reply #2 –
Sorry about the confusion.
I only need comments for the blog not the blog itself.
It would be nice to have comments part of the forums.
Re: ElkArte as blog commnets?
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So if I have a landingpage that looks like blog that is ElkArte forum somethingsomething and then I have my blog that I want to add commenting function and want to do that so those comments are threads in the forum ... how to merge these two?
Just like there are all those wp comments and disqus and what not. But I don't want to use those. I want those comments to be part of the forum content in form of threads.
Blog is made other means I don't need anything to do with it. Just comments section for the blog. Whole website is generated with Hugo and so is blog section also.
Or am I missing something in the translation here?
Re: ElkArte as blog commnets?
Reply #6 –
Would you consider just making the leap to straight forum? Everything described so far is a forum. Posted subject, and comments (replies). If you want emphasis on the original post, that could be accomplished with CSS styling. If you don't want others to have the ability to create a blog...er thread, simply revoke permissions accordingly. Elkarte software can already do everything you describe without interaction with any other platform. It can even be customized to include or hide info on said threads or posts.
Re: ElkArte as blog commnets?
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"Just that" means some coding.
Summarizing, what you have to do is:
1) any time a new blog post in created, create a new topic,
2) keep track somewhere of which topic belongs to which blog post,
3) from your blog, in the blog post/article page, you have to retrieve "somehow" (either inline or via some ajax call) the posts in the topic that belongs to the article.
That's more or less all.
Point 3 could be changed to a link from the blog post to the corresponding topic (that is one of the options I mentioned in my post).
Re: ElkArte as blog commnets?
Reply #9 –
I think it is very clear that ElkArte is an open source forum software and it is never intended to be a blog commenting system.
It is however possible if you want it to be the later, but you will have to integrate it with the intended blog software on your own costs.