RSSForumView: How to turn WP blogs into forums (well, kinda)
Put together on November 1, 2007 9:56 pm by Thomas
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We are very proud to introduce, Downloads, a new section for our blog which will include the various projects we have been working on. First in line is ForumView, the fruit of our part-time labour for the past couple of weeks. ForumView is a Wordpress plugin enabling you to display comments on your blog grouped by most recent discussion, like in forums.
This basically means that the top post is that where the most recent comment has been made. Beneath that post its comments follow in chronological order. Then, the next post follows along with its comments and so on. That way the most discussed upon posts float to the top (together with their comments) regardless of when the discussion has taken place. And it’s all presented in a nice, Gmail-like and colorful interface:)
So, feel free to give it a go and share your impressions – the code is still in beta and could do with improvements.
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tulip:
You're right!It sounds funny, but a search engine providing people with questions would be helpful, but only for the sake of learning how to think, so that someone will get used to wanting to know more about a specific subject...On the other hand when someone wants to learn something fast, it would be rational to just stick to the old...
You're right!It sounds funny, but a search engine providing people with questions would be helpful, but only for the sake of learning how to think, so that someone will get used to wanting to know more about a specific subject...On the other hand when someone wants to learn something fast, it would be rational to just stick to the old... - 6 months ago
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Dimitris:
Yes, strictly educational purposes aside, a question search engine is appropriate for more long-term goals, not just to look up a piece of info. If someone wanted to write up an in-depth analysis, a report or some kind of detailed exploration of an issue, they would benefit from such a tool - which I admit is perhaps somewhat too early to consider.
Yes, strictly educational purposes aside, a question search engine is appropriate for more long-term goals, not just to look up a piece of info. If someone wanted to write up an in-depth analysis, a report or some kind of detailed exploration of an issue, they would benefit from such a tool - which I admit is perhaps somewhat too early to consider. - 6 months ago
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Tom Kehoe:
We at YayTrail (http://www.yaytrail.com) love the idea of a universal, cross-website content platform, a way to 'mash up' sites. But we disliked the implementations in these kinds of services. We didn't like that there's a big sidebar taking up screen real estate. We didn't like the idea of sticky-notes living on layers on top of - and often obscuring - the original page. We think these characteristics have kind of helped give annotation a bit of a bad name and limited more casual adoption and traction.We therefore decided to make a tool that strips away the things we didn't like about existing services. To do this, we've worked on technology that allows the user to enhance pages in-line. The user's content lives as a native part of the page, not 'out-of-line' in a side bar or non-native content layer. In the 'first layer' as you put it. We think that gives a different level of control and power to the user, gives a different value to their content, and rids us of the heavyweight UI elements of previous services in one swoop. We let people share their enhancements with others...so you can follow people of interest, and their enhancements get merged into your view of the web. We're still really raw ( pre-start-up) but that's our vision. You can try out our preview if you wish, with FireFox at http://www.yaytrail.com. Please also take a look at our introductory brief at http://www.yaytrail.com/brief/dec09 and what our users are saying at http://yaytrail.blogspot.com/Thanks for your time and I hope to see you soon on YayTrail.Tom Kehoe
We at YayTrail (http://www.yaytrail.com) love the idea of a universal, cross-website content platform, a way to 'mash up' sites. But we disliked the implementations in these kinds of services. We didn't like that there's a big sidebar taking up screen real estate. We didn't like the idea of sticky-notes living on layers on top of - and often obscuring - the original page. We think these characteristics have kind of helped give annotation a bit of a bad name and limited more casual adoption and traction.
We therefore decided to make a tool that strips away the things we didn't like about existing services. To do this, we've worked on technology that allows the user to enhance pages in-line. The user's content lives as a native part of the page, not 'out-of-line' in a side bar or non-native content layer. In the 'first layer' as you put it. We think that gives a different level of control and power to the user, gives a different value to their content, and rids us of the heavyweight UI elements of previous services in one swoop. We let people share their enhancements with others...so you can follow people of interest, and their enhancements get merged into your view of the web.
We're still really raw ( pre-start-up) but that's our vision. You can try out our preview if you wish, with FireFox at http://www.yaytrail.com. Please also take a look at our introductory brief at http://www.yaytrail.com/brief/dec09 and what our users are saying at http://yaytrail.blogspot.com/
Thanks for your time and I hope to see you soon on YayTrail.
Tom Kehoe - 8 months ago
We therefore decided to make a tool that strips away the things we didn't like about existing services. To do this, we've worked on technology that allows the user to enhance pages in-line. The user's content lives as a native part of the page, not 'out-of-line' in a side bar or non-native content layer. In the 'first layer' as you put it. We think that gives a different level of control and power to the user, gives a different value to their content, and rids us of the heavyweight UI elements of previous services in one swoop. We let people share their enhancements with others...so you can follow people of interest, and their enhancements get merged into your view of the web.
We're still really raw ( pre-start-up) but that's our vision. You can try out our preview if you wish, with FireFox at http://www.yaytrail.com. Please also take a look at our introductory brief at http://www.yaytrail.com/brief/dec09 and what our users are saying at http://yaytrail.blogspot.com/
Thanks for your time and I hope to see you soon on YayTrail.
Tom Kehoe - 8 months ago
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vrypan:
Or, use Google Reader's "share with note" notes :-)
Or, use Google Reader's "share with note" notes :-) - last year
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Dimitris:
Thanks for the comment vrypan. That sure is an option but whoever accesses the site through means other than Google Reader (e.g. twitter, other RSS reader, etc) misses that added content (and value). It's way better if the short version stays in the website it refers to. Or even better (?), writing a summary could optionally initiate an update of the RSS feed.
Thanks for the comment vrypan. That sure is an option but whoever accesses the site through means other than Google Reader (e.g. twitter, other RSS reader, etc) misses that added content (and value). It's way better if the short version stays in the website it refers to. Or even better (?), writing a summary could optionally initiate an update of the RSS feed. - last year
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vrypan:
I meant one could write a program to find the Google Reader notes and bring them back to your site automatically.
I meant one could write a program to find the Google Reader notes and bring them back to your site automatically. - last year
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Dimitris:
Yes, Google Reader is a good place to start as lots of people use it, it is based on 'the real web' (i.e. is not inside a walled-garden) and it should be easy to process the 'shared notes' it offers. Other services may be possible or useful to add after that.
Yes, Google Reader is a good place to start as lots of people use it, it is based on 'the real web' (i.e. is not inside a walled-garden) and it should be easy to process the 'shared notes' it offers. Other services may be possible or useful to add after that. - last year
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What Are We Missing? Or Who’s Missing Us?...Robert Scoble asks, What are the tech bloggers missing? Your business!The post hit a nerve with me. Robert is absolutely right!As I read my RSS feeds on a daily basis, I’m tired of the same crap over and over again. Are Microsoft and Yahoo! t...
What Are We Missing? Or Who’s Missing Us?...
Robert Scoble asks, What are the tech bloggers missing? Your business!
The post hit a nerve with me. Robert is absolutely right!
As I read my RSS feeds on a daily basis, I’m tired of the same crap over and over again. Are Microsoft and Yahoo! t... - last year
Robert Scoble asks, What are the tech bloggers missing? Your business!
The post hit a nerve with me. Robert is absolutely right!
As I read my RSS feeds on a daily basis, I’m tired of the same crap over and over again. Are Microsoft and Yahoo! t... - last year
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well done guys! After all this is your first actual piece of work together and it should be celebrated as such. As you may know I am not a wordpress girl but I must say that ForumView seems very helpful and a lot of fun!
[...] ForumView enables you to display comments on your blog grouped by most recent discussion, like in forums. [...]
sounds really great, i think that it would be useful if you provide us with a testcase/playground to see it rocking.
[...] ForumView enables you to display comments on your blog grouped by most recent discussion, like in forums. [...]
I’d really like to see this as a widget — i’m having trouble getting it into my sidebar since I use widgets
i’m having trouble integrating this into my widget sidebar… do you have a widget to display this?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: str_ireplace()
that is the error i get when trying to implement into the sidebar… please let me know how to fix this– it’s a very nice looking script that could be very useful.
yea i get the same fatal error deal.
I’m getting this error on my sidebar when I try to use it. I am using the K2 wordpress theme on my site if that helps.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: str_ireplace() in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-forumview/wp-forumview.php on line 138
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I’m getting the same error as those above…
Guys, thanks for the feedback. I’ll look into this and get back to you.
Ok, it seems that the function str_ireplace() is PHP5 only, so this is a version issue. I replaced it with str_replace() (no real need for case insensitivity) which also works for PHP4.
Can you please give it another go to check if it works? Letting me know which PHP version you’re running would also help a lot, as I can make a workaround for much older versions if need be.
Again, thanks for trying it out
I’m Still getting
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: str_ireplace() in /home/content/d/a/r/darkside1/html/jewsby/wp-content/plugins/wp-forumview/wp-forumview.php on line 137
Ok, development in cyber cafes is not the best thing. I included the file in the wrong place in the zip. Apologies for that.
It’s been fixed now. Let me know if it works please.
Thanks,
Thomas.
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Now I get this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: date_default_timezone_set() in /home/prayer81/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-forumview/wp-forumview.php on line 331
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This is amazing! Just built it into my site.
(Btw: I had the same problem as Matt:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: date_default_timezone_set() in /home/prayer81/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-forumview/wp-forumview.php on line 331
I solved it… by deleting the line…)
Oh, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Thanks for the comment Fabian and a Happy New Year to you too!
I checked out your website and looks like ForumView fits in quite nicely! I was particularly worried about other layouts and how the plugin would work, since we didn’t have the time to test more than 15-20 templates. Very proud to see our work being used like that.
The date_default_timezone_set function is another PHP version 5 function so it was naturally messing things up. I’ve removed the function (commented it out) and hopefully that won’t cause any problems.
If the time reported in your site looks wrong, please let me know and I’ll take a better look.
Hey!
I was wondering: is there a way to exclude comments from private posts?
Hello, Fabian. I think it’s probably possible… The next version of ForumView (due soon) will definitely include this option if you feel it’d be useful.
Thanks for dropping by.