Thanks so much for this plugin. I’ve been using it for about 6 months without any trouble, but my latest posts didn’t result in a new Discourse topic being automatically created upon publication. I checked everything in the editor against the last posts that did work and I can’t find any differences.
Up in the top right corner, where it says “Publish to Discourse”, the box is ticked for the appropriate category and the post published just fine otherwise, but no new topic…
Could you try publishing a post from WordPress and then looking at the error logs on Discourse (go to admin/logs and then click on ‘Error Logs’.) Is there any sign that the post is being posted to Discourse? Look for something like Started PUT "/posts/216" for ...
My forum is linked to a member-only site. My developer has been using the Discourse SSO plugin to ensure only up to date members can view and comment on the forum. He developed a custom plugin to work in conjunction with it so refunded or expired members wouldn’t continue to have access. I know he was using user trust levels to make that happen. I think his plugin would check user status in the membership plugin, then coordination with Discourse.
We set the forum up so that members instantly had a user trust level that permitted them to view, comment and create new posts. I think, to make his plugin work, he “upped” the minimum user level and gave everyone that new level.
Anyway, obviously I don’t really know what I’m talking about, but it seems, from the error message that his plugin in likely the source of the problem. Do you think I should try manually changing my trust level or something like that, or do I just need to contact him?
It might be causing the problem, but something similar to this came up recently with another user of the wp-discourse plugin. I wasn’t able to reproduce it myself, so it’s hard to know what’s going on.
Would it be possible to disable the custom plugin for a few minutes and see if you are still getting the same error when you try to publish a post to Discourse?
Maybe you could try something else first. Deactivating a plugin will not delete its settings, but it’s possible that something else on your site is depending on that plugin being active, so it could have some unintended consequences.
Are you an admin user on both the WordPress site and the Discourse forum? If so, could you try doing this:
on Discourse, create a new API key for your user:
go to admin/users/your-username
look for the API Key setting on that page
click ‘Generate’
copy the generated API key into the WP Discourse ‘API Key’ input (found on the ‘Connection’ tab of the WP Discourse options.)
enter your Discourse username into the ‘Publishing Username’ field in the WP Discourse options.
click the ‘Save Options’ button at the bottom of that page
After doing this, are you able to publish a post? Let me know if any of this isn’t clear.
When I update the settings with the new API key I get an error message in WP-Discourse header saying I’m not connected to Discourse. When I revert back to the API key that was in there, the message disappears and I get “you are connected” message.
Was there something I was supposed to do on Discourse after generating the API? I looked for a save settings buttons there but couldn’t find anything.
When you entered the new API key in the WP Discourse plugin, did you also change the ‘Publishing Username’? It needs to match the username on Discourse that you generated the API key for.
What happens if you change the Discourse Username on your WordPress profile to KimMcKenney? (Make sure you click ‘update profile’ after making the change.)
