The WordPress Discourse Widgets plugin is not working.
Can anyone here suggest a way of fixing it, maybe by editing it’s files ?
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The WordPress Discourse Widgets plugin is not working for some users. jidetheblogger is seeking help to fix it, possibly by editing its files. bts suggested an alternative plugin, WP Discourse Shortcodes, which is more actively maintained and supported by the Discourse team. simon, the creator of the alternative plugin, mentioned that the discourse_topics shortcode works well, but is unsure about the status of other shortcodes.
LittleLebowsky got the plugin working partially by adding a slash to the forum’s URL in the widget settings. However, the widget is only visible to the admin account and not to lower-level accounts. samshuai is experiencing the same issue. simon advised against using the WordPress Discourse Widgets plugin as it has not been updated in 3 years and is not maintained by the Discourse team.
Not sure why that one is no longer working, but you may want to try this one instead:
It’s created by @simon who is on the Discourse team and made the official WP Discourse plugin. In other words, more actively maintained / supported and likely to continue working for the long run!
A year ago, before I started working for Discourse, I did quite a lot of work on the plugin’s discourse_topics shortcode. I’m quite happy with the way it works. As far as I know, that is the shorcode that people are using. I’m unsure about the current state of the discourse_groups and discourse_prefilled_message shortcodes. I’ll take a look at them as soon as possible.
The topic that you linked to is very out of date. I’ll clean it up this week.
are these the only 2 plugins?
Hello! I got this plugin working. (well…sort of*)
What was your issue? In my case, this is the output the widget gave me after configuring:
Something went wrong: cURL error 6: Could not resolve host: myforum.comlatest.json
The simple fix for this was to add a slash in the widget settings at the end of forum’s URL, so instead of myforumsurl.com you type in myforumsurl.com/ as it seems there is a simple typo in the plugin itself. The plugin calls for myforumsurl.com/latest.json.
HOVEVER as I’ve mentioned in the beginning, I got it sorta working, but not really. The widget is only visible to my admin account, it disappears as I log out, it isn’t showing for lower level accounts either. I have no idea how to fix this one. Good luck.
me too.
pls fix it.
thx
The plugin at Discourse Widgets – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org is not maintained by the Discourse team. It was last updated 3 years ago. I would not recommend installing it on your site.