Is there anyway to redirect the Wordpress post to the VB forum for comments. I have a wordpress and i also have a forum on the main site. So i want people that want to comment to go to the forum. But if i post the same post in the forum it will be duplicate right? I just want a short snip maybe and let people comment in the forum. Any advice or suggestions?
Give this plugin a look: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/ You can just create a page in Wordpress, point it to your forum, and when people navigate to that page, they will be sent to the forum instead.
Just make the post in the blog, and on the forum write up a quick summary. Have them link to each other (to read more and comment, click here to go to the forums - to see the original post on the blog, click here to go to the blog) and turn off commenting on the posts in WP where you want them to use the forum for discussion instead. Put them all in their own section of the forum where only the admin can create new threads. I have personally done it before and it works just fine. It sounds like you want the same thing that I wanted, for people to end up using the forums at first for comments and, then since they are registered and are used to it, they start using it to create their own threads. It worked great for me and I saw a huge boost to forum use. I even recommended it to a few other people in the past and they all loved the results they saw. At worst, spend a few days doing it to see if you feel it is worth the time it takes to input the links and write up a small summary for the forums. If you want the forum integrated right into the blog, something like replacing the blog comments with forum comments on the blog page, I don't know of a plugin off-hand that will allow for it to work the way you want, but there may be one out there so spend a little time looking. What you can try doing is using googleoff/googleon tags if you want to fully duplicate the content but want to avoid a penalty. You can read more about it here: http://code.google.com/apis/searchappliance/documentation/46/admin_crawl/Preparing.html#pagepart Using that, you can tell Google that you want it to ignore the text inside the tags for the purposes of indexing. It will still crawl the text but it should stop Google from trying to list it in search results, helping to protect you from duplicate content penalties.
Ok, i will try something like that. Maybe add some kind of Facebook application at the end so they can log in with Facebook at the Wordpress and VB. Is there any plug in to share the users on these to?
I did some looking and this may work for you. http://www.lampwrights.com/forumdisplay.php?f=13 The top sticky thread is where you can find the official release info. The rest of the forum is just where users can discuss it. It is designed for vB 3.8 but it looks like it is capable of integrating with vB 4.x so, if you feel comfortable after reading up on it, give it a shot and hopefully it works for you.
This one is great http://www.lampwrights.com/showthread.php?t=41 i am even using classipress but it says working only for 3.0.4
I think the integration will be easier if you use BBPress instead of VB. can not provide you exact link to prove that.