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Wordpress Plugin for AppMakr Comments Now Available for Free
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posted this on August 29, 2010 03:31 pm
AppMakr Post Comment Wordpress plugin now available
We are excited to find that a Wordpress developer (Mike) has created a Wordpress plugin that maks it super easy to add the needed backend for AppMakrs Post Message feature.
Download it and install the plugin to your Wordpress blog here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=AppMakr+Comments+Plugin
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Is this only for self-hosted wordpress sites or can wordpress.com hosted sites utilize this??
something for Joomla please ? :°
I can't get this plugin to work for the life of me.
First off, thanks to Adam for plowing through the process. Creating a custom submission form isn't trival to new developers and adding the software component and a Wordpress backend can make small problems seem that much harder to track. So Kudos for tracking 'em down ad coming out ahead.
Before I get into some debuggung tips please try and use the built in AppMakr Message system:
http://help.appmakr.com/entries/244498-post-message-tab-using-appma...
It is there precisely to take out the complexities of coding up a form submissions system for our users. You can be up and running in minutes with not one need for a single line of code :)
Okay, so that being said:
It's not easy debugging someone eses site but if you post the url of the form page you are submitting to or attaching the code it may help us or our users give you a hand. The system seems to be working on our end so see if you cant take some steps to track down what's "is" happening before you try to code some logic around it, just a dev tip as debugging can take 80% of dev time it's good to know some tricks ;) example: try making a page that runs log statements to a file so you can see the post traffic coming to the page. OR have a simple custom page the app is posting to do nothing more than add a comment without excepting any params. Meaning hard code the variables for the post message function. If that doesn't work something different is amiss than you think. On this forum posts there are some code snippets you can mess with. It isn;t a plugin, simply a page you can add to your server that allows you to mess with the post form the phone.
Good luck, and remember if all else fails use the build in AppMakr Message System to track messages posted. (note: we will be adding web widgets and rss feeds to that system shortly)
...sorry, forgot to add...
The commenter name shouldn't matter. I changed mine to "Voice of the Community" and it still works. As a reminder, use the caps in ID....lowercase id won't work (at least that's my experience).
Ian,
My post message url does not validate in the AppMakr Dashboard either. I had to create a build and put it on my phone. Do that and then try again. That's all I can think of that might be different between our two situations for testing.
My page is published and I am not even trying to hide it. You just can't navigate to it through the menu. Everything seems to check out. It still fails to validate. I created a build with both ID and id. Neither work... Do I need to do something PhP side, could it be that I want admin to post the comment instead of AppComment?
Hi Ian,
"I can't get my thread to validate in the maker itself but when I publish the app and try to send a message I get successful but no error or message shows up in the page that I specified."
This is what I was experiencing also before my fix. The app seemed to send the message successfully (from my phone by the way, not the appmakr app simulator), but then I would never get a notice of a new comment.
"All i did was install the plug in and create a new page to send the comments to."
That's what I did too, but the trick for me seemed to be just the difference between the lowercase "id" and uppercase "ID". If I were you, I would triple check a few things...
Make sure comments are enabled on your install, and also on that specific page.
Make sure the page is actually in the "published" state. (Mine is but I'm hiding it with the Exclude Pages plugin for now).
Make sure you've got the right page ID.
The url I am using for the post message tab is:
http://www.mysite.com/?comment_post_ID=958
Please post back here and let us all know your results. I'm off to open a new thread to suggest a proper forum!!! :)
I gave that a try Adam and it did not seem to work for me at all. I can't get my thread to validate in the maker itself but when I publish the app and try to send a message I get successful but no error or message shows up in the page that I specified. Am I missing a step? All i did was install the plug in and create a new page to send the comments to.
I GOT IT! I apologize to the plugin maker Mike, it seems it was a type, but not an easily recognizable one if you're not an avid WP dev....I think the problem was that the url I was putting in the post message tab was slightly off. The ID in the /?comment_post_ID=958 part was wrong...it was a lower case id instead of an uppercase ID. Could something that minor hork up the the whole works? I think so...
...give this a try Charles and see what happens.
WooooHoooo!
Hi all,
I sure hope someone can help us out here. I am having the same experience as Charles, unfortunately the plugin does not seem to work with posts or pages. Message sent, but never a comment received...also no debugging email received. I have tested the original process here:
http://help.appmakr.com/entries/213668-adding-wordpress-code-to-acc...
...and am getting results when submitting through the test page. The result were numbers, 1504 on first submission, 1505 on second, 1506 on third.
I appreciate all the work that has gone into this, but I'm afraid this plugin may not be working as intended or there is something in our WP comment settings not allowing this to work (although I should be getting the debug emails).
Anyway, if anyone has any further advice on what we could try, I know I would appreciate greatly. I am trying to retain this post message feature before submitting my very first app....as you can imagine, I'm basically climbing at the walls! Ha!
Adam
I did the same as Charles Terry, except I created a page, not a post. My app says sent successfully, but no comment in my admin area. I'll try a post, but it shouldn't make a diff. should it?
I've also turned on debugging in the AppMakr Comments settings, but haven't seen any debugging emails yet.
I contacted Mike, the plugin author through his contact form with a couple questions. I'll post back when I learn something more...
I just purchased my developer license today and was DELIGHTED to find that (Mike) has made this plugin for WordPress-powered sites. I'm so anxious to try it out and will most definitely post back here with my experience.
Thanks Mike! ....and thanks AppAMakr team!!!
If you are like me and are running Spam filters in your functions.php file, make sure they don't block comments that don't have a referrer, otherwise your comments will not appear in the comments area as was the cause of my problem.
I'm not sure what's going on, but I can't get your plugin working. Tell me if I've got this wrong.
1. I installed the plugin to my site.
2. Added the name "AppComment" for the AppMaker Comment Author name in the settings section.
3. Created a post called "App Comments". It's post ID is 243
4. Created a new app build with the form pointing to my site url with the /? included with the ID of the post. (http://www.mysite.com/?comment_post_id=243)
When I load the app and send the comment, it says sent successfully, but my comment doesn't appear in the "Comments" area. Not under approved, Spam, Trash, or anything. Can you tell me what I'm not doing correctly so I can get this working.