Long form content
Wondering if people are posting long-form content in their communities on a post in order to drive people to the community and comment on the post, or if you're just doing teasers that link off to a blog post, for example.
I'm still smoothing the process, but I'm displaying my blog within the community and using https://fluentcommunityaddons.com/product/community-comments/ to link the comments to community posts.
You can see it in action at https://buildyour.community/articles/
Jonathan Gwyer Awesome, I'll check that out. Thanks.
Jonathan Gwyer Since the pages on FluentCommunity add-ons tend to not have any info about the add-on at all, can you go into a bit more detail about how it works? I don't (yet) have FC add-ons so I'd like to learn a bit more about how the commenting option works.
Couple of questions:
- When you publish a blog post, is it through Wordpress or some FC area?
- When a blog post is published, does a post in FC get automatically created that is then tied to that post, or do you have to manually map that yourself?
Thanks.
Bob I blog as usual, but comments are replaced with a widget for FC replies.
Every time a blog is published, an FC post is created (you can set different discussion spaces for different blog categories) and you can comment in either location.
Making the blog appear "seamless" within the community took a lot of CSS, but it starts to bring it together.
I'm looking to do similar for a client who is trying to encourage her members to comment on her exercise videos.
Jonathan Gwyer Gotcha, thank you!
Jonathan Gwyer What add-on are you using specifically to bring posts into the community? Is it the Pages (Post Types) for FluentCommunity or something else?
Bob you just need one of the snippets at https://github.com/WPManageNinja/fluent-community-docs/blob/master/theme-compatibility.md
Jonathan Gwyer Thanks, I'll check that out.