Subreddit feed query

Hi @dholurockstar,

Thanks for reaching out.

You’re asking if it is possible to display the latest sub-reddit items somewhere on the frontend of your website, possibly styled in the same way it would be on reddit?

Is that correct?

Here’s the quick answer. The Radle plugin in its current capabilities does not provide this feature. Rather what it does is, as you highlighted, only will show discussion from a singular topic in a subreddit that was created using Radle from within a WordPress blog post. This allows blog posts to have a corresponding subreddit post that will power all of its discussion.

We do show the latest subreddit posts in a list inside the Radle settings page, but this is only designed to be a novel confirmation that the connection to the subreddit is good.

Would you mind describing exactly what you would like in as much detail as possible here? I’m open to considering adding your request into the plugin.

Hi @dholurockstar,

Thanks for the explanation. So you would like the asset to:

1) List all topics related to a subreddit
2) Allow the user to authenticate with write access to the users account.
2) Allow user to navigate into a topic, and contribute comments to the topic from the WordPress site, from a custom comment area connected to the Reddit API.

There’s an issue here that I ran into with Radle. If a users grants authorization with the submit scope, then they will be providing your application with the ability to publish as them across the entire Reddit ecosystem. This requires a great deal of trust, a level most people would not be comfortable with.

In my personal opinion, its not something users will want to do and the amount of trust it requires will limit the application use case making it not attractive as a plugin to develop and distribute. If your users are your friends and they trust you, it may make a perfectly fine custom solution.

Rather than provide a custom UX for the Reddit API that is oAuth connected and allows for posting to reddit directly from the WordPress website, you could approach this in the same way I’ve made Radle, and just show the content of the subreddit (this does not require users to SSO because it will leverage one api key provided by the owner of the plugin to read the subreddit) — and then for any publishing activity you could send the reader directly to the reddit app.

Thoughts so far?

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1. If a regular user/member of a the subreddit will post on the subreddit itself. Would it create a post here on my website? Or is it limited to my/moderator posting only?

It depends on how the integration was setup.

The two ways I would imagine it working is:

1) On page load, poll the Reddit API and load the data, cache it, and render it on your front end.

2) Create a synchronization system that imports the data into a custom post type or custom table. The latter would be for deeper integration into WordPress’s core features such as post management, archiving, etc.

Both would be a significant project, and I believe outside the scope of what I would be willing to do for the free version of Radle, and I am not sure the demand would be high enough to justify adding this as a Pro feature to Radle pro.

Would make a fun custom project, it would cost several grand to have someone from my team do it.

The most I could offer for Radle free is a very simple rendering of the latest topics, like you see inside the settings. Drilling down into topics might be possible, too.

2. The comment system affects globally? So if set to “radle” for example, how can users comment on posts that existed before the installation of the plugin? I believe i saw “Comments Disabled” on my already existing posts when i chose “radle” comment system.

You would need to go into those old posts and create subreddit topics for them. Otherwise, with Radle enabeld, comments would stay disabled unless they have a topic on reddit.

If this is an eye sore, I could improve the plugin to remove the “Comments disabled” message on these posts with no integration. Or if you linked me to one of the posts, I might could advise how to do this with CSS rules.

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I have an update. I managed to run a simple HTML code to pull the reddit feed to my website. You can see it here: Feed link
Try a page refresh if it doesn’t load in first try. (Should you wish to integrate it in your plugin as a “block” or something, please feel free to ask. I’d be happy to share the code)

Thanks! Someone might reach out here. We appreciate it!

1. With radle sync established, how would the discussion work. Will the comments made on my website post (synced to reddit via radle) update to reddit themselves, or the discussion has to happen at reddit itself? Forgive me if this feels a repetitive question.

Basically Radle offloads all commenting/posting to Reddit, while allowing reading/synching/displaying to be synced to the WordPress page.

So we can read, sort, and search from the blog, but if the reader wants to interact further (such as create a comment) they will need to open the post up through their reddit app, which all our links on the WordPress/blog side link to the reddit post.

Does that make sense?