Howdy! A reader has pointed out something strange to me. A comment that used numbers on my Discourse site is showing up as letters on my Wordpress site : [2020-02-28_19-04-02] [2020-02-28_19-00-45] Is this a known issue with the Discourse plugin? Is it just my Wordpress install? Please let me k…

[image] alexwoolfson: Is this a known issue with the Discourse plugin? I just tested this and got the same result as you. The cause of it is the default WordPress style for ol ol (numbered lists that are inside of a numbered list): ol ol { list-style: lower-alpha; } Since WordPress comm…

[image] alexwoolfson: The same reader also lamented that the Spoiler Plugin on Discourse doesn’t translate over to Wordpress and that it’s not clear what comments are replies to what, but I don’t know if anything can be done about the former, and I know the latter is already on your radar I a…

I understand the attraction, but … the downside is that Discourse is an extremely heavy dependency – you’d be pulling across about 1 megabyte of gnarly interpreted javascript just to display a static list of comments. Sort of like killing a fly with a nuclear bomb. There’s a reason we consistently …

[image] codinghorror: you’d be pulling across about 1 megabyte of gnarly interpreted javascript just to display a static list of comments. What I’m proposing is to have the WordPress plugin add our javascript embed code to posts programmatically. I assume that’s similar to what you are doing …

[image] simon: Since WordPress comments are displayed inside of a numbered list, this style rule will be applied to numbered lists in comments unless it is overridden. Howdy Simon! Thank you for the quick reply. :slight_smile: I do think it might make sense to add that list-style suggestion t…

Numbered list changed to lettered list in comments on Wordpress

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) February 29, 2020, 8:25pm 3

This has nothing to do with Discourse — it is the CSS rules on your site.

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