Might be more of a WP question but is there any way to bulk “Publish to Discourse” a large number of posts? I have 200 posts I want to publish to discourse to enable discourse comments but can’t figure out how to access the discourse menu options from the bulk edit feature in WP.

[image] agf1997: but can’t figure out how to access the discourse menu options from the bulk edit feature in WP. There are no Discourse options added to the WordPess bulk edit options by the plugin. It would be possible to develop something to publish your posts through the API, but for 200 p…

That’s what I suspected … thanks.

I know this is an old post, but i’ve done the following to bulk publish: Configured a default category in “Publishing > Default Discourse Category” Enable “Auto Publish” Bulk select posts and re-select “status” to “published” This will trigger the auto publish feature, despite the fact posts may …

[image] KCAS: Bulk select posts and re-select “status” to “published” edit: such an operation is not recommended and not supported by Discourse.

Just a general reminder that bulk publish from Wordpress to Discourse using the WP Discourse plugin is not recommended and is not supported. The proper way to handle this is to perform a database migration.

Thanks. I did start manually by re-publishing each blog post. But 1 hour in, I realized it would take several days to do it manually. Are there inherent risk or things I should doublcheck after bulk re-publishing existing blog posts to their connected Discourse topics?

Sorry, but, as mentioned, such an operation is not recommended and not supported. If I were to give you tips on how to do it I’d be encouraging it, which is not what I want to do :slight_smile:

[image] Angus McLeod: it I’d be encouraging it I understand. Its already completed. I didn’t know it was not recommended etc, so I was mainly asking if there’s anything I should be aware of. Of course, if I had known before that it was not recommended etc., then I could have approached it di…

[image] Angus McLeod: The proper way to handle this is to perform a database migration. This is however built in functionality of the plugin and wordpress, and does work. It’s also the only documented solution for it. While this can caused an increased load, bulk publishing 5 posts isn’t rea…

Bulk publishing from Wordpress to Discourse using the WP Discourse plugin is not recommended. I would recommend you handle that such a case with a database migration, which is supported by Discourse out of the box and handled by all Discourse hosting providers, including Discourse.org . [image] K…

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haydenjames (Hayden James) November 10, 2024, 9:46pm 5

edit: such an operation is not recommended and not supported by Discourse.

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