I have a head-scratcher that I can’t seem to figure out. From what I see, post id’s are not always syncing across to our Discourse site (forum.pistolsfiringblog.com) from the Wordpress site (pistolsfiringblog.com) causing comments to fail loading on the Wordpress posts along with the option to comment (we do not allow WP comments, only Discourse). A good example is the following post: WP: Coleman Scott Joins Oklahoma State Wrestling Staff as Associate Head Coach Discourse: Coleman Scott Joins Oklahoma State Wrestling Staff as Associate Head Coach - #4 by MiggityMac - PFB Articles - The Chamber Even though comments are allowed on the post, the post_id is coming across undefined. I did a little diving into the Discourse Wordpress plugin and it just returns when id is undefined. That’s fine and to be expected. Nothing stood out. However, other posts on the site display comments while others do not. The settings are the exact same as the no-show posts (I’ve intently compared). If I try to force the id into the webhook call https://pistolsfiringblog.com/wp-json/wp-discourse/v1/discourse-comments?post_id=259952 I get: "\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t Comments are not currently available for this post. \n\t\t\t \n\t\t \n\t\t" …Which is completely not true. They are available and they are allowed. For whatever reason beyond me, I can not see my certain posts are not getting a post id to link/relate to the corresponding discourse post so that comments can flow across to WP. To complicate things, I did a test post as one of our editors would do and watched the entire process from WP post to Discourse and back to WP even with additional comments from Discourse. They all sync’d back to WP on my test post. I’ve attached screenshots of the main issue (not limited to just one post). Any help is highly appreciated. At this point, I am at a complete loss. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [Screenshot 2023-08-21 at 21.52.16] [Screenshot 2023-08-21 at 21.50.00]

[image] Lillian : have you had a look at the WordPress logs? @MiggityMac This is where I’d start. Lily’s CSP suggestion is also a good one. Also, if possible, could you share the wp meta fields saved in the WP database for that example post?

Thank you much, @Lilly - I wasn’t able to dive deep into yesterday, but today/tomorrow I will be. This is very helpful. I’m going to get into the logs soon and see what’s happening there.

[image] Lillian : I’d review the content security policy settings because that can cause embedding issues. Did the Wordpress plugin start embedding at some point? Last I checked it was syncing copies of comments and displaying them locally.

Here are the most recent WP Discourse logs: pistols-firing-wp-discourse-logs-2022-06-01-2023-08-23.zip (159.7 KB)

Apologies @Stephen you are correct and I am just getting some terminology mixed up. I do know how the plugin works.

[image] Michael: From what I see, post id’s are not always syncing across to our Discourse site (forum.pistolsfiringblog.com) from the Wordpress site I’m curious about what’s going on with this, so figured I should have a look. There are lots of 429 (too many requests) errors in your logs. Those errors are being called when WordPress attempts to pull a post’s comments from Discourse. I’m not finding errors related to the post you’ve linked to, but possibly the error logs are getting flooded and some errors are skipped. Here’s a Discourse topic and WordPress post that I’m finding errors for: Three Questions for Oklahoma State's Offense Entering Fall Camp - PFB Articles - The Chamber Three Questions for Oklahoma State’s Offense Entering Fall Camp The easiest way to start debugging the issue would be for you to go to that post’s edit page on WordPress and enable the “custom fields” panel: [image] [image] That should display some fields that look like this: [image] I suspect there will also be a ‘wpdc_sync_post_comments’ field with its value set to 1. If for some reason it’s stuck at 1, that would explain all the ‘too many requests’ errors. Also, on the WordPress plugin’s Commenting settings tab, what’s the value of the “Enable Discourse Comments” setting? [image] Has getting Discourse comments to display on your WordPress site ever worked for you? If so, can you think of anything that might have been changed on the WordPress site when comments stopped displaying?

Thanks for this great info. Discourse Comments used to work fine until we had a problem with Raptive (ad thrive updates). The Discourse commenting settings are the same that you’ve screenshoted. I enabled the custom fields are on a post. I don’t see any of the fields on a different post, but I do see the on the post in refernce. The wpdc_sync_post_comments was set to zero. [image] [image] I’ll get the meta on a ‘broken’ post this morning.

@simon - here’s the post meta of a broken post (found here: Arizona State Reportedly Names True Freshman Jaden Rashada as Starting Quarterback) [image] AND the Post Data (split shots): [image] [image] And some errors in the DC logs (but that is from me updating it previously): [2023-08-24 19:50:18] publish.ERROR: create_post.post_error {"wp_title":"Arizona State Reportedly Names True Freshman Jaden Rashada as Starting Quarterback","wp_author_id":"20980","wp_post_id":260073,"response_message":"Embed url has already been taken","http_code":422}``` Does this help?

I’m going to look at all of this more closely later on. Hopefully today. [image] Michael: here’s the post meta of a broken post [2023-08-24 19:50:18] publish.ERROR: create_post.post_error {"wp_title":"Arizona State Reportedly Names True Freshman Jaden Rashada as Starting Quarterback","wp_author_id":"20980","wp_post_id":260073,"response_message":"Embed url has already been taken","http_code":422}``` The Embed url has already been taken error should be handled by the WP Discourse plugin. The error is caused when there’s an existing topic on your Discourse site that is already associated with the URL of the WordPress post. The easiest way to trigger the error is to publish a post to Discourse, then click the “Unlink From Discourse” button on WordPress, then try republishing the post to Discourse. The result should look like this: [image] What the UI is trying to indicate is that instead of publishing the post to Discourse, you need to enter the URL of its associated Discourse topic into the “Topic URL” input. The error message that’s displayed could be improved though. I’m not sure this accounts for all the issues with Discourse comments on your WordPress site. For example, here’s the topic and post that you supplied the custom field details for: Three Questions for Oklahoma State's Offense Entering Fall Camp - PFB Articles - The Chamber Three Questions for Oklahoma State’s Offense Entering Fall Camp Those custom fields have the data I’d expect to see if comments were successfully displayed, but I’m not even seeing the Discourse comment template displayed on the WordPress page. I’m guessing something in your theme is preventing it from loading. Can you confirm that the “Display comments for all topics” option is selected here, and not the “Display a link to the comments” option? I’m just asking in case that’s related to the missing comments template. [image] Also, it looks like you have the “Load Comments with Ajax” option enabled. I’m seeing a call to that script in the post’s source code. Try disabling that option until this gets sorted out, then re-enable it to see if that causes issues.

[image] Michael: Discourse Comments used to work fine until we had a problem with Raptive (ad thrive updates). Hey Michael, could you explain what the problem you had with Raptive was? And do you still have it enabled on your site?

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