I noticed that the “Start the Discussion” link at the bottom of my Wordpress Blog Post stopped working and is now just linking to “topic_url”. I am not exactly sure when this stopped working. I did recently update my Wordpress Theme. I did post a blog post after that update which seem to work just…

Hey @Pieces , that will be something to do with your site, not this plugin. It sounds like something is preventing post custom fields from being loaded in your Wordpress in certain circumstances. You’ll need to debug that on the Wordpress side of things. If you have a hosting provider or developer, …

Hey there @Pieces , [image] Pieces: I did recently update my Wordpress Theme. I did post a blog post after that update which seem to work just fine and got posted to my Discourse Forum. So this specific publication to Discourse worked entirely as expected? And then a subsequent publication pr…

[image] angus: So this specific publication to Discourse worked entirely as expected? And then a subsequent publication produced this unexpected result? I am not sure what you mean with subsequent publication. I published a new blog post yesterday. Publishing this post seems to have worked n…

I see, thanks for clarifying. When you go into the “edit” view of the post do you see the topic is linked properly in the “Discourse” sidebar? [Screenshot at Apr 02 20-17-42]

Hey @angus yes it does show that it is linked and the link seems to work fine. [Screenshot 2025-04-02 at 2.40.12 PM]

I see. This suggests to me that there is some other issue with your wordpress instance as the data that sets that URL in the post edit view is the same data that fills the topic_url in the comment template. In other words, the data is there, but it’s not being loaded in the comment template for some…

Thanks for responding @angus I need to have a look tonight, I don’t have access to the PHP logs right at this moment I am seeing this issue across all posts I only see a cookie (blocked) related issue in the browser console (I don’t think this is related but happy to take your guidance if it is) I…

Hi @angus I realized I installed a Child Theme 6 months ago so I can publish a Wordpress post as a onebox on Discourse. I reactivated the main Theme, issue is still there (if I turn Ajax back on), so I switched back to my Child Theme and turned off Ajax. Below you see the code of the functions.php…

[image] Pieces: I turned off Ajax and this seems to fix the link, however the link has a lot of additional characters behind the link that is defined in my blogpost on Wordpress (e.g. www.mydomain/post/1 became www.mydomain/post/1?_ahsdkhsdkhkh*lnnjasdfa) Ok, the issue might be connected to …

Hi Angus, I think it was enabled when I installed the plugin, if not I didn’t enable it for a specific reason. I just find it weird that it stopped working without a clear reason (other than a Wordpress or Theme update). I will keep it turned off for now.

[image] Pieces: I think it was enabled when I installed the plugin, if not I didn’t enable it for a specific reason. I just find it weird that it stopped working without a clear reason (other than a Wordpress or Theme update). The setting is disabled by default. If there are any javascript is…

Start the Discussion link at bottom of blog post not working, linking to topic_url

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angus (Angus McLeod) April 2, 2025, 2:07pm 3

Hey there @Pieces,

So this specific publication to Discourse worked entirely as expected? And then a subsequent publication produced this unexpected result?

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