I won’t pretend to completely understand this, but this is what I was told in return when relaying your suggestion:
How would we get the topic_id based on a Ghost post id, slug, or url?
My understanding is that we could use the post id to link the topic via the
external_idproperty, but it seems that the external_id usage is limited to the api, and topics are created using the embed feature, (which doesn’t seem to support external_id).
As a side note, contrary to what I stated in my previous comment I amended the slug back to its default in the aforementioned Ghost post a couple of hours ago, meaning the comment count isn’t stuck on the spinner as stated.