I am a new user and have hit. a problem the connection tab says I am connected to discourse, but I cannot select a default discourse category because it doesn’t see a connection. what did I do wring here? [Screenshot 2024-09-20 at 14.31.25] thanks Steve

Longshot: did you change the lazy load categories groups setting?

Hey Steve, sorry to be a pain but could you also share a screenshot of the notice saying you’re connected to Discourse? Thanks.

hi Angus absolutely [Screenshot 2024-09-24 at 10.22.34] and here is an image of the discourse API page after selecting “all users” there was no option to set a user to one of the admin accounts [Screenshot 2024-09-24 at 10.24.14] the discourse icon appears on the posting page but as you can s…

Thanks for the extra info Steven. Could you also share your WP Discourse logs with me (see “Logs” in the WP Discourse admin panel). There will likely be an error message.

Hi Angus thanks for the quick response here are the logs for 20 23 and 24 [Screenshot 2024-09-24 at 14.04.42] [Screenshot 2024-09-24 at 14.04.53] [Screenshot 2024-09-24 at 14.05.01]

Thanks Steven, I need the full line of the ones that have “error” in them. Please copy the line and paste it in a post here.

Hi Angus here you are the three error messages from the first day *2024-09-20 19:53:22] publish.ERROR: create_post.post_error {"wp_title":"VAT Concerns","wp_author_id":"255739202","wp_post_id":249,"response_message":"You supplied invalid parameters to the request: category","http_code":400} [2024-…

Thanks for your patience with this Steve. It looks like your Discourse is not returning categories as the plugin expects. https://schoolreviews.discourse.group/site.json does not contain any categories. This is what the WP Discourse plugin uses to populate the category list. However I do see t…

Assuming the site’s on the Discourse Starter plan, this might not be a bug. It doesn’t look like that plan allows for API or Webhook access: Discourse pricing | Discourse - Civilized Discussion . Edit: the WP Discourse “You are connected to Discourse” message wouldn’t get displayed if the API was di…

[image] simon: Assuming the site’s on the Discourse Starter plan, this might not be a bug. It doesn’t look like that plan allows for API or Webhook access: Discourse pricing | Discourse - Civilized Discussion . Even if that were the case, there is currently an issue loading categories on Steve…

Category endpoints not working

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Lilly (Lillian ) September 27, 2024, 7:03pm 10

I believe the OP is on basic plan which is not the same as the starter plan. We didn’t take API or webhook access away from existing Basic customers.

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