An idea for more economical comments?

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

Thanks for your detailed response Petr, however I’m a little confused.

@Petr_Mišák

I’m not interested in posting WordPress comments in Discourse, but only in Discource to discuss the article topics in WordPress.
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It just bothers me terribly that the linking between the WordPress article and the comments in Discourse is created at the time the article is published, and not when someone expresses interest in discussing the topic

How would someone express interest in discussing an article if you don’t want Wordpress comments and there isn’t already a topic for it in Discourse?

*edit Ah I see you’ve laid out a UX

@Petr_Mišák

• In WordPress we have a draft article for example www.SvetAndroida.cz/android-telefony-2023
• we will publish the article
• still nothing is transferred to Dicourse

Then someone clicks on the “Start a discussion” button under the WordPress article

• at that point WordPress calls Discource to create a topic with the address komunita.SvetAndroida.cz/android-telefony-2023
• and after it is created, it redirects the user to Discourse to post the first comment

If someone on the same WordPress article wants to “add a comment” (another comment)

• they will no longer call Discourse and create a topic
• but the user will be taken directly to the Discourse when the button is clicked
• alternatively the “add comment” button no longer needs to be handled by JavaScript, but since the topic already exists, the button could just be an html link, which would be better from an SEO perspective

Yes, that’s quite doable.

@simon

They’ll need to figure out how to call the public sync_to_discourse method when the “start discussion” link is clicked: https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse/blob/main/lib/sso-client/sso-client-base.php#L77 . By publishing via that method, all the appropriate meta data will get added to the WordPress post.

Thinking about this now, I think perhaps it’s a little lacuna in the plugin that we don’t have an easier way to do this. I think it makes sense to add a utility function and a shortcode and block that connects to it. I’ll investigate this for the release after the current one.