# An idea for more economical comments?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/an-idea-for-more-economical-comments/285124>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [November 10, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/an-idea-for-more-economical-comments/285124 "2023-11-10T22:15:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/an-idea-for-more-economical-comments/285124/17 "2023-12-04T13:27:57Z")

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> [@angus](#):
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> > [@simon](#):
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> > 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](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.
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> 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.

I’m going to start working on this next week to be added in `2.5.1` (the release after next). @Petr_Mišák You’ll be able to use this to achieve your goal.

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