# 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: [November 11, 2023, 11:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/an-idea-for-more-economical-comments/285124/2 "2023-11-11T11:47:54Z")

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Hey @Petr_Mišák,

To do that you’d need to have comments created on Wordpress be imported as posts into Discourse. That’s not possible using the [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin and unlikely to be supported in the near future. For some broader thoughts on this see

> [@Should Discourse make an effort to become a viable comment platform?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-discourse-make-an-effort-to-become-a-viable-comment-platform/274455/):
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> I’ve created a few posts recently about using Discourse as a comment platform and improving its existing functionality for embedding comments: [Using Discourse to power comments in an event system or blog? - #29 by simon](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-to-power-comments-in-an-event-system-or-blog/90308/29)[Control which comments are embedded? - #17 by simon](https://meta.discourse.org/t/control-which-comments-are-embedded/41363/17)[Topic embedding needs some love](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-embedding-needs-some-love/262763) Bases on the lack of response to those posts, my suspicion is that there isn’t much interest from the Discourse team or community in pursuing the use of Discourse as a comment platform. That’s …

That said, it occurs to me that once we add the ability for Discourse category actors to follow other ActivityPub actors to the ActivityPub plugin (which I’m currently working on) you could perhaps configure the Wordpress ActivityPub plugin in some way to achieve this. Although this is quite speculative.

> [@Petr\_Mišák](#):
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> Which is very resource-intensive, as WordPress creates many “empty” topics.

I’d also want to understand a bit more why you see this as “resource intensive”. If you’re publishing a lot of articles that aren’t getting engagement, perhaps consider publishing a subset of your articles to your forum that are more likely to get engagement? Conversely is having a lot of embedded topics with no replies hurting your community in some way you’ve observed? Is there perhaps something you can do to address the underlying issue here so to speak?

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