Comments are not showing up on WP Pages or Posts, but pages are appearing as threads in Discourse

[NathanJPearce]

I have Discourse enabled for both posts and pages,

Comments I make on the WordPress pages like C2 – Faith Faraday – FF7.com don’t show up on that page itself or in discourse, but there is a thread called C2 in Discourse, with no replies. The corresponding thread to that page is at C2 - FF7.com - Faith Faraday Forum

The reason I’m trying to get this to work on pages is because I put rather short URLs at the end of each chapter of my book, and I really don’t want to redirect people.

I’m using my own install of Discourse, by the way.

Thank you for your help!

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

Hey Nathan, welcome, could you share the meta file from the Logs page?

[NathanJPearce]

Sure thing! Thanks for replying. Love your videos!

Strange, when I download the meta, the zip file is empty. Here’s the text from the ‘view meta’ field:

### This file is included in log downloads ###

### Server ###

WordPress - 6.8.3
PHP - 7.4.33
MySQL - 5.5.68

### Active Plugins ###

Breakdance - 2.5.2
WP-Discourse - 2.6.0

### WP Discourse Settings (Secrets Excluded) ###

connection-logs - 1
display-subcategories - 1
allow-tags - 1
max-tags - 5
publish-as-unlisted - 0
full-post-content - 0
custom-excerpt-length - 55
add-featured-link - 0
auto-publish - 1
force-publish - 1
force-publish-max-age - 0
publish-failure-notice - 1
auto-track - 1
allowed_post_types - post,page
exclude_tags - 
hide-discourse-name-field - 0
discourse-username-editable - 0
direct-db-publication-flags - 0
verbose-publication-logs - 1
enable-discourse-comments - 1
comment-type - display-comments
ajax-load - 1
load-comment-css - 0
discourse-new-tab - 0
hide-wordpress-comments - 1
show-existing-comments - 0
max-comments - 5
min-replies - 0
min-score - 0
min-trust-level - 0
bypass-trust-level-score - 50
only-show-moderator-liked - 0
custom-datetime-format - 
cache-html - 0
clear-cached-comment-html - 0
verbose-comment-logs - 0
use-discourse-webhook - 0
use-discourse-user-webhook - 0
webhook-match-user-email - 0
verbose-webhook-logs - 0
verbose-sso-logs - 1
enable-sso - 0
auto-create-sso-user - 0
real-name-as-discourse-name - 0
force-avatar-update - 0
redirect-without-login - 0
sso-client-enabled - 0
sso-client-login-form-change - 0
sso-client-sync-by-email - 0
sso-client-disable-create-user - 0
sso-client-sync-logout - 0
logs-enabled - 1

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

Ah, I think the issue in this case is that the page you’re trying to render comments on page that doesn’t have a comments_template. Check out “Display comments without loading the WordPress comments template” in

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[NathanJPearce]

Thank you so much! Please forgive the newbie question, it’s been nearly 30 years since I was a web developer, but where in my template do I paste that code? I’m using the Breakdance template.