# Comments not appearing and posts unlisted
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/comments-not-appearing-and-posts-unlisted/294970
**Category:** WordPress
**Created:** [February 10, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comments-not-appearing-and-posts-unlisted/294970 "2024-02-10T22:38:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@hunterboerner](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hunterboerner)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comments-not-appearing-and-posts-unlisted/294970/1 "2024-02-10T22:38:26Z")
Hi,
The discourse comments are not showing up (even just the link to the forum) and the posts created on the forum are unlisted. I have tried going to the theme template and replacing the WP comments block with a Discourse Comments block but it doesn’t render anything.
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### Author:  [@hunterboerner](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hunterboerner)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2024, 11:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comments-not-appearing-and-posts-unlisted/294970/2 "2024-02-10T23:11:22Z")
Well, after tweaking some settings it’s appeared to start working. Not sure what i changed but I am specifying the Discourse Comments in my theme template instead of the default comments.
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### Author:  [@robotnjik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robotnjik)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2024, 8:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comments-not-appearing-and-posts-unlisted/294970/3 "2024-02-11T08:16:56Z")
For us worked when we unchecked
**embed unlisted** : Embedded topics will be unlisted until a user replies.
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### Author:  [@hunterboerner](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hunterboerner)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2024, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comments-not-appearing-and-posts-unlisted/294970/4 "2024-02-11T18:36:04Z")
I have that parameter unchecked:
And yet it still doesn’t work as new posts are unlisted.
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comments-not-appearing-and-posts-unlisted/294970/5 "2024-02-11T20:52:55Z")
> [@hunterboerner](#):
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> I have that parameter unchecked:
The way this works was recently changed. You need to disable the `embed unlisted` setting on Discourse:
The [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin’s “Publish as Unlisted Topics” option no longer has any effect. @angus, if it hasn’t been done already, that option should be removed from the plugin.
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### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2024, 6:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comments-not-appearing-and-posts-unlisted/294970/6 "2024-02-12T06:44:46Z")
Yes, please check the site setting `embed unlisted` as Simon mentions.
> [@simon](#):
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> The [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin’s “Publish as Unlisted Topics” option no longer has any effect. @angus, if it hasn’t been done already, that option should be removed from the plugin.
The plugin’s option has the same effect as before, i.e. to unlist embedded topics from the [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin. The change is that the site setting in Discourse is now applied consistently across different embedding scenarios, including [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse). There may be a use case for un-listing embedded [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) topics using the option in the plugin and listing embedded topics from other sources, so I don’t think it makes sense to remove the option at this stage.
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### Author:  [@hunterboerner](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hunterboerner)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comments-not-appearing-and-posts-unlisted/294970/8 "2024-02-17T22:43:20Z")
I’ve also noticed that sometimes when I create a post on Wordpress it will create the Dicourse topic (listed after changing that Discourse setting) but it won’t link the topic on Wordpress. So I have to go to Wordpress and manually link the blog post to the Discourse post.
Any idea why that may be happening?
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### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2024, 6:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comments-not-appearing-and-posts-unlisted/294970/9 "2024-02-19T06:57:50Z")
Hey @hunterboerner, yes that’s a different issue.
If you can reproduce it reliably, or have a demonstration or some logs, please post a new topic in #Support > WordPress and I’ll help you out 👍
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2024, 6:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comments-not-appearing-and-posts-unlisted/294970/10 "2024-03-20T06:57:55Z")
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