Has anyone worked on creating native wordpress comments from Discourse posts instead of just displaying Discourse posts separately? The reason I ask is because my theme (and I’m sure others) displays the comment count below the post image and title and it would be good to populate this with accurat…

[afbeelding] jamesmarkcook: The reason I ask is because my theme (and I’m sure others) displays the comment count below the post image and title and it would be good to populate this with accurate data. This is coming soon.

@simon you seem to be the man in the know with anything WP Discourse right now :slight_smile: Do you know roughly how soon this will arrive? Is there a PR created or is it in development or on the roadmap? Thanks

Yes I have a PR for this: https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse/pull/213 We just need to be sure that all the recent changes haven’t broken anything before anything new gets added. Hopefully it can be merged in the next week or so.

[afbeelding] simon: We just need to be sure that all the recent changes haven’t broken anything before anything new gets added. Hopefully it can be merged in the next week or so. AWESOME :clap: thank you.

@simon I just took a look at the PR. Correct me if I’m wrong but it looks like you’re just displaying a comment count on the Discourse comment template, not actually creating comments in the Wordpress system that can be utilised by the rest of the system. The reason I was asking about native Wordp…

[afbeelding] jamesmarkcook: other parts of Wordpress display the count In theory, your theme should have access to the comments number now. The plugin filters the value returned by the wordpress comments_number function. This is how it looks with the twentysixteen theme: [afbeelding] But t…

Thanks for the reply. I’m currently running into some issues with SSO but once I’ve fixed that I will test it out :thumbsup:

I can verify that comment counts are working for me with my brand new test set-up.

@simon I only truly understand what you said here now after spending some time looking at the code and modifying my theme and reading up on filters! :slight_smile: Currently my theme is using comments_number where you leave a comment but get_comments_number for the number next to the comments icon.…

@simon I suspect you understand how this plugin is working a bit better than me and just wanted to get your opinion on how I would also overwrite the value for get_comments_number() and not just comments_number(). My theme uses the former to display the number of comments in the header, along with …

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jamesmarkcook (James Cook) 19 augustus 2016 om 16:01 13

Thanks for your help. I will give this a go and let you know.

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