Displaying "just" the topic from discourse on wordpress blog

[Ridhima_Sharma]

Hello Team, good day.

I am trying to display just the topic (first post on the thread) on my Wordpress blog. I have researched thoroughly and am unable to achieve this through WP Discourse plugin.

Has someone been able to execute this??

Thanks in advance!

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

Hey @Ridhima_Sharma, did you check out the notes I added to tips and tricks in response to your similar request back in February? Or are you trying to achieve something else now?

WP Discourse plugin tips and tricks

This topic has a number of tips and tricks for users of the WP Discourse WordPress plugin. Adjust the comments_number sync period for WordPress archive pages To get the correct number of Discourse comments for a post, the plugin needs to periodically make an HTTP request to Discourse to get the current comments number. On single pages this period is set to be no more often than every 10 minutes. For archive pages the period is set to no more than once every 24 hours. The reason for this is to a…

[Ridhima_Sharma]

Hey @angus,

Thank you for the response!

What I am looking for is just displaying the topic, without the comments on a WordPress blog.
The only options that I have seen so far are about managing comments.

So for instance, if I put the link for a particular thread in the WP Discourse plugin on WordPress site, I need this to be fetched and not the comments.

If there is any way to do this, I would love to know!

Looking forward to your response!

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

To give specific advice on that, here’s that same screenshot with indications of what I mean by “Topic metadata” and “First post”.

Also, when I say “embedding” I mean displaying these two items directly in a Wordpress page.

Topic metadata

Regarding embedding “topic metadata”, that is the subject of my previous response to your February post. I wrote up how to do that here:

WP Discourse plugin tips and tricks

This topic has a number of tips and tricks for users of the WP Discourse WordPress plugin. Adjust the comments_number sync period for WordPress archive pages To get the correct number of Discourse comments for a post, the plugin needs to periodically make an HTTP request to Discourse to get the current comments number. On single pages this period is set to be no more often than every 10 minutes. For archive pages the period is set to no more than once every 24 hours. The reason for this is to a…

First post

Regarding embedding the “first post”, I’ve explained how to do that here:

Embed a single post / reply in the body of a WordPress post?

Hey @martym, The easiest way of selecting specific posts for Wordpress comments out of the box is using this commenting option: Only Import Moderator-Liked However, I suspect you’re after something more targeted, given you’ve mentioned a “single” post and also that you want to embed it in the body of the post itself. It’s not possible to retrieve a single post, based off of the post number (e.g. this post has a post number of 2) using the WP Discourse Comments functionality, or embed it with…

You could combine both of the above to embed that entire screenshot in a wordpress page or post. Both require Wordpress coding however, so you’ll need a Wordpress developer.

[Ridhima_Sharma]

Hey @angus

Thanks a lot for re-iterating. I was confused.

I will try to implement this with the help of a developer. Thanks again! Have a good day!