# Empty \`discourse\_permalink\` Causes Silent Comment Sync Failures

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-discourse-permalink-causes-silent-comment-sync-failures/395962>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [February 12, 2026, 9:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-discourse-permalink-causes-silent-comment-sync-failures/395962 "2026-02-12T21:39:14Z")\
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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:** [February 13, 2026, 3:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-discourse-permalink-causes-silent-comment-sync-failures/395962/4 "2026-02-13T15:06:56Z")

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Understood.

> [@jeremyhixon](#):
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> The issue appears to have started around mid-December 2025.

This is likely key. What happened in mid December 2025?

Remember that Wordpress is inherently a multi-party / composed system. It’s relatively easy for one part of your system to affect another part. I’m not saying that the [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin may not have an issue, but all other things being equal we need to understand what changed and how that change produced your issue before we can think about solutions.

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