I have a site where I publish various tutorials and blogs, and I use Discourse as both a forum and as comments using the embedding feature. This mostly works great, except that when I create a new page on the main site, all of the content is included in the Discourse post. Some of my users don’t ev…

For what it’s worth, here’s what I ended up doing: On my blog, I have a <div> with an id of forum-excerpt, which is hidden with display:none but contains the HTML that I’d like to show in the Discourse post. (I do this using some Jekyll / Liquid logic, but that shouldn’t really matter.) On my…

Sorry for the bump, but I’d be really grateful if anybody had any ideas for me to try!

Thanks for the reply! I’m using the JavaScript embed. For example, I have this page: [image] React CSS Tutorial Use CSS to style your React apps. Which contains this embed code: <script type="text/javascript"> DiscourseEmbed = { discourseUrl: location.proto…

Thanks for the clarification. Why have you got the embed truncate site setting enabled in Discourse? I’m just a bit confused as you mention you’ve disabled it, but you also say your problem is [image] KevinWorkman: This mostly works great, except that when I create a new page on the main site,…

[image] Angus McLeod: Why have you got the embed truncate site setting enabled in Discourse? I’ve gone back and forth with the embed truncate setting. Looking at it again now, I guess enabling it is marginally better, but I’m still hoping for a way to avoid showing the full text of the origin…

Thanks for explaining Kevin. There are no settings specifically directed at this issue, but there’s two ways you could approach this. Customize what HTML is pulled from your site The way embeds work is that they scrape the content from a site using the Readability gem. The gem and it’s output use t…

I struggle to understand why there is not an option to customize the full embedded text. I do not want to scrape any actual content from the embedded URL, instead just have a link to it with a short description (e.g. just the meta summary). Right now I do this with an automated API call, but want t…

[image] sutterseba: I struggle to understand why there is not an option to customize the full embedded text. I do not want to scrape any actual content from the embedded URL, instead just have a link to it with a short description (e.g. just the meta summary). It sounds like you don’t want an…

[image] Angus McLeod: It sounds like you don’t want an embed True, I just want an automatic thread creation whenever a new blog article is published. However, I also want to use the native JS embed feature to show comments below the blog post on the external website, which comes with the emb…

Thanks for explaining. Ok, if I’m understanding you correctly: you want the topic creation and comment linking functionality of JS embeds ; and you want just a link with a short description in the first post of the linked topic in discourse. Is that right? For 2 have you tried the embed truncate …

How to customize the text in an embedded post?

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angus (Angus McLeod) July 14, 2022, 12:32pm 3

Hey Kevin, can I just confirm whether you’re using the WP Discourse plugin or a javascript embed?

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How to customize the text in an embedded post?

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