How to link the existing discourse comments to wordpress posts?

[Davidliu (david)]

I have setup wp-discourse, and checked syncing is fine between wordpress post and discourse for new posts.(they are hosted in different domains)
Currently I have bunch of existing comments in discourse, which comes from disqus.
I want to connect them to the relative topics in wordpress.
But It’s not working at all.
What’s the best way to link each other? I have been seeking for this answer for 3 days.

[Josiah_Toppin]

I’m unclear as to what you’re asking here. How did you import the disqus comments into Discourse in the first place?

[simon]

As things are now, it is not possible to use the plugin to link existing Discourse comments to a new WordPress post. The plugin works by creating a new Discourse topic when you select ‘Publish to Discourse’ on the WordPress admin page. The linking is done by setting the WordPress post meta-data 'discourse_permalink' to the value of the Discourse topic’s topic_slug.

It looks like it would be possible to add a feature to the plugin to ‘link to existing Discourse topic’. It would have to be supplied with either the topic_slug or or the topic URL from Discourse. That’s not going to happen right away though.

[Davidliu (david)]

Btw,I imported discourse comments by disqus_importer script which is provided by discourse org.
But now I can’t link them to the related wordpress topics. Seems like linking by each topic’s slug is the only way, But there is no such feature right now. What should I do now?
thanks for your support.Waiting for your reply.

[Davidliu (david)]

The one which are creating by wp-discourse are working perfectly. Syncing is fine right now.
But can’t find the solution to linking existing discourse topics.
Please help me.

[simon]

For now you could try embedding the existing comments with javascript. See this topic for details:

Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript

Discourse has the ability to embed the comments from a topic in a remote site using a Javascript API that creates an IFRAME. For an example of this in action, check out Coding Horror’s blog. The blog is run via Ghost but the comments are embedded from his Discourse forum. One important thing to note with this setup is that users have to navigate to your forum to post replies. This is intentional, as we feel that the posting interface on a Discourse forum is currently much richer than what we …

Look at the section labeled ‘(Alternate Configuration) Linking to existing topics’.

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

@simon

It looks like it would be possible to add a feature to the plugin to ‘link to existing Discourse topic’. It would have to be supplied with either the topic_slug or or the topic URL from Discourse. That’s not going to happen right away though.

I definitely support this for v1.1. Let’s come back to it after v1.0 is published. Further discussion on this feature can go here:

Link existing forum topic to new WordPress post

After migrating from bbPress to Discourse I realised there’s one thing I miss about our old “forum for comments” integration (besides that, everything works way better). Quite frequently, big news would be shared on the forum before it turned up on the blog. The topics that really stood out could be “featured” via a blog post. Before posting, we’d have the option of bbPress creating a new topic, or simply point to an existing topic, which in this case is what we’d do. Quite handy!

[Quintin_Par]

Hello wonderful people,

@erlend_sh

I definitely support this for v1.1. Let’s come back to it after v1.0 is published. Further discussion on this feature can go here:

Did anyone pick this up, yet? Looking to link existing blog post and existing discourse topics.

[simon]

Yes, it exists in my development branch of the wp-discourse-shortcodes plugin. I think it works better as a shortcode than by adding it as an option to the Publish to Discourse metabox. I’m not sure what is the best way to include this in the wp-discourse plugin. The shortcode could either be added to wp-discourse, or kept in the shortcodes plugin. In either case, I’ll get it ready to go soon.

[Quintin_Par]

Thank you. I can be your tester.

If I use the short code plugin and let’s say we connect it with an id similar to this
http://forum.twiganything.com/t/add-existing-discourse-topic-to-a-wordpress-post-with-twiganything/27/4
how do I customize (look) what’s shown below the blog post? Will the theme settings carry on from the discourse forum?

[icaria36]

@simon

The shortcode could either be added to wp-discourse, or kept in the shortcodes plugin.

For what is worth, the use case of connecting manually WP posts to Discourse topics looks (to me at least) closely related to the core functionality that the wp-discourse plugin provides. I installed this plugin yesterday and immediately missed such feature.

The functionality provided by wp-discourse-shortcodes is more of a nice to have, and the plugin itself is presented as more experimental. I for one would go for wp-discourse plugin.