# Link existing forum topic to new WordPress post

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-existing-forum-topic-to-new-wordpress-post/24268>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** wordpress\
**Created:** [2015 年 1 月 21 日午後 12:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-existing-forum-topic-to-new-wordpress-post/24268 "2015-01-21T12:37:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Post date:** [2015 年 1 月 21 日午後 12:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-existing-forum-topic-to-new-wordpress-post/24268/1 "2015-01-21T12:37:25Z")

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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!

> [@erlend\_sh](#):
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> Two bonus features I neglected to mention:
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> 1. You can easily re-link old posts by pointing them to a directly related conversation on your forum (in our case they are 100% related since we were using bbPress for comments for a while).
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> 2. The whole plugin would become less “magical” this way, since a basic URL is quite straight forward. E.g. if something wrong happened when WP automatically created a topic for you, you could always create a new one manually and point to that one instead.

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