# 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:** [21 Janeiro , 2015 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:** ![joebuhlig](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joebuhlig/32/193054_2.png) [@joebuhlig](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joebuhlig)\
**Post date:** [19 Abril , 2017 18:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-existing-forum-topic-to-new-wordpress-post/24268/15 "2017-04-19T18:22:52Z")

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I have a situation right now where I want to embed a topic in a couple different sites. Which means that I now have a WordPress site where I want to use an existing topic as the embedded comments. Which brings me to this:

[https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse/pull/274](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse/pull/274)

This PR adds a field to the meta box (Existing Topic ID). When a value is added to this field it uses that topic for the comments as opposed to the topic that was published. It doesn’t matter if Published is checked or not. This will override it. Clear out the field and it resumes it’s previous setup.

I’d love to see this make it into the core plugin! Let me know if I can do anything to help make it so.

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