Max character length of Discourse Replies below WP Posts

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Hi Discourse team,

Sometimes replies below WP Posts are very long. This is great content when reading directly in Discourse, but sometimes too much to handle to show below a WP Post. It can almost look kinda spammy.

A real live example is at: https://networklessons.com/cisco/ccie-routing-switching-written/multiple-spanning-tree-mst/. I always show 5 replies and the 4th reply is almost 16,000 pixels in height. Great when reading it in Discourse, but not so much below a post.

I would like to suggest to limit the length of the reply and show a link to continue reading the reply on Discourse.

Suggested settings in Wordpress plugin:

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Thanks for listening and looking forward to your reply.

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Please note the {discourse_url} in above code should be {comment_url}, but these are not parsed as these should be in HTML and not PHP.

Anyone more skilled in PHP out there who could take a look at my code? Thx :slight_smile:

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For everyone interested, the amazing @joebuhlig created a plugin for us at NetworkLessons.com which does just that. I like to share it with the community:

https://github.com/procourse/wp-discourse-sanitize-comments

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