Max character length of Discourse Replies below WP Posts

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The discussion revolves around the maximum character length of Discourse replies displayed below WordPress posts. erikmolenaarnl suggests limiting the length of replies and adding a link to continue reading on Discourse, as very long replies can appear spammy. They provide a real-life example and propose settings for the WordPress plugin. erikmolenaarnl corrects a code snippet and asks for PHP expertise. Later, erikmolenaarnl shares a plugin created by joebuhlig that addresses this issue.

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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: Radware Captcha Page. 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