# Post Not Properly Published to Discourse – Missing Permalink in API Response

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-properly-published-to-discourse-missing-permalink-in-api-response/362788>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [April 21, 2025, 9:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-properly-published-to-discourse-missing-permalink-in-api-response/362788 "2025-04-21T09:35:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![techops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@techops](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techops)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-properly-published-to-discourse-missing-permalink-in-api-response/362788/14 "2025-04-23T13:42:44Z")

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Thanks, Angus.

I’ve identified the culprit, the SmartCrawl SEO plugin is conflicting with [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse). After deactivating SmartCrawl, the posts are publishing to Discourse as expected and linking correctly to the WordPress posts.

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