Hi all, I’m going to use a hybrid of WP-Discourse + Embedded Comments via JS on our blog. I’d like to show the number of replies / comments each post has, at least within the single post (single.php), but don’t want to slam the Discourse API 10,000+ times per day or slow the blog down while it ret…

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If you publish the posts through WP Discourse and setup the ‘Sync Comment Data’ webhook, it will store the Discourse comments count as post meta data with the key discourse_comments_count. If you’re not using the WP Discourse comments template for displaying the comments, you’ll need to write a fun…

WordPress / Discourse API Strategy: Get Reply Count via API Efficiently

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WordPress / Discourse API Strategy: Get Reply Count via API Efficiently

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