# Wordpress posts are now unlisted from latest update of forum and plugin

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**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** wordpress\
**Created:** [January 9, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-posts-are-now-unlisted-from-latest-update-of-forum-and-plugin/291055 "2024-01-09T18:55:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 11, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-posts-are-now-unlisted-from-latest-update-of-forum-and-plugin/291055/11 "2024-03-11T17:16:31Z")

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> [@simon](#):
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> It’s working as intended, but I think some way should be found to make it clear that topics can be unlisted either from the WordPress or the Discourse end.

But that isn’t true, right? As you wrote:

> [@Comments not appearing and posts unlisted](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comments-not-appearing-and-posts-unlisted/294970/5):
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> The [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin’s “Publish as Unlisted Topics” option no longer has any effect.

Surely _that_ option is no longer working as intended.

Here’s my understanding:

- The WordPress plugin no longer has _any_ control over whether the post is unlisted, ever since this PR merged. [Apply embed unlisted setting consistently by angusmcleod · Pull Request #24294 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/24294) @angus
- The Discourse site has a setting that controls whether all WordPress topics are unlisted, `embed unlisted`, and it’s true by default.
- This means that everyone using the WordPress plugin is creating unlisted topics by default, until they discover what went wrong, find this support thread, and manually uncheck `embed unlisted`.

This seems really bad to me. At a minimum, I would expect:

- `embed unlisted` should be false by default. (I can’t understand why _anyone_ would want that behavior at all, and especially not by default!)
- Since the plugin’s “Publish as Unlisted Topics” option no longer has any effect, it should be removed.

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