# WP-discourse: comments are not pulled over

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-comments-are-not-pulled-over/57232
**Category:** WordPress
**Created:** [February 10, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-comments-are-not-pulled-over/57232 "2017-02-10T23:07:24Z")
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### Author: ![bts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bts/32/184556_2.png) [@bts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bts)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-comments-are-not-pulled-over/57232/23 "2017-03-07T18:31:16Z")

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Hey Simon, I wanted to chime in with a similar request…

We’re building a membership site for guitarists. We’ll have at launch roughly 1,000 pages which each contain either a lesson video or musical example, and adding many more over time.

We’d like to have discussion of this material via Discourse — the normal comment integration seems great for this, e.g. asking questions about a specific topic or example covered. If someone has a question they can click through below to ask it on the forum. **However** we’d much prefer not to start with ~1,000 empty topics visible on our forum. For this use case it would make a lot of sense to have a way to either create the topic only when someone asks the first question about it, **or** simply hide the topics on the forum until that happens.

I found a [similar question](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-but-dont-automatically-create-a-topic-until-a-user-chooses-to-comment/61450) that references another older thread where a user asks:

> Would it be possible to not automatically create a topic until a user chooses to comment on the article? I want to prevent having a ton of topics with no replies (i.e. which were created automatically by visitors who only read articles and not commented on them). I’m specifically thinking of a site with a large number of articles; only a few of them will actually have comments.

And @erlend_sh replies:

> I see your predicament. But instead of the potentially messy solutions discussed so far, what if the topics are indeed created normally, but until they have a reply, they are unlisted, i.e. not visible in the forum stream and only accessible via a direct link. Would that be an acceptable compromise?

> In other words, the basic spec request becomes something like this:
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> - Option to set topics generated for embedded comments as unlisted by default.

- Special flag that can be put on selected unlisted topics (in this case automatically) to make them unlisted if they receive a reply.

This actually sounds like a great solution, and from what I gather also easier technically than whatever sort of “staging” would be required to not create the associated topic at all until the first question is asked.

This would be _awesome_ to have as an option in the [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin. I’m not sure what would be involved in making it happen but let me know. We’d love to do what we can to help make this happen.

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