Possible to create a news site with pics and videos

Thanks! I checked out the plugin on wordpress.org

So it looks like the plugin lets you cross-post wordpress posts into a discourse site, for discussion and comments etc, is that right?

Example:
On this story on boingboing.net => This mini-printer makes memos anywhere with zero ink refills - Boing Boing
if you click “34 comments” it goes to the discourse site at bbs.boingboing.net to
This mini-printer makes memos anywhere with zero ink refills - boing - Boing Boing BBS

Which has “Read entire post” and if you click that, it shows entire post that’s on boingboing.net wordpress blog.

What if I don’t want to cross post, i.e. only have the discourse site as the main news site? Can I achieve that using this plugin, and somehow keep the wordpress site out of view of the search engines and stuff (i.e. use wordpress as the discourse posting engine) ?

Thank you!