Users are discussing potential integrations between Discourse and WordPress. agf1997 wants to add the Discourse hamburger and user menu to their WordPress site for a seamless user experience. tobiaseigen suggests replicating the HTML and CSS from Discourse in WordPress, but notes that real-time updates, such as notifications, might be challenging to achieve. tobiaseigen also shares the approach taken by the Legal Empowerment Network, which uses a separate utility bar for WordPress and Discourse, but acknowledges that this can result in a less seamless experience.
I’m obviously familiar with the wp-discourse plugin but I’m looking to do even more integration.
Specifically, I’m interested in having the discourse hamburger and user menu show up on my wordpress site to provide a more seamless feel for the user as they move across my entire site.
Does anyone have any thoughts on how I might be able to add those widgets to a wordpress site?
Thanks
This is a nice idea! I’ve often wanted to be able to do this as well. I think all the info you need exists in wordpress, except maybe the notifications and stuff that live updates as things happen in discourse. I think you could get pretty close by just copying the html and css to replicate what you see on discourse on wordpress. Would be nice to have a recipe for this here so if you get there, please share your results!
In case you are curious, the Legal Empowerment Network took a different approach. Feel free to join to see how it feels as a user. The utility bar across the top looks different and replicates the usual wordpress way of doing things. It also provides access to some additional features that exist only in wordpress and not in discourse. The wordpress site also serves additional purposes that are not directly about the network, so keeping them a bit separate works towards that goal too.
This is a little unsatisfying because the experience is not seamless. Would be preferable to have one utility bar that is the same across both platforms.
The way most sites do this (you probably know this too) is to put a header across the top of both wordpress and discourse that is the same, with the discourse header below that.