Install the WP Discourse Wordpress plugin

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The discussion focuses on installing the WP Discourse WordPress plugin. angus provides instructions for installation via the WordPress dashboard, direct download, or Composer, and includes a Loom video tutorial. tantramar reports issues with the video not playing in Firefox and Safari, which simon attributes to a recent Discourse change affecting Loom embeds. Lilly resolves the issue by rebuilding the post. CAX.DO asks about synchronizing WordPress posts to different Discourse categories, and angus explains that category selection is possible during post creation in WordPress, with guidance provided via the Discourse sidebar in Gutenberg.

The first step in using the WP Discourse plugin is installing it on your Wordpress. When you’re ready to go, watch this short video, or follow the instructions below.

Next Step

Once the plugin is installed, head over to Connect WP Discourse to Discourse for the next step.


Instructions

Install from your WordPress dashboard

  1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
  2. Search for ‘WP Discourse’
  3. Activate WP Discourse from your Plugins page

Install from WordPress.org

You can find the plugin at WP Discourse – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org .

  1. Download WP Discourse
  2. Upload the ‘wp-discourse’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
  3. Activate WP Discourse from your Plugins page

Install with Composer

If you’re using Composer to manage WordPress, add WP-Discourse to your project’s dependencies. Run:

composer require discourse/wp-discourse ~1.6.1

Or manually add it to your composer.json:

{
  "require": {
    "php": ">=5.4.0",
    "discourse/wp-discourse": "~1.6.1"
  }
}
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What format are these videos? “No video with supported format and MIME type found.” in Firefox; just the .gif with no message in Safari.

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They’re embedded from Loom. The video in this topic isn’t playing for me either (latest Chrome on Ubuntu.) Maybe rebaking the post would fix it. There was a change recently to how Discourse handles Loom embeds: https://meta.discourse.org/t/loom-embedded-videos-not-playing-loading-it-was-working-fine-before/297498/46?u=simon.

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I rebuilt the HTML and it seems to be working now. Thanks for the heads up :slight_smile:

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Sweet! Thanks so much. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses::+1:

Hi @angus Thank you for your work. I’d like to ask if it is possible to synchronize WordPress posts to different categories.

Hello @CAX.DO, you can select the category you wish the Wordpress post to be published to when you’re composing the post in Wordpress. If you’re using the new Gutenberg composer check out the Discourse sidebar on the right.

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