Copying Discourse posts to Wordpress?
User12 is looking for a way to automate copying Discourse posts to a WordPress blog, as their current manual process is time-consuming. Maiki suggests using the FeedWordPress plugin to publish items from a specific tag’s RSS feed.
However, User12 notes that this method doesn’t account for specific plugin options, such as adding a canonical URL that refers to the original Discourse post. Maiki questions the need for cross-posting with a canonical URL, suggesting it would be easier to simply link to the Discourse topic in a WordPress blog post.
User12 explains that the reason for cross-posting with a canonical URL is to avoid duplicate content showing up in search engines for SEO purposes.
We have a kind of local community contest where winning posts get posted on a WordPress blog.
Is there a way to automate copying a Discourse post to WordPress?
Or any suggestions on how someone would go ahead with such a thing?
Because currently we just copy posts manually, which is annoying and time-consuming.
Here’s a quick recipe I’ve used:
the-best-content)You could also move content into a special winning category, and use that categories RSS.
But how would one deal with specific plugin options?
Like when copying the post, we are adding a canonical option to the post, so it always refers to the original Discourse post And we are linking WordPress post with Discourse, to show original comments, and other options.
How would one automate plugin options like this?
This sounds really complicated. Why are you cross-posting to WordPress, but keeping the canonical URL pointed at the Discourse topic? It would be vastly easier to just link to the Discourse topic in a WordPress blog post.
For SEO, so we avoid duplicate content from showing up in search engines.