Hi guys, so I have been googling, searching, researching and thinking about this… What I’ve found confuses me. So I am now asking you, esteemed Discourse Enthusiast, to explain to me, as if I were a 10 year old child, how to embed certain topics from my forum as an iframe on another website. A step-by-step guide without any derailments, please. For example, let’s say I want to embed THIS topic here on another website as an iframe. Thank you very much, I hope this clears up the fog for me :-).

Perhaps some simple HTML? Just change the src part to your forum’s URL. If you’re looking to embed comments and replies though, check this guide out: [image] Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript Integrations Discourse has the ability to embed the comments from a topic in a remote site using a Javascript API that creates an IFRAME. For an example of this in action, check out Coding Horror’s blog. The blog is run via Ghost but the comments are embedded from his Discourse forum. One important thing to note with this setup is that users have to navigate to your forum to post replies. This is intentional, as we feel that the posting interface on a Discourse forum is currently much richer than what we …

Hi guys, quick update. Ive found a setting that needs to be added from the console, that allows my forum to be iframed, in general. I was in a rush, and havent stored the docs to it. Please remind me to post it here if you are looking for a similiar answer.

Just as an FYI, embedding Discourse as an Iframe in another platform isn’t a good idea. The comments thing is fine, but actually embedding the topic leads to a bunch of headaches. I think I even managed to achieve a recursion at some point :sweat_smile: For reference, I was using the bot on Discourse for guidance and Sam jumped in with the following: [image]On another topic [using discourse as an iframe on another website] is going to be a problem cause discourse is simply not designed to run in an iframe. Maybe a published page as an iframe would be ok, but otherwise I would avoid doing this,

There are solutions to integrate arbitrary custom web pages in Discourse itself (instead of the other way around) Take a look at this: [image] Landing Pages Plugin small_airplane Plugin Just to point out you can now display arbitrary pages within Discourse using the Landing Pages Plugin in combination with a couple of extensions: We can’t offer support outside a contract, but if you have budget, we can help you.

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) September 7, 2024, 1:36am 3

See also the allowed_iframes site setting.

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