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[Greenline]

Long story short, I am planning a website that would offer a discourse community and general tabs to provide information.

No matter how hard I search I cannot seem to figure out before starting a 14 day trial if the customization of discourse allows for what I’m looking for.

Cartalk.com is somewhat close to what I want as in a few tabs providing information along with a community or chat tab with discourse.

Is the only thing discourse is providing is the forum function under their “community” tab or the overall theme of that site to include the forum?

I want to make sure I’m not putting the carriage before the horse in terms of having a discourse before the rest of the website if there are no templates in which to build on.

Thanks for all the help.

[NateDhaliwal]

No, Discourse is just the forum. There isn’t a seperate website that comes with it on install.

[Greenline]

Thanks so much for the speedy reply. I’m glad I asked as I didn’t want to start the trial and get things going without the rest of the site getting up and going first.

Out of curiosity, is there any website template builders that work well with embedding discourse?

[NateDhaliwal]

Wordpress has a plugin to interact with Discourse. Plugin link

You can also embed replies in your website from pages/topics on that site, like a blog.
See:

Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript

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 …

Referring to the above guide, I have done that with Jekyll, and since it uses JavaScript, it can be used widely.

And somewhat the opposite:

Embed a list of Discourse topics onto an external site

This guide explains how to embed and display a list of Discourse topics on external websites using JavaScript, allowing you to showcase forum content such as discussions or announcements on blogs, websites, or external content platforms. Required user level: Administrator Summary Embedding Discourse topics on external websites enables you to display topic lists from your Discourse forum directly on other sites. This integration helps drive traffic to your fo…

I hope that helps!

[Greenline]

Awesome. Thanks so much. I was considering WordPress so that is really great to hear it has a Discourse plugin.

Once I get the WordPress template good to go, I’ll work on embedding discourse.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

If you explore the Documentation category the sidebar if you access it there provides a really nice modified sidebar for easier exploring

You can embed discourse in a variety of websites.

[Greenline]

Thanks for the advice.

I was leaning towards WordPress but if you have another recommendation, I’ll be sure to look into that as well.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

I don’t have any direct experience with it myself. But have seen posts iirc on Ghost? Give me a moment and will see if I can find it.

But likely best to go with something you are familiar with as not sure if there are any learning curves

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

I couldn’t find it in a quick search but may have the name wrong. With there being a plugin for WP likely one of the easier options. But don’t quite me.

[Greenline]

Lol I appreciate looking into it. The plugin for WP is really attractive for sure. I’m just afraid of really trying anything else with less support.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

Well the community and team here are excellent resources. Always ppl from both sides willing to help.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

I found the correct search term. “Ghost Blog” but think the WP route might be easier and has things like the plugin.

Discourse + Ghost Blog Integration. Is my Understanding Wrong?

So I have a Ghost Blog that has articles. I have integrated Discourse into the Comments, so whenever user comments it shows ok, ON the Ghost Blog. My Understanding: (1) Integrating the Blog with Discourse will allow the comments to APPEAR IN DISCOURSE. (2) Discourse Would automatically create the Topic and Comment ON DISCOURSE . Question: Is my understanding wrong? I am NOT seeing posted comments on DISCOURSE. They are still appearing ON GHOST blog. My Discourse embed looks like this: |…

[NateDhaliwal]

CMSs should work with Discourse, not to mention blogging platforms. I set up a blog running on Jekyll, deployed on Render, to embed replies on it using Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript. It works well.

IIRC blog.codinghorror.com uses Ghost, and has the forum connected to it.

Another example is blog.discourse.org. It uses the same thing to post new blog posts in #announcements:blog, and embeds replies in the blog posts.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

Something else to note. Since you mentioned free trial. Your looking into Hosted Discourse. So you need to look at the Hosting plans to see what plugins are included to help achieve your objective best. Ie if the WP plugin is included for example.

[Architect]

@Greenline

Is the only thing discourse is providing is the forum function under their “community” tab or the overall theme of that site to include the forum?

Technically you can have a stand alone discourse site but as the other responses have stated you may want to have a word-press or other platform for site home page.

[merefield (Robert)]

Tools like this help:

Landing Pages Plugin

The Landing Pages Plugin lets you make standalone landing pages for your Discourse instance. You can display topics, users and other content from your forum. You can restrict pages to groups, apply Discourse themes, set custom paths, and manage pages in a dedicated git repository. [Screen Shot 2021-02-23 at 6.11.10 PM] Get the code Read the documentation Request a feature Report a bug Not sure how to install a plugin? Follow t…

[supermathie (Michael Brown)]

@Heliosurge

But have seen posts iirc on Ghost?

FYI https://blog.discourse.org runs on Ghost

[Greenline]

I’ll have to look into this. Maybe it will accomplish what I’m looking for. Thanks.

[satonotdead]

You can also explore the ‘publicate pages’ option on Discourse.

It offers a pleasant experience and can be managed using a proxy like Nginx with (sub)domains as well.

[Greenline]

Thanks for the advice.