codinghorror shares the story of launching Boing Boing as Discourse’s second partner. Boing Boing has experimented with various comment systems since 1998, including eGroups, QuickTopic, Technorati backlinks, Movable Type, and WordPress with Disqus comments.
The partnership has led to customizations in Discourse, such as automatically closing topics after 5 days and requiring moderator approval for posts to be linked to Boing Boing entries. codinghorror mentions the WordPress Discourse plugin and its GitHub repository, which allows for integration with Discourse.
nickoneill asks about the process of pushing liked comments from Discourse to Boing Boing, and codinghorror explains that it uses the WordPress plugin and Discourse’s API. nickoneill expresses interest in using the plugin as a starting point for non-WordPress projects.
richp10 requests a PHP library to interact with Discourse, while trident suggests using the API, which is accessible through HTTP requests and can be explored by monitoring the production.log file and running rake routes.
It’s been a little over a month since we launched our second partner, Boing Boing. Boing Boing has a long history of experimenting with comment and discussion systems. The Web Archives has images of Boing Boing going all the way back to 1998, where I found: eGroups (1998 – 2001, egroups.com/list/boingboing) QuickTopic (2001 – 2003,…
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Is there a public explanation for how you push the liked comments from the meta topic back to the permalink page at Boing Boing?
Essentially it is the WordPress plugin:
https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse
Which talks to our API. No, we don’t have a documented public API yet, but remember that Discourse is a JavaScript application – not a traditional HTML website – so all its communication with the server is pretty much by definition an API.
Thanks! That makes sense, I’ll use that plugin as a starting point for something non-wordpress.
I guess this is a feature request, but a PHP library to talk to a Discourse would be very popular and encourage other interrogations. Not that my coding is good enough to do this of course, but a guy can wish out loud occasionally 
Use the API! It’s really easy to create posts, users, heck… anything you need with just HTTP requests! Watch the production.log file and do some actions, and it will record some of the stuff that’s done. You can also run rake routes and see all the routes for manipulating content.
I moved a post to a new topic: How do I set up the WordPress Discourse plugin?