Create topic when a link is clicked

[david (David Taylor)]

Topics are automatically created when you use the embedded comments feature:

Embedding Discourse Comments 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 …

See articles on https://blog.codinghorror.com for an example

For Wordpress setting this up can be done with the Wordpress plugin:

WP Discourse 1.4.0 Release

Version 1.4.0 of the WP Discourse is now available in the WordPress plugin repository. The code is also on GitHub. The big changes in this release are adding an option to sync Discourse topics to their associated WordPress posts with a webhook, and adding support for connecting a single Discourse forum to a WordPress multisite network. Check out the Webhook Settings and Multisite Support sections of the WP Discourse installation and setup topic for details about both of these features. Other c…