Hello Discourse Community! I’m planning to build a platform on top of a self-hosted Discourse instance that will include various custom features like a search engine, documentary resources, wikis, and more. These features are developed using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, primarily as static pages. My…

I don’t know (you can embed though) but out of cat killing curiosity: what do you mean about static page of a dynamic app?

Well all of the features I plan to implement, like those mentioned above, is static codes, which means all of it is build through HTML, CSS and vanilla JS. I wonder if it is possible to make static page, and add the custom codes for the features mentioned onto my own Discourse instances.

Sorry to continue this, but Discourse isn’t static. It is dynamic. So are most of JS-solutions too, or PHP-based. So, is this now question of terms? And you just want embed Discourse forum per se into a web page among everything else? You can show topics, but you will miss almost everything else fu…

@JstTan You may want to take a look at: [image] Landing Pages Plugin small_airplane 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 t…

No, the code that I plan to implement, like the page I want to add into my Discourse forum is static page, so there wouldn’t be any server-side rendering and etc. No, I want to add the web page, onto my Discourse forum instance. Opposite of what you saying actually.

This is quite cool, but I actually thinking of another thing, like adding and creating static page inside Discourse. The page would also needed to add custom HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

A similar question was aked eecently. Here is an answer given: [image] How to link a static html page Support I would look at using published pages.

Well, I has noticed that my question might be very confusing, so I has edited the question with the message re-generated with ChatGPT. This is the edited question: Hello Discourse Community! I’m planning to build a platform on top of a self-hosted Discourse instance that will include various custo…

Would published page be suitable for my aim through?

[image] jsttan: I’m planning to build a platform on top of a self-hosted Discourse instance that will include various custom features like a search engine, documentary resources, wikis, and more. Those all sound like things that Discourse has already. [image] jsttan: My goal is to integr…

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) November 14, 2024, 9:08am 5

@JstTan You may want to take a look at:

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