# Discourse Forum with my Wix website
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-forum-with-my-wix-website/406922
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** development, hosting
**Created:** [July 6, 2026, 4:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-forum-with-my-wix-website/406922 "2026-07-06T16:29:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Gid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gid)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2026, 4:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-forum-with-my-wix-website/406922/1 "2026-07-06T16:29:40Z")
I’ve explored & considering Discourse as a forum for my Wix site, but don’t quite understand some key things
**Q1** How exactly is Discourse free? They say its 100% free if **self hosting**.
1.1 Does this only mean custom building this using your own infrastructure?
1.2 Does this also mean it can be free for those who already have hosting with a provider like Wix?
1.3 Does it not allow connecting to my own domain with Wix without paying Discourse?
**Q2** This is just a feature of my Wix site. How can Discourse be set up/connected to/integrated with Wix?
2.1 Does Wix have some native integration for this?
2.2 Subdomains..?
2.3 Zapier?
I’m quite clueless about this setup, if people can explain an overview clarifying these that’d be great. Also, people who’ve explored & tried building forums for their websites, I’d appreciate related experiences, advice & tips.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-forum-with-my-wix-website/406922/2 "2026-07-06T17:55:26Z")
> [@Gid](#):
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> **Q1** How exactly is Discourse free? They say its 100% free if **self hosting**.
It is free when you self host ([here is a guide)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-discourse-just-got-a-whole-lot-easier/393915), but the screenshots you have are from our **free** **hosting,** which is not the same as self hosting.
When you self-host, you can have any domain you want, when you are using our hosting, you can’t without upgrading.
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-forum-with-my-wix-website/406922/3 "2026-07-06T23:18:51Z")
To run Discourse without any limitation, you can either self-host, or run the Enterprise plan with Discourse hosting.
Ultimately, it’s not that simple to be 100% free. Even with self-hosting, you need to pay for a server \[1\], domain (but Discourse now offers free \*.discourse.diy domains during installation), and a reliable SMTP service if you have a large userbase (if not, something like Brevo with 300 emails/day could work).
> [@Gid](#):
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> 1.2 Does this also mean it can be free for those who already have hosting with a provider like Wix?
In terms of hosting, no, it cannot. It also won’t work, since Discourse needs a linux-based server, and uses a database, uses Docker, etc etc.
> [@Gid](#):
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> **Q2** This is just a feature of my Wix site. How can Discourse be set up/connected to/integrated with Wix?
> 2.1 Does Wix have some native integration for this?
> 2.2 Subdomains..?
> 2.3 Zapier?
Could you elaborate further on what ‘integration’ you’re looking for? From the top of my head, these few came to mind:
> [@Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-discourse-comments-on-another-website-via-javascript/31963):
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> 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](http://blog.codinghorror.com/welcome-to-the-internet-of-compromised-things/#discourse-comments). The blog is run via [Ghost](https://ghost.org/) but the comments are embedded from his [Discourse forum](http://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/welcome-to-the-internet-of-compromised-things/3550). 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 …
> [@Trigger a Zapier task with Discourse Webhooks](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trigger-a-zapier-task-with-discourse-webhooks/56753):
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> Want to use Discourse Webhooks to trigger a task via [Zapier](https://zapier.com)? Let’s get started! bulb Tip: Zapier now has an [official Discourse integration](https://zapier.com/apps/discourse/integrations) with built-in triggers and actions (e.g. “New Post”, “Create Post”). For common use cases, this is simpler than configuring generic webhooks manually. The guide below covers the manual webhook approach, which gives you more flexibility and access to all Discourse event types. Zapier requires a trigger and an action. In this howto the trigger…
(See all Zapier integrations [here](https://meta.discourse.org/filter?q=category%3Aintegrations%20tag%3Azapier))
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1. Unless you use the Google Cloud or Oracle free tier, but those are so underpoered they can barely run Discourse. Your phone likely has better specs.
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### Author:  [@Gid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gid)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2026, 1:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-forum-with-my-wix-website/406922/4 "2026-07-07T13:13:43Z")
Thanks for that great response. You cleared pretty much all my current doubts.
By integration at this stage I was mostly looking for a way to have it more deeply ‘integrated’ with my current Wix site; to at least host it there & on my domain. But as yall have well explained I understand that it can’t work & can only get close to that with pro plan.
1. If yall find better workarounds for this in the near future, pls update here. Specially if it’s a way a rookie coder like I can build
2. **Major Proposal** @Discourse @noahl : Would yall consider some **partnership with Wix** , to make it available in the Wix ecosystem?
You can reach **Wix’s huge customer base** with this. Specially since recently there’s been a huge **demand in the Wix community for a forum app**. Last year Wix made a terrible decision in **shutting down their Wix Forum app** , which used be a highly useful & valued app, & a core part of many people’s sites. So **people were outraged**. You can look this up. So there’s a large customer base at Wix that are still looking for a good alternative. **Discourse is perfect**. & Wix users will thank you for this.
After all, Wix even uses Discourse as their own forum! [https://forum.wixstudio.com/](https://forum.wixstudio.com/)
Lmk what yall think about this. We’d appreciate updates on your progress with this
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 1:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-forum-with-my-wix-website/406922/5 "2026-08-06T13:13:45Z")
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