Embed Discourse Post in Wordpress blog post?

[simon]

Would something like what is outlined in this post work for you?

Link existing forum topic to new WordPress post

I’ve done some work on making a shortcode for displaying Discourse topics. At this point, it only displays the first post in the topic, it doesn’t display any of the comments. It gives you the option of displaying the full post content, an excerpt, or just the title and some metadata about the topic. The styles I’m using here are rough, but this gives you an idea of how it could work. Adding a couple of shortcodes like this: [discourse_topic topic_id=384 excerpt_length=45] [discourse_topic to…

It’s not yet a part of the WordPress plugin, but it could be added if there is some interest in using it.

Edit: The WP Discourse plugin now gives you the option to link existing Discourse topics to WordPress posts.