# Embedding the Forum into Wordpress
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-the-forum-into-wordpress/70964
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 28, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-the-forum-into-wordpress/70964 "2017-09-28T17:05:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@George\_Morris](https://meta.discourse.org/u/George_Morris)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-the-forum-into-wordpress/70964/1 "2017-09-28T17:05:58Z")
I’m at a complete loss and I would love to move forward with Discourse but I can’t find documentation that’s up to date because so much that I’ve read is deprecated. Here is the gist.
**Use Case:** I have a member only site I’m creating. Users pay to access the content which is a blend of private videos, files and then access to the Discourse forum.
**Setup:** I’m running the main site at [http://theonefifty.com](http://theonefifty.com) where it’s powered by WordPress, I’m running Discourse at [http://cohort.theonefifty.com](http://cohort.theonefifty.com)
**What I want:** Users come to the WordPress site, fill out an application and once it’s reviewed and approved I manually create their Discourse account. (Ideally SSO would work here but right now that’s a secondary objective.) Once I approve the users I want them to login to their account and have access to both WordPress and Discourse content in a seamless way. Ideally I’d wrap Discourse with the WordPress theme by embedding Discourse into the Forum page I’ve created in WordPress… is this even possible?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-the-forum-into-wordpress/70964/2 "2017-09-28T17:55:58Z")
> [@George\_Morris](#):
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> Ideally I’d wrap Discourse with the WordPress theme by embedding Discourse into the Forum page I’ve created in WordPress… is this even possible?
No, that’s not possible since Discourse is a single page application and it is not good web practice in general.
You should make a custom menu for your Discourse instance and style it just like your WordPress menu:
> [@Add a custom header with a dropdown menu](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-header-with-dropdown-navigation/33451):
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> We’ll be implementing a black header with one link that reveals a menu of more links, like this: In Admin \> Customize \> CSS/HTML, create a new customization. Remember that you can have multiple customizations active at the same time, so it’s a good idea to use many of them instead of one giant one for everything. For this custom header, create a new customization called “Header Nav”. To implement this sample nav, we need some CSS, HTML, and javascript to show and hide the d…
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### Author:  [@George\_Morris](https://meta.discourse.org/u/George_Morris)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-the-forum-into-wordpress/70964/3 "2017-09-28T18:04:35Z")
Wonderful. This will work great and thank you for the solid suggestion!
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-the-forum-into-wordpress/70964/4 "2024-06-08T12:44:19Z")
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