Getting the most out of the Wordpress plugin

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I’ve recently added the discourse plugin to our Wordpress site.

The user journey is a bit clunky:

  • user visits ours site
  • user clicks “share your thoughts” within the comment section
  • User is brought to our forum page
  • User has to login to post

Can I make it so a user can write a comment directly on the Wordpress post?

Also, has anyone made a chat bubble for posting? Meaning:

  • user is reading the post
  • A bubble in the lower right corner appears
  • User can click into the bubble to read other posts and add theirs
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Hi Nick. :waving_hand:

The WP-Discourse plugin is designed to override those comments and replace them with replies from your Discourse instance. Since Discourse requires a login to use, you will have to choose if you want to use Discourse for discussions, or allow anonymous commenting in WordPress. :+1:

Notably, most users will only need to login into Discourse once, and that process is fairly simple. There are other benefits to engaging with users this way, but of course you will have to balance them with your goals.

I personally have not heard of this. Have you seen this elsewhere?

Discourse has related topics, of course. :slight_smile:

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I would second what Maiki said, and add that the way I often explain this to folks is that you can think of Discourse comments in Wordpress as a way to entice people into your community. You likely want people to come across and spend time in your community itself. There are many wonderful and rich features of Discourse that will only ever be on the Discourse platform, even if two-way commenting (e.g. being able to compose a post in Wordpress) is ever possible.

That said, two-way commenting functionality has been discussed in more depth here:

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