Go from a Wordpress + Discourse structure to a Discourse site only?

currenty uses a strapi headless CMS backend + nextjs frontend hosted on vercel.

It also has a discourse forum attached to it:

I am also thinking about ditching the strapi backend completely and just using discourse as a headless CMS.

so this problem could be solved by hosting the “landing page” / most visited pages in a headless fashion on something like vercel.
Even in its current form Discourse could almost work as a headless CMS: We can just attach .json to the topic url and get the markdown / raw post data.

The only issue would be permanent links, curated topic lists and a publishing + permission system for authors and editors. Part of it could be done with groups and categories, but it would be nice if there was just one article / preview article category.

Maybe we should build a plugin for that :thinking:

@Canapin thanks for the topic! Great read :grinning: :+1:

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