{"post_stream":{"posts":[{"id":1203334,"name":"Coin-coin le Canapin","username":"Canapin","avatar_template":"/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/{size}/119591_2.png","created_at":"2022-11-30T23:37:43.437Z","cooked":"\u003cdiv data-theme-toc=\"true\"\u003e \u003c/div\u003eHi!\n\u003cp\u003eBefore reading what follows, you may have a look to \u003ca href=\"https://meta.discourse.org/t/moved-from-pluxml-and-phpbb-to-wordpress-and-discourse-my-all-new-experience/90636\" class=\"inline-onebox\"\u003eMoved from PluXml and phpBB to Wordpress and Discourse, my all-new experience 🎉\u003c/a\u003e but that’s not mandatory, I’ll do a recap.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat we have right now.\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA WP Website: \u003ca href=\"https://monocycle.info\"\u003ehttps://monocycle.info\u003c/a\u003e (\u003ca href=\"https://fr.wordpress.org/themes/colormag/\"\u003eColormag theme\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Discourse forum: \u003ca href=\"https://forum.monocycle.info\"\u003ehttps://forum.monocycle.info\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWP is connected to Discourse through \u003ca href=\"https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-and-configure-the-wp-discourse-wordpress-plugin-for-discourse/50752\"\u003eWP Discourse\u003c/a\u003e. WP is also the \u003ca href=\"https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045\"\u003eDiscourseConnect\u003c/a\u003e Client, and the WP news are automatically published to Discourse in a \u003ca href=\"https://forum.monocycle.info/c/actualites/47\"\u003ededicated category\u003c/a\u003e. That’s all the plugin does for us.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe WP website is primarily focused on the news and static information pages.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Discourse forum is… A forum. Where the community meets, talks, and organizes stuff at times.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Question\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI asked myself: “What really is the \u003cem\u003epurpose\u003c/em\u003e of the website? The added value is low, and a lot of the site’s features could be made in Discourse. So, why bother with two platforms?”\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote that I’m just at the beginning of my thinking. But I’m starting to think that could be a good idea to get rid of Worpdress in our case.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo, what are the benefits of the website? It has a clean, news-focused layout. It has small features that seem nice but are maybe useless. The sports federation Facebook iframe.  A magazine button. The forum’s recent activity.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe event calendar (a custom solution).\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd many static pages of information about unicycle stuff.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat of that can’t be done in Discourse? Pretty much nothing.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe main concern would be how to make the news more visible on our forum. There isn’t new info every week, but they are important in the French unicycling community and they should be visible.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI discussed this with two involved people in this forum/site. They think that getting rid of WP could be a good idea if we don’t lose anything important that the website gives to us.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe technical stuff.\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe custom Discourse header would stay as it is.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe news could use \u003ca href=\"https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971\" class=\"inline-onebox\"\u003eNews Plugin 📰\u003c/a\u003e. Not as the \u003cstrong\u003emain\u003c/strong\u003e page, because the forum’s content wouldn’t be available until we click on some “forum” button (like \u003ca href=\"https://www.elektronauts.com/news\" class=\"inline-onebox\"\u003eElektronauts\u003c/a\u003e) and we want to emphasize the online community activity as well. I’ve not tried the news plugin yet though.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, we’d like to have some news on the forum’s home page. I remember seeing a plugin or a theme component that was showing some posts in a banner on top of the topics, but I can be wrong. Is there an existing solution to that? The best use for us, I think, would be to have something like the 3 last news with a thumbnail and an excerpt on the top of the home page, below the header, and that we could toggle this banner so it doesn’t bother us if we have already read these topics.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe website’s static pages could be either topics or published pages.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"https://monocycle.info/wiki/accueil/\"\u003ewiki\u003c/a\u003e could use Discourse’s wiki feature.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe don’t need the newsletter (Discourse’s digest would replace this), and my co-admin sees no real purpose to the sports federation embedded facebook posts stream, as well as some other things.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have an \u003ca href=\"https://monocycle.info/agenda/\"\u003eevent category\u003c/a\u003e (custom solution), which is a bit empty these days, but has its usefulness, and we’d like to keep the kind of event category with specific features.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’ve seen and tried several events/calendar plugins by the past:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-event/149964\" class=\"inline-onebox\"\u003e🗓 Discourse Event\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://meta.discourse.org/t/events-plugin/69776\" class=\"inline-onebox\"\u003eEvents Plugin 📆\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-calendar/97376\" class=\"inline-onebox\"\u003eDiscourse Calendar\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome were a bit awkward to understand or configure, and my needs were a bit different when I tried them, so I should try again.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePros and cons of keeping only Discourse\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePros\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo more potential issues with WP, its many extensions/themes/custom clumsy code \u003csup class=\"footnote-ref\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#footnote-1203334-1\" id=\"footnote-ref-1203334-1\"\u003e[1]\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/sup\u003e and WP/Discourse compatibility when publishing posts.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly one platform to consider and focus on\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll the data will be organized in a single database, making things simpler if we need to move all our stuff one day (even Discourse isn’t eternal… Or is it? \u003cimg src=\"https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/yum.png?v=12\" title=\":yum:\" class=\"emoji\" alt=\":yum:\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCons\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBit of work to “move” some stuff from WP to Discourse\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeed to find proper solutions for a few features\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeed to set-up 301 redirections\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eYour opinion, thoughts, advice\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI think I’ve explained well what I aim for. I’d be glad to hear any suggestions, advice, etc, about this possible transition from WP+D to D.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"footnotes-sep\"\u003e\n\n\u003col class=\"footnotes-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"footnote-1203334-1\" class=\"footnote-item\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eyou don’t want to look at it; don’t even try to think about it, I’m already ashamed \u003ca href=\"#footnote-ref-1203334-1\" class=\"footnote-backref\"\u003e↩︎\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e","post_number":1,"post_type":1,"posts_count":12,"updated_at":"2022-12-01T00:17:30.369Z","reply_count":0,"reply_to_post_number":null,"quote_count":0,"incoming_link_count":271,"reads":90,"readers_count":89,"score":1498.0,"yours":false,"topic_id":247273,"topic_slug":"go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only","display_username":"Coin-coin le Canapin","primary_group_name":null,"flair_name":null,"flair_url":null,"flair_bg_color":null,"flair_color":null,"flair_group_id":null,"badges_granted":[],"version":3,"can_edit":false,"can_delete":false,"can_recover":false,"can_see_hidden_post":false,"can_wiki":false,"link_counts":[{"url":"https://monocycle.info","internal":false,"reflection":false,"title":"Monocycle.info - Le site de référence du monocycle francophone","clicks":14},{"url":"https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971","internal":true,"reflection":false,"title":"News Plugin :newspaper:","clicks":10},{"url":"https://forum.monocycle.info","internal":false,"reflection":false,"title":"Monocycle.info - Le site de référence du monocycle francophone","clicks":6},{"url":"https://meta.discourse.org/t/moved-from-pluxml-and-phpbb-to-wordpress-and-discourse-my-all-new-experience/90636","internal":true,"reflection":false,"title":"Moved from PluXml and phpBB to Wordpress and Discourse, my all-new experience :tada:","clicks":3},{"url":"https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-event/149964","internal":true,"reflection":false,"title":"Creating and managing events","clicks":3},{"url":"https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-calendar/97376","internal":true,"reflection":false,"title":"Discourse Calendar (and Event)","clicks":2},{"url":"https://meta.discourse.org/t/events-plugin/69776","internal":true,"reflection":false,"title":"Events Plugin :calendar:","clicks":2},{"url":"https://www.elektronauts.com/news","internal":false,"reflection":false,"clicks":2},{"url":"https://monocycle.info/wiki/accueil/","internal":false,"reflection":false,"clicks":1},{"url":"https://forum.monocycle.info/c/actualites/47","internal":false,"reflection":false,"title":"Actualités - Monocycle.info","clicks":1},{"url":"https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-and-configure-the-wp-discourse-wordpress-plugin-for-discourse/50752","internal":true,"reflection":false,"title":"Install and configure the WP Discourse Wordpress plugin for Discourse","clicks":1},{"url":"https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-discourseconnect-official-single-sign-on-for-discourse-sso/13045","internal":true,"reflection":false,"title":"Setup DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso)","clicks":0},{"url":"https://fr.wordpress.org/themes/colormag/","internal":false,"reflection":false,"title":"ColorMag – Thème WordPress | WordPress.org Français","clicks":0},{"url":"https://monocycle.info/agenda/","internal":false,"reflection":false,"clicks":0},{"url":"https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-blog-article-and-comments/250163/11","internal":true,"reflection":true,"title":"Discourse blog (article and comments)","clicks":1}],"read":true,"user_title":"Solution Institution","title_is_group":false,"bookmarked":false,"raw":"\n\u003cdiv data-theme-toc=\"true\"\u003e \u003c/div\u003eHi!\n\nBefore reading what follows, you may have a look to https://meta.discourse.org/t/moved-from-pluxml-and-phpbb-to-wordpress-and-discourse-my-all-new-experience/90636 but that's not mandatory, I'll do a recap.\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat we have right now.\u003c/h2\u003e\n\n* A WP Website: https://monocycle.info ([Colormag theme](https://fr.wordpress.org/themes/colormag/)).\n\n* A Discourse forum: https://forum.monocycle.info\n\nWP is connected to Discourse through [WP Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-and-configure-the-wp-discourse-wordpress-plugin-for-discourse/50752). WP is also the DiscourseConnect Client, and the WP news are automatically published to Discourse in a [dedicated category](https://forum.monocycle.info/c/actualites/47). That's all the plugin does for us.\n\n* The WP website is primarily focused on the news and static information pages.\n\n* The Discourse forum is… A forum. Where the community meets, talks, and organizes stuff at times.\n\n---\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Question\u003c/h2\u003e\n\nI asked myself: \"What really is the *purpose* of the website? The added value is low, and a lot of the site's features could be made in Discourse. So, why bother with two platforms?\"\n\nNote that I'm just at the beginning of my thinking. But I'm starting to think that could be a good idea to get rid of Worpdress in our case.\n\nSo, what are the benefits of the website? It has a clean, news-focused layout. It has small features that seem nice but are maybe useless. The sports federation Facebook iframe.  A magazine button. The forum's recent activity.\nThe event calendar (a custom solution).\nAnd many static pages of information about unicycle stuff.\n\nWhat of that can't be done in Discourse? Pretty much nothing.\n\nThe main concern would be how to make the news more visible on our forum. There isn't new info every week, but they are important in the French unicycling community and they should be visible.\n\nI discussed this with two involved people in this forum/site. They think that getting rid of WP could be a good idea if we don't lose anything important that the website gives to us.\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe technical stuff.\u003c/h2\u003e\n\n* The custom Discourse header would stay as it is.\n\n* The news could use https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971?u=canapin. Not as the **main** page, because the forum's content wouldn't be available until we click on some \"forum\" button (like https://www.elektronauts.com/news) and we want to emphasize the online community activity as well. I've not tried the news plugin yet though.\n\n* However, we'd like to have some news on the forum's home page. I remember seeing a plugin or a theme component that was showing some posts in a banner on top of the topics, but I can be wrong. Is there an existing solution to that? The best use for us, I think, would be to have something like the 3 last news with a thumbnail and an excerpt on the top of the home page, below the header, and that we could toggle this banner so it doesn't bother us if we have already read these topics.\n\n* The website's static pages could be either topics or published pages.\n\n* The [wiki](https://monocycle.info/wiki/accueil/) could use Discourse's wiki feature.\n\n* We don't need the newsletter (Discourse's digest would replace this), and my co-admin sees no real purpose to the sports federation embedded facebook posts stream, as well as some other things.\n\n* We have an [event category](https://monocycle.info/agenda/) (custom solution), which is a bit empty these days, but has its usefulness, and we'd like to keep the kind of event category with specific features.\n\nI've seen and tried several events/calendar plugins by the past:\n* https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-event/149964?u=canapin\n\n* https://meta.discourse.org/t/events-plugin/69776?u=canapin\n* https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-calendar/97376?u=canapin\n\nSome were a bit awkward to understand or configure, and my needs were a bit different when I tried them, so I should try again.\n\n\u003ch2\u003ePros and cons of keeping only Discourse\u003c/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePros\u003c/h3\u003e\n\n* No more potential issues with WP, its many extensions/themes/custom clumsy code [^code] and WP/Discourse compatibility when publishing posts.\n\n[^code]: you don't want to look at it; don't even try to think about it, I'm already ashamed\n\n* Only one platform to consider and focus on\n\n* All the data will be organized in a single database, making things simpler if we need to move all our stuff one day (even Discourse isn't eternal… Or is it? 😋)\n\n\u003ch3\u003eCons\u003c/h3\u003e\n\n* Bit of work to \"move\" some stuff from WP to Discourse\n\n* Need to find proper solutions for a few features\n\n* Need to set-up 301 redirections\n\n\u003ch2\u003eYour opinion, thoughts, advice\u003c/h2\u003e\n\nI think I've explained well what I aim for. I'd be glad to hear any suggestions, advice, etc, about this possible transition from WP+D to D.","actions_summary":[{"id":2,"count":7}],"moderator":false,"admin":false,"staff":false,"user_id":35474,"hidden":false,"trust_level":3,"deleted_at":null,"user_deleted":false,"edit_reason":null,"can_view_edit_history":true,"wiki":false,"post_url":"/t/go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only/247273/1","locale":"en","is_localized":false,"language":"en","activity_pub_enabled":false,"boosts":[],"can_boost":false,"event":null,"calendar_details":[],"customer_flair_customer":null,"direct_reply_count":0,"reactions":[{"id":"heart","type":"emoji","count":7}],"current_user_reaction":null,"reaction_users_count":7,"current_user_used_main_reaction":false,"can_accept_answer":false,"can_unaccept_answer":false,"accepted_answer":false,"topic_accepted_answer":null,"can_vote":false},{"id":1203357,"name":"Stephen","username":"Stephen","avatar_template":"/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/{size}/95011_2.png","created_at":"2022-12-01T00:28:11.937Z","cooked":"\u003cp\u003eI think this would probably boil down to how much traffic each site generates, and your budget.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscourse can absolutely do all of the above, but if you’re serving a ton of content to anonymous users on the WordPress site your cost per page view is significantly lower.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA $5 VPS configured correctly can serve millions of read-only page views pretty effortlessly, that’s where WordPress excels. The same traffic would need considerably more resources were it served via Discourse. WordPress is still an incredibly effective tool if you care about such stuff. Configured correctly it’s also pretty excellent for curating the content you serve up to search engines.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI have one customer who currently pays DO about $100/month for the two. When we investigated moving things wholesale to Discourse the running costs would have been an order of magnitude greater, it’s safe to say that piece of work didn’t go ahead.\u003c/p\u003e","post_number":2,"post_type":1,"posts_count":12,"updated_at":"2022-12-01T00:28:11.937Z","reply_count":1,"reply_to_post_number":null,"quote_count":0,"incoming_link_count":0,"reads":77,"readers_count":76,"score":80.4,"yours":false,"topic_id":247273,"topic_slug":"go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only","display_username":"Stephen","primary_group_name":null,"flair_name":"support-experts","flair_url":"https://d11a6trkgmumsb.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/2/e250ec403580530d19e6a9ed42d0d525a51a9dbe.svg","flair_bg_color":"FFFFFF","flair_color":"","flair_group_id":142,"badges_granted":[],"version":1,"can_edit":false,"can_delete":false,"can_recover":false,"can_see_hidden_post":false,"can_wiki":false,"read":true,"user_title":"Leader","title_is_group":false,"bookmarked":false,"raw":"I think this would probably boil down to how much traffic each site generates, and your budget.\n\nDiscourse can absolutely do all of the above, but if you're serving a ton of content to anonymous users on the WordPress site your cost per page view is significantly lower. \n\nA $5 VPS configured correctly can serve millions of read-only page views pretty effortlessly, that's where WordPress excels. The same traffic would need considerably more resources were it served via Discourse. WordPress is still an incredibly effective tool if you care about such stuff. Configured correctly it's also pretty excellent for curating the content you serve up to search engines. \n\nI have one customer who currently pays DO about $100/month for the two. When we investigated moving things wholesale to Discourse the running costs would have been an order of magnitude greater, it's safe to say that piece of work didn't go ahead.","actions_summary":[{"id":2,"count":4}],"moderator":false,"admin":false,"staff":false,"user_id":13042,"hidden":false,"trust_level":4,"deleted_at":null,"user_deleted":false,"edit_reason":null,"can_view_edit_history":true,"wiki":false,"post_url":"/t/go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only/247273/2","locale":"en","is_localized":false,"language":"en","activity_pub_enabled":false,"boosts":[],"can_boost":false,"event":null,"customer_flair_customer":null,"direct_reply_count":0,"reactions":[{"id":"heart","type":"emoji","count":4}],"current_user_reaction":null,"reaction_users_count":4,"current_user_used_main_reaction":false,"can_accept_answer":false,"can_unaccept_answer":false,"accepted_answer":false,"topic_accepted_answer":null},{"id":1203361,"name":"Coin-coin le Canapin","username":"Canapin","avatar_template":"/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/{size}/119591_2.png","created_at":"2022-12-01T00:33:11.694Z","cooked":"\u003cp\u003eGreat concerns. I should I have mentioned info about that.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a very niche website. The traffic is low by essence. It doesn’t cost anything in bandwidth or disk space or anything. Both sites run smoothly on my VPS along other web stuff and I’m doing all of this as volunteer work. \u003cimg src=\"https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=12\" title=\":slight_smile:\" class=\"emoji\" alt=\":slight_smile:\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe SEO aspect would be interesting to study though. I didn’t thought about that. \u003cimg src=\"https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/thinking.png?v=12\" title=\":thinking:\" class=\"emoji\" alt=\":thinking:\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","post_number":3,"post_type":1,"posts_count":12,"updated_at":"2022-12-01T00:35:14.743Z","reply_count":1,"reply_to_post_number":null,"quote_count":0,"incoming_link_count":0,"reads":78,"readers_count":77,"score":65.6,"yours":false,"topic_id":247273,"topic_slug":"go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only","display_username":"Coin-coin le Canapin","primary_group_name":null,"flair_name":null,"flair_url":null,"flair_bg_color":null,"flair_color":null,"flair_group_id":null,"badges_granted":[],"version":1,"can_edit":false,"can_delete":false,"can_recover":false,"can_see_hidden_post":false,"can_wiki":false,"read":true,"user_title":"Solution Institution","title_is_group":false,"bookmarked":false,"raw":"Great concerns. I should I have mentioned info about that.\n\nThis is a very niche website. The traffic is low by essence. It doesn't cost anything in bandwidth or disk space or anything. Both sites run smoothly on my VPS along other web stuff and I'm doing all of this as volunteer work. :slight_smile:\n\nThe SEO aspect would be interesting to study though. I didn't thought about that. :thinking:","actions_summary":[{"id":2,"count":3}],"moderator":false,"admin":false,"staff":false,"user_id":35474,"hidden":false,"trust_level":3,"deleted_at":null,"user_deleted":false,"edit_reason":null,"can_view_edit_history":true,"wiki":false,"post_url":"/t/go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only/247273/3","locale":"en","is_localized":false,"language":"en","activity_pub_enabled":false,"boosts":[],"can_boost":false,"event":null,"customer_flair_customer":null,"direct_reply_count":1,"reactions":[{"id":"heart","type":"emoji","count":3}],"current_user_reaction":null,"reaction_users_count":3,"current_user_used_main_reaction":false,"can_accept_answer":false,"can_unaccept_answer":false,"accepted_answer":false,"topic_accepted_answer":null},{"id":1203370,"name":"","username":"spirobel","avatar_template":"/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/spirobel/{size}/170908_2.png","created_at":"2022-12-01T01:02:58.586Z","cooked":"\u003caside class=\"onebox allowlistedgeneric\" data-onebox-src=\"https://monerochan.news\"\u003e\n  \u003cheader class=\"source\"\u003e\n      \u003cimg src=\"https://d11a6trkgmumsb.cloudfront.net/original/4X/8/e/5/8e5ca23573399a3589a41202f58a05590f355230.png\" class=\"site-icon\" data-dominant-color=\"B2B2B2\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\"\u003e\n\n      \u003ca href=\"https://monerochan.news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\"\u003emonerochan.news\u003c/a\u003e\n  \u003c/header\u003e\n\n  \u003carticle class=\"onebox-body\"\u003e\n    \u003cdiv class=\"aspect-image\" style=\"--aspect-ratio:484/500;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://d11a6trkgmumsb.cloudfront.net/optimized/4X/9/c/2/9c28f70e14f0d433a0ba52a54ec5fb820729f1a6_2_484x500.png\" class=\"thumbnail\" data-dominant-color=\"000000\" width=\"484\" height=\"500\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://monerochan.news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\"\u003eMonerochan News\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eFreedom Dies in Darkness\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n  \u003c/article\u003e\n\n  \u003cdiv class=\"onebox-metadata\"\u003e\n    \n    \n  \u003c/div\u003e\n\n  \u003cdiv style=\"clear: both\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/aside\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\ncurrenty uses a strapi headless CMS backend  + nextjs frontend hosted on vercel.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt also has a discourse forum attached to it:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://forum.monerochan.news/\" class=\"onebox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\"\u003ehttps://forum.monerochan.news/\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nI am also thinking about ditching the strapi backend completely and just using discourse as a headless CMS.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003caside class=\"quote no-group\" data-username=\"Stephen\" data-post=\"2\" data-topic=\"247273\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"title\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quote-controls\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cimg alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" src=\"https://d3bpeqsaub0i6y.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/48/95011_2.png\" class=\"avatar\"\u003e Stephen:\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA $5 VPS configured correctly can serve millions of read-only page views pretty effortlessly, that’s where WordPress excels. The same traffic would need considerably more resources were it served via Discourse. WordPress is still an incredibly effective tool if you care about such stuff. Configured correctly it’s also pretty excellent for curating the content you serve up to search engines.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c/aside\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eso this problem could be solved by hosting the “landing page” / most visited pages in a headless fashion on something like vercel.\u003cbr\u003e\nEven 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.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaybe we should build a plugin for that \u003cimg src=\"https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/thinking.png?v=12\" title=\":thinking:\" class=\"emoji\" alt=\":thinking:\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca class=\"mention\" href=\"/u/canapin\"\u003e@Canapin\u003c/a\u003e  thanks for the topic! Great read \u003cimg src=\"https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/grinning.png?v=12\" title=\":grinning:\" class=\"emoji\" alt=\":grinning:\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/+1.png?v=12\" title=\":+1:\" class=\"emoji\" alt=\":+1:\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","post_number":4,"post_type":1,"posts_count":12,"updated_at":"2022-12-01T01:02:58.586Z","reply_count":2,"reply_to_post_number":3,"quote_count":1,"incoming_link_count":128,"reads":75,"readers_count":74,"score":725.0,"yours":false,"topic_id":247273,"topic_slug":"go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only","display_username":"","primary_group_name":null,"flair_name":"plugin_authors","flair_url":"plug","flair_bg_color":"dddddd","flair_color":"111111","flair_group_id":48,"badges_granted":[],"version":1,"can_edit":false,"can_delete":false,"can_recover":false,"can_see_hidden_post":false,"can_wiki":false,"link_counts":[{"url":"https://forum.monerochan.news/","internal":false,"reflection":false,"title":"monerochan.news forum","clicks":12},{"url":"https://monerochan.news","internal":false,"reflection":false,"title":"Monerochan.News","clicks":9},{"url":"https://meta.discourse.org/t/size-of-onebox-site-icons-is-changed/231898/6","internal":true,"reflection":true,"title":"Size of onebox site icons is changed","clicks":0}],"read":true,"user_title":"Plugin Author","title_is_group":false,"reply_to_user":{"id":35474,"username":"Canapin","name":"Coin-coin le Canapin","avatar_template":"/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/{size}/119591_2.png"},"bookmarked":false,"raw":"https://monerochan.news \ncurrenty uses a strapi headless CMS backend  + nextjs frontend hosted on vercel.\n\nIt also has a discourse forum attached to it:\nhttps://forum.monerochan.news/\nI am also thinking about ditching the strapi backend completely and just using discourse as a headless CMS. \n\n[quote=\"Stephen, post:2, topic:247273, username:Stephen\"]\nA $5 VPS configured correctly can serve millions of read-only page views pretty effortlessly, that’s where WordPress excels. The same traffic would need considerably more resources were it served via Discourse. WordPress is still an incredibly effective tool if you care about such stuff. Configured correctly it’s also pretty excellent for curating the content you serve up to search engines.\n[/quote]\nso this problem could be solved by hosting the \"landing page\" / most visited pages in a headless fashion on something like vercel. \nEven 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. \n\nThe 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.\n\nMaybe we should build a plugin for that :thinking: \n\n@Canapin  thanks for the topic! Great read :grinning: :+1:","actions_summary":[{"id":2,"count":4}],"moderator":false,"admin":false,"staff":false,"user_id":66606,"hidden":false,"trust_level":2,"deleted_at":null,"user_deleted":false,"edit_reason":null,"can_view_edit_history":true,"wiki":false,"post_url":"/t/go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only/247273/4","locale":"en","is_localized":false,"language":"en","activity_pub_enabled":false,"boosts":[],"can_boost":false,"event":null,"customer_flair_customer":null,"direct_reply_count":2,"reactions":[{"id":"heart","type":"emoji","count":4}],"current_user_reaction":null,"reaction_users_count":4,"current_user_used_main_reaction":false,"can_accept_answer":false,"can_unaccept_answer":false,"accepted_answer":false,"topic_accepted_answer":null},{"id":1203393,"name":"Stephen","username":"Stephen","avatar_template":"/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/{size}/95011_2.png","created_at":"2022-12-01T01:56:29.731Z","cooked":"\u003caside class=\"quote no-group\" data-username=\"spirobel\" data-post=\"4\" data-topic=\"247273\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"title\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quote-controls\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" src=\"https://d3bpeqsaub0i6y.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/spirobel/48/170908_2.png\" class=\"avatar\"\u003e spirobel:\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eso this problem could be solved by hosting the “landing page” / most visited pages in a headless fashion on something like vercel.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c/aside\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat assumes it’s only the front page which is serving semi-static content. In my above example the site has over 10k posts and pages.\u003c/p\u003e","post_number":5,"post_type":1,"posts_count":12,"updated_at":"2022-12-01T01:56:29.731Z","reply_count":1,"reply_to_post_number":4,"quote_count":1,"incoming_link_count":0,"reads":63,"readers_count":62,"score":32.6,"yours":false,"topic_id":247273,"topic_slug":"go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only","display_username":"Stephen","primary_group_name":null,"flair_name":"support-experts","flair_url":"https://d11a6trkgmumsb.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/2/e250ec403580530d19e6a9ed42d0d525a51a9dbe.svg","flair_bg_color":"FFFFFF","flair_color":"","flair_group_id":142,"badges_granted":[],"version":1,"can_edit":false,"can_delete":false,"can_recover":false,"can_see_hidden_post":false,"can_wiki":false,"read":true,"user_title":"Leader","title_is_group":false,"bookmarked":false,"raw":"[quote=\"spirobel, post:4, topic:247273\"]\nso this problem could be solved by hosting the “landing page” / most visited pages in a headless fashion on something like vercel.\n[/quote]\n\nThat assumes it's only the front page which is serving semi-static content. In my above example the site has over 10k posts and pages.","actions_summary":[{"id":2,"count":1}],"moderator":false,"admin":false,"staff":false,"user_id":13042,"hidden":false,"trust_level":4,"deleted_at":null,"user_deleted":false,"edit_reason":null,"can_view_edit_history":true,"wiki":false,"post_url":"/t/go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only/247273/5","locale":"en","is_localized":false,"language":"en","activity_pub_enabled":false,"boosts":[],"can_boost":false,"event":null,"customer_flair_customer":null,"direct_reply_count":1,"reactions":[{"id":"heart","type":"emoji","count":1}],"current_user_reaction":null,"reaction_users_count":1,"current_user_used_main_reaction":false,"can_accept_answer":false,"can_unaccept_answer":false,"accepted_answer":false,"topic_accepted_answer":null},{"id":1203432,"name":"","username":"spirobel","avatar_template":"/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/spirobel/{size}/170908_2.png","created_at":"2022-12-01T05:25:22.200Z","cooked":"\u003cpre data-code-wrap=\"javascript\"\u003e\u003ccode class=\"lang-javascript\"\u003eexport const getStaticProps: GetStaticProps = async ({params}) =\u0026gt; {\n  // Run API calls in parallel\n  const id = params?.id\n\n  if (!id) {\n    return {\n      redirect: {\n        destination: '/',\n        permanent: false,\n        // statusCode: 301\n      },\n    }\n  }\n  const qs = require('qs');\n  const query = qs.stringify({\n    populate: '*', \n  }, {\n    encodeValuesOnly: true, // prettify URL\n  });\n  const article = await fetchAPI(\"/api/articles/\" + params.id + \"?\"+ query)\n  if (!article.data) {\n    return {\n      redirect: {\n        destination: '/',\n        permanent: false,\n        // statusCode: 301\n      },\n    }\n  }\n\n  return {\n    props: { article },\n    revalidate: 1,\n  }\n}\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI use this code in the nextjs frontend to fetch the articles. So it will cache the article for 1 second and then revalidate. So the discourse instance would only get one 1 request per second if we used this method.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is imaginable to do this not just for a special category that is managed by a special group of users of authors and editors.\u003cbr\u003e\nIt could be done for all content. The strapi backend of monerochan.news also provides markdown (just like discourse). So we could use the exact same code to fetch the post data ( just attach .json to the normal topic url) and display it.\u003cbr\u003e\nObviously the interactive features of discourse would be missing in this case. But we could just put a button there which says something like: comment! and this will redirect to the discourse page. Nextjs pages also load super quickly and are SEO friendly.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003caside class=\"quote no-group\" data-username=\"Stephen\" data-post=\"5\" data-topic=\"247273\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"title\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quote-controls\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" src=\"https://d3bpeqsaub0i6y.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/48/95011_2.png\" class=\"avatar\"\u003e Stephen:\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat assumes it’s only the front page which is serving semi-static content. In my above example the site has over 10k posts and pages.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c/aside\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eso I guess there are two situations: 1. A news site with a special category that gets curated by authors and editors. 2. A normal discourse forum with user generated content.\u003cbr\u003e\nThere could also be a mixture of the two cases.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn both cases building a headless frontend could have a lot of benefits.\u003c/p\u003e","post_number":6,"post_type":1,"posts_count":12,"updated_at":"2022-12-01T05:25:22.200Z","reply_count":0,"reply_to_post_number":5,"quote_count":1,"incoming_link_count":0,"reads":63,"readers_count":62,"score":27.6,"yours":false,"topic_id":247273,"topic_slug":"go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only","display_username":"","primary_group_name":null,"flair_name":"plugin_authors","flair_url":"plug","flair_bg_color":"dddddd","flair_color":"111111","flair_group_id":48,"badges_granted":[],"version":1,"can_edit":false,"can_delete":false,"can_recover":false,"can_see_hidden_post":false,"can_wiki":false,"read":true,"user_title":"Plugin Author","title_is_group":false,"bookmarked":false,"raw":"``` javascript\nexport const getStaticProps: GetStaticProps = async ({params}) =\u003e {\n  // Run API calls in parallel\n  const id = params?.id\n\n  if (!id) {\n    return {\n      redirect: {\n        destination: '/',\n        permanent: false,\n        // statusCode: 301\n      },\n    }\n  }\n  const qs = require('qs');\n  const query = qs.stringify({\n    populate: '*', \n  }, {\n    encodeValuesOnly: true, // prettify URL\n  });\n  const article = await fetchAPI(\"/api/articles/\" + params.id + \"?\"+ query)\n  if (!article.data) {\n    return {\n      redirect: {\n        destination: '/',\n        permanent: false,\n        // statusCode: 301\n      },\n    }\n  }\n\n  return {\n    props: { article },\n    revalidate: 1,\n  }\n}\n```\nI use this code in the nextjs frontend to fetch the articles. So it will cache the article for 1 second and then revalidate. So the discourse instance would only get one 1 request per second if we used this method.\n\nIt is imaginable to do this not just for a special category that is managed by a special group of users of authors and editors.\nIt could be done for all content. The strapi backend of monerochan.news also provides markdown (just like discourse). So we could use the exact same code to fetch the post data ( just attach .json to the normal topic url) and display it.\nObviously the interactive features of discourse would be missing in this case. But we could just put a button there which says something like: comment! and this will redirect to the discourse page. Nextjs pages also load super quickly and are SEO friendly.\n\n[quote=\"Stephen, post:5, topic:247273, username:Stephen\"]\nThat assumes it’s only the front page which is serving semi-static content. In my above example the site has over 10k posts and pages.\n[/quote]\nso I guess there are two situations: 1. A news site with a special category that gets curated by authors and editors. 2. A normal discourse forum with user generated content.\nThere could also be a mixture of the two cases.\n\nIn both cases building a headless frontend could have a lot of benefits.","actions_summary":[{"id":2,"count":1}],"moderator":false,"admin":false,"staff":false,"user_id":66606,"hidden":false,"trust_level":2,"deleted_at":null,"user_deleted":false,"edit_reason":null,"can_view_edit_history":true,"wiki":false,"post_url":"/t/go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only/247273/6","locale":"en","is_localized":false,"language":"en","activity_pub_enabled":false,"boosts":[],"can_boost":false,"event":null,"customer_flair_customer":null,"direct_reply_count":0,"reactions":[{"id":"heart","type":"emoji","count":1}],"current_user_reaction":null,"reaction_users_count":1,"current_user_used_main_reaction":false,"can_accept_answer":false,"can_unaccept_answer":false,"accepted_answer":false,"topic_accepted_answer":null},{"id":1203668,"name":"Angus McLeod","username":"angus","avatar_template":"/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/{size}/341715_2.png","created_at":"2022-12-01T15:12:44.492Z","cooked":"\u003cp\u003eIf you have trouble doing any of the above using the News Plugin, Landing Pages Plugin, Events Plugin for any of the above you can always just let me know. I’d be happy to help you.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRegarding the events plugin, you should reach out because we’re currently looking for more use cases to implement for our soon to be released v2. Fill out this wizard:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003caside class=\"onebox allowlistedgeneric\" data-onebox-src=\"https://coop.pavilion.tech/w/discourse-events-integration-early-access\"\u003e\n  \u003cheader class=\"source\"\u003e\n      \u003cimg src=\"https://d11a6trkgmumsb.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/3/83e6465ed9635d478fed6d297535eb7d3963f75e.png\" class=\"site-icon\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\"\u003e\n\n      \u003ca href=\"https://coop.pavilion.tech/w/discourse-events-integration-early-access\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ecoop.pavilion.tech\u003c/a\u003e\n  \u003c/header\u003e\n\n  \u003carticle class=\"onebox-body\"\u003e\n    \n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://coop.pavilion.tech/w/discourse-events-integration-early-access\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eCoöperative\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eA community for the coöperative that runs Pavilion\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n  \u003c/article\u003e\n\n  \u003cdiv class=\"onebox-metadata\"\u003e\n    \n    \n  \u003c/div\u003e\n\n  \u003cdiv style=\"clear: both\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/aside\u003e\n","post_number":7,"post_type":1,"posts_count":12,"updated_at":"2022-12-01T15:12:44.492Z","reply_count":1,"reply_to_post_number":null,"quote_count":0,"incoming_link_count":0,"reads":51,"readers_count":50,"score":60.2,"yours":false,"topic_id":247273,"topic_slug":"go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only","display_username":"Angus McLeod","primary_group_name":null,"flair_name":"support-experts","flair_url":"https://d11a6trkgmumsb.cloudfront.net/original/3X/e/2/e250ec403580530d19e6a9ed42d0d525a51a9dbe.svg","flair_bg_color":"FFFFFF","flair_color":"","flair_group_id":142,"badges_granted":[],"version":1,"can_edit":false,"can_delete":false,"can_recover":false,"can_see_hidden_post":false,"can_wiki":false,"link_counts":[{"url":"https://coop.pavilion.tech/w/discourse-events-integration-early-access","internal":false,"reflection":false,"title":"Coöperative","clicks":7}],"read":true,"user_title":"Leader","title_is_group":false,"bookmarked":false,"raw":"If you have trouble doing any of the above using the News Plugin, Landing Pages Plugin, Events Plugin for any of the above you can always just let me know. I’d be happy to help you.\n\nRegarding the events plugin, you should reach out because we’re currently looking for more use cases to implement for our soon to be released v2. Fill out this wizard:\n\nhttps://coop.pavilion.tech/w/discourse-events-integration-early-access","actions_summary":[{"id":2,"count":3}],"moderator":false,"admin":false,"staff":false,"user_id":13378,"hidden":false,"trust_level":4,"deleted_at":null,"user_deleted":false,"edit_reason":null,"can_view_edit_history":true,"wiki":false,"post_url":"/t/go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only/247273/7","locale":"en","is_localized":false,"language":"en","activity_pub_enabled":false,"boosts":[],"can_boost":false,"event":null,"customer_flair_customer":null,"direct_reply_count":0,"reactions":[{"id":"heart","type":"emoji","count":3}],"current_user_reaction":null,"reaction_users_count":3,"current_user_used_main_reaction":false,"can_accept_answer":false,"can_unaccept_answer":false,"accepted_answer":false,"topic_accepted_answer":null},{"id":1208502,"name":"Coin-coin le Canapin","username":"Canapin","avatar_template":"/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/{size}/119591_2.png","created_at":"2022-12-11T23:17:40.953Z","cooked":"\u003caside class=\"quote no-group\" data-username=\"spirobel\" data-post=\"4\" data-topic=\"247273\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"title\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quote-controls\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" src=\"https://d3bpeqsaub0i6y.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/spirobel/48/170908_2.png\" class=\"avatar\"\u003e spirobel:\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am also thinking about ditching the strapi backend completely and just using discourse as a headless CMS.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c/aside\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an interesting idea if I understand it well. Basically, you’d keep your forum as it is, and additionally have a homemade website in which the content would come from the forum’s data through Discourse’s API. Is that right?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca class=\"mention\" href=\"/u/stephen\"\u003e@Stephen\u003c/a\u003e, WordPress has indeed fair points.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWP loads very quickly especially if you’re using a cache system, whereas Discourse needs to load the entire app, which always takes a while when you open it.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy site \u003ca href=\"https://monocycle.info\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\"\u003ehttps://monocycle.info\u003c/a\u003e loads fast and navigating from page to page is almost instant.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe idea of removing WordPress is for several reasons that I listed, but I forgot to add that I’d like to make the forum more visible, and more obvious. I want people to see that there’s an active community as soon as they land on the site.\u003cbr\u003e\nRegistering and posting on Discourse is an enjoyable and painless experience both on desktop and mobile.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI could keep WP for the homepage only (or not much more), and move most content to Discourse’s topics/published pages.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003caside class=\"quote no-group\" data-username=\"angus\" data-post=\"7\" data-topic=\"247273\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"title\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quote-controls\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" src=\"https://d3bpeqsaub0i6y.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/48/341715_2.png\" class=\"avatar\"\u003e Angus McLeod:\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRegarding the events plugin, you should reach out because we’re currently looking for more use cases to implement for our soon to be released v2. Fill out this wizard:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c/aside\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNice! I need to have another look at your plugin before filling out your wizard so I know exactly what features it provides and how it works overall. \u003cimg src=\"https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/+1.png?v=12\" title=\":+1:\" class=\"emoji\" alt=\":+1:\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","post_number":8,"post_type":1,"posts_count":12,"updated_at":"2022-12-11T23:19:34.890Z","reply_count":2,"reply_to_post_number":4,"quote_count":2,"incoming_link_count":4,"reads":50,"readers_count":49,"score":55.0,"yours":false,"topic_id":247273,"topic_slug":"go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only","display_username":"Coin-coin le Canapin","primary_group_name":null,"flair_name":null,"flair_url":null,"flair_bg_color":null,"flair_color":null,"flair_group_id":null,"badges_granted":[],"version":1,"can_edit":false,"can_delete":false,"can_recover":false,"can_see_hidden_post":false,"can_wiki":false,"link_counts":[{"url":"https://monocycle.info","internal":false,"reflection":false,"title":"Monocycle.info - Le site de référence du monocycle francophone","clicks":4}],"read":true,"user_title":"Solution Institution","title_is_group":false,"bookmarked":false,"raw":"[quote=\"spirobel, post:4, topic:247273\"]\nI am also thinking about ditching the strapi backend completely and just using discourse as a headless CMS.\n[/quote]\n\nThis is an interesting idea if I understand it well. Basically, you'd keep your forum as it is, and additionally have a homemade website in which the content would come from the forum's data through Discourse's API. Is that right?\n\n@Stephen, WordPress has indeed fair points.\n\nWP loads very quickly especially if you're using a cache system, whereas Discourse needs to load the entire app, which always takes a while when you open it.\n \nMy site https://monocycle.info loads fast and navigating from page to page is almost instant.\n\nThe idea of removing WordPress is for several reasons that I listed, but I forgot to add that I'd like to make the forum more visible, and more obvious. I want people to see that there's an active community as soon as they land on the site.\nRegistering and posting on Discourse is an enjoyable and painless experience both on desktop and mobile.\n\nI could keep WP for the homepage only (or not much more), and move most content to Discourse's topics/published pages.\n\n[quote=\"Angus McLeod, post:7, topic:247273, username:angus\"]\nRegarding the events plugin, you should reach out because we’re currently looking for more use cases to implement for our soon to be released v2. Fill out this wizard:\n[/quote]\n\nNice! I need to have another look at your plugin before filling out your wizard so I know exactly what features it provides and how it works overall. :+1:","actions_summary":[{"id":2,"count":1}],"moderator":false,"admin":false,"staff":false,"user_id":35474,"hidden":false,"trust_level":3,"deleted_at":null,"user_deleted":false,"edit_reason":null,"can_view_edit_history":true,"wiki":false,"post_url":"/t/go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only/247273/8","locale":"en","is_localized":false,"language":"en","activity_pub_enabled":false,"boosts":[],"can_boost":false,"event":null,"customer_flair_customer":null,"direct_reply_count":2,"reactions":[{"id":"heart","type":"emoji","count":1}],"current_user_reaction":null,"reaction_users_count":1,"current_user_used_main_reaction":false,"can_accept_answer":false,"can_unaccept_answer":false,"accepted_answer":false,"topic_accepted_answer":null},{"id":1208503,"name":"Stephen","username":"Stephen","avatar_template":"/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/{size}/95011_2.png","created_at":"2022-12-11T23:19:10.281Z","cooked":"\u003cp\u003eWhat about bringing more community content on to the wordpress site? 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Raise visibility that way.","actions_summary":[{"id":2,"count":1}],"moderator":false,"admin":false,"staff":false,"user_id":13042,"hidden":false,"trust_level":4,"deleted_at":null,"user_deleted":false,"edit_reason":null,"can_view_edit_history":true,"wiki":false,"post_url":"/t/go-from-a-wordpress-discourse-structure-to-a-discourse-site-only/247273/9","locale":"en","is_localized":false,"language":"en","activity_pub_enabled":false,"boosts":[],"can_boost":false,"event":null,"customer_flair_customer":null,"direct_reply_count":1,"reactions":[{"id":"heart","type":"emoji","count":1}],"current_user_reaction":null,"reaction_users_count":1,"current_user_used_main_reaction":false,"can_accept_answer":false,"can_unaccept_answer":false,"accepted_answer":false,"topic_accepted_answer":null},{"id":1208505,"name":"Coin-coin le Canapin","username":"Canapin","avatar_template":"/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/{size}/119591_2.png","created_at":"2022-12-11T23:22:39.967Z","cooked":"\u003cp\u003eAny more specific idea? 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