You could use WordPress, or some other platform, to create the blog pages. The blog part of the site would load faster and be easier to maintain than a plugin that customizes Discourse. Something like this would be fairly easy to do with the wp-discourse plugin. You could get the âRecent forum activityâ for the sidebar by making an API call to Discourse. The only downside I can see to doing it this way would be that you couldnât use the Discourse header on the blog part of the site.
Hey @simon thanks for the inspiration. I was also thinking about a wordpress installation but I didnât knew that there is a Plugin for Discourse. Maybe we will choose this option.
I contacted them directly and they are considering to share their work back to the community. There are a few business concerns they need to evaluate before they are ready to go for it, so letâs wait and see.
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they are considering to share their work back to the community
[/quote]That is great to hear! Any chance they mentioned how long before weâll have an answer?
Actually I think theyâre using their own plugin and/or forked version of Discourse. Pretty cool customization! Note that the pieces in the news stream on the front page are not topics. They have created their own route /news/{id}, with itâs own type of object, a âNewsâ object.
You can achieve a similar âmedia streamâ effect with Topic List Previews. However, note that Topic Previews are for topics. Also, if you want an sidebar like that youâll need to override a template.
You wonât be able to achieve the exact Elektronauts experience without some relatively substantive work on a new plugin. Or you could ask them to take a peek at their code