# Is Discourse een volledige website of slechts een forum-add-in?

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**Created:** [1 mei 2025 om 23:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-a-full-website-or-just-a-forum-add-in/364453 "2025-05-01T23:24:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [1 mei 2025 om 23:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-a-full-website-or-just-a-forum-add-in/364453/1 "2025-05-01T23:24:00Z")

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Long story short, I am planning a website that would offer a discourse community and general tabs to provide information.

No matter how hard I search I cannot seem to figure out before starting a 14 day trial if the customization of discourse allows for what I’m looking for.

[Cartalk.com](http://Cartalk.com) is somewhat close to what I want as in a few tabs providing information along with a community or chat tab with discourse.

Is the only thing discourse is providing is the forum function under their “community” tab or the overall theme of that site to include the forum?

I want to make sure I’m not putting the carriage before the horse in terms of having a discourse before the rest of the website if there are no templates in which to build on.

Thanks for all the help.

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