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

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-a-full-website-or-just-a-forum-add-in/364453
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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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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [1 mei 2025 om 23:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-a-full-website-or-just-a-forum-add-in/364453/4 "2025-05-01T23:36:40Z")

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Wordpress has a plugin to interact with Discourse. [Plugin link](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-discourse)

You can also embed replies in your website from pages/topics on that site, like a blog.  
See:

> [@Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-discourse-comments-on-another-website-via-javascript/31963/1):
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> Discourse has the ability to embed the comments from a topic in a remote site using a Javascript API that creates an IFRAME. For an example of this in action, check out [Coding Horror’s blog](http://blog.codinghorror.com/welcome-to-the-internet-of-compromised-things/#discourse-comments). The blog is run via [Ghost](https://ghost.org/) but the comments are embedded from his [Discourse forum](http://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/welcome-to-the-internet-of-compromised-things/3550). One important thing to note with this setup is that users have to navigate to your forum to post replies. This is intentional, as we feel that the posting interface on a Discourse forum is currently much richer than what we …

Referring to the above guide, I have done that with Jekyll, and since it uses JavaScript, it can be used widely.

And somewhat the opposite:

> [@Embed a list of Discourse topics onto an external site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-a-list-of-discourse-topics-onto-an-external-site/293709/1):
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> bookmark This guide explains how to embed and display a list of Discourse topics on external websites using JavaScript, allowing you to showcase forum content such as discussions or announcements on blogs, websites, or external content platforms. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator Summary Embedding Discourse topics on external websites enables you to display topic lists from your Discourse forum directly on other sites. This integration helps drive traffic to your fo…

I hope that helps!

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