# Is it possible to use Discourse as a "commenting system"?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-discourse-as-a-commenting-system/12627
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [11 Febrero, 2014 17:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-discourse-as-a-commenting-system/12627 "2014-02-11T17:59:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@pablox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pablox)
#### Post date: [11 Febrero, 2014 17:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-discourse-as-a-commenting-system/12627/1 "2014-02-11T17:59:45Z")
I actually searched the forums and found a couple of threads referring to this, but more of them are older than 6 months ago, and since discourse it’s still in development, I thought there could be different now.
When I saw discourse, the first thing I thought was “finally, I can forget about disqus and friends”, while I understand that this tool was made thinking in replacing forums (or complement them), a lot of good discussion happens in form of blog comments too. That being said, it seems to me that Discourse it looks also suited for that job.
Is there any plan on this or some approach that already people are implementing?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [11 Febrero, 2014 18:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-discourse-as-a-commenting-system/12627/2 "2014-02-11T18:06:32Z")
WordPress plugin
> **[WP Discourse](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-discourse/)**
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> This plugin allows you to use Discourse as a community engine for your WordPress website. The plugin is not a substitute for Disqus type commenting sy …
The WP plugin can be viewed in action on
- [http://boingboing.net](http://boingboing.net)
- [http://www.howtogeek.com](http://www.howtogeek.com)
- [http://blog.discourse.org](http://blog.discourse.org)
Embedding Discourse in Static Sites
> [@Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-discourse-comments-via-javascript/31963):
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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 …
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### Author:  [@pablox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pablox)
#### Post date: [20 Febrero, 2014 19:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-discourse-as-a-commenting-system/12627/5 "2014-02-20T19:57:32Z")
Thannks for the info! I’ll check it throughly later 😉
Sorry the delay, I thought that I was going to be notified by email or something.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [4 Diciembre, 2025 11:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-discourse-as-a-commenting-system/12627/8 "2025-12-04T11:09:22Z")