# 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:** [February 11, 2014, 5:59pm 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:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror) #### Post date: [February 11, 2014, 6:06pm 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/)** > > 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): > > 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 … --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-discourse-as-a-commenting-system/12627)._