First, I would love to see something like this pulled into the official WP-Discourse plugin. Some of what follows (API integration, etc.) is already part of its functionality.
I’m not a developer either, and wish I could help more. The following are some thoughts on it so far. Not trying to be critical, just thinking out loud and relaying experiences.
###Notes
- It would be extra interesting if this got a Discourse API key so WP could access private/group forums. I was thinking it would be cool to have pages a certain set of users could edit via wiki, and that would automatically populate the main site. There may be cases where discussion would be better restricted to logged-in or group users.
- Button 1 in the image has no http/https protocol on the link. Not sure if that’s from my WP settings or the plugin.
- Not sure where the theme is picking up button 2. It happens that I can and intend to turn the sharing section off on this page anyway, but it is a curiosity.
- Displaying the Discourse title and the WP title can be redundant. The ability to toggle this in the WP post edit window would be helpful. Less elegant, but hiding via CSS should more or less suffice.
- Displaying the author (in this example,
discourse) might be a candidate for toggling as well. As with the title, CSS is probably an okay workaround.
