# 可以创建带图片和视频的新闻网站吗 **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [2019年二月24日 01:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928 "2019-02-24T01:53:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/shiva/32/120719_2.png) [@shiva](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shiva)\ **Post date:** [2019年二月24日 01:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/1 "2019-02-24T01:53:43Z")
Hello, I am thinking of using Discourse to create a sports site since ESPN and many others have completely banned comments from their news stories, so it’s like a 1 way propaganda. I source my sports news from twitter, IG pics and videos and facebook posts. I would like to create a news site where each news item would be a discourse topic post under the corresponding category of news, and the users would be only able to comment on the topic (i.e. the news post) Also want to customize the home page and category listing pagest to show thumbnail of the topic (news post). Example below. Hope you get the idea. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/2/4294fbd528f7b58a3389c29656e28c6af8656de5.jpeg) 1. Does anyone know of any existing discourse installations that are used like a news site / news blog ? 2. What would be involved in customizing the default or some other theme to add thumbnails to topic posts and display them as shown above? 3. Also, is it possible to restrict users from creating topic posts (since I, the editor will be creating them) by category? In other words, most categories will be comment only for users. Except a couple like “Help wanted” or “For sale” where users would also be able to create topic posts. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![omarfilip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/omarfilip/32/208019_2.png) [@omarfilip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omarfilip)\ **Post date:** [2019年二月24日 02:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/2 "2019-02-24T02:01:14Z")
You can do that with a Wordpress site and Discourse as the community/commenting platform. There are many topics here on meta describing the WP–Discourse setups, but start here: > [@Install and configure the WP Discourse Wordpress plugin for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-plugin-installation-and-setup/50752): > > To get started with the [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) Plugin, go through each of these topics in order and watch the videos at the top of the topic. [Install the plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-the-wp-discourse-plugin/223489/1)[Connect to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connect-wp-discourse-to-discourse/223490/1)[Set up Publishing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-and-publishing-posts-to-discourse/223492/1)[Set up Commenting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-and-commenting/223493/1)[Set up DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-and-discourseconnect/223494/1) The two main plugin features, Publishing and [DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true) don’t have to be used together. You can just set up Publishing (and Commenting), and not use [DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true), or just set up [DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true), or set up both. There’s a short description of each featu… ---
**Author:** ![shiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/shiva/32/120719_2.png) [@shiva](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shiva)\ **Post date:** [2019年二月24日 03:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/3 "2019-02-24T03:10:17Z")
Thanks! I checked out the plugin on [wordpress.org](http://wordpress.org) So it looks like the plugin lets you cross-post wordpress posts into a discourse site, for discussion and comments etc, is that right? Example: On this story on [boingboing.net](http://boingboing.net) =\> [This mini-printer makes memos anywhere with zero ink refills - Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net/2019/02/20/this-mini-printer-makes-memos.html) if you click “34 comments” it goes to the discourse site at [bbs.boingboing.net](http://bbs.boingboing.net) to [This mini-printer makes memos anywhere with zero ink refills - boing - Boing Boing BBS](https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/this-mini-printer-makes-memos-anywhere-with-zero-ink-refills/139318) Which has “Read entire post” and if you click that, it shows entire post that’s on [boingboing.net](http://boingboing.net) wordpress blog. What if I don’t want to cross post, i.e. only have the discourse site as the main news site? Can I achieve that using this plugin, and somehow keep the wordpress site out of view of the search engines and stuff (i.e. use wordpress as the discourse posting engine) ? Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\ **Post date:** [2019年二月24日 04:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/4 "2019-02-24T04:30:11Z")
The problem and challenge here is that WordPress is excellent at serving reasonably static pages out to tens of thousands of users while using moderate server resources. Discourse on the other hand will require significantly more in the way of server capacity to serve the same purpose. Add in the time it will take to customise Discourse to behave like a publishing front-end, it’s just not the right tool for the job. You’re going to be much better off serving your content from a content management system, fronted by a cache, and using Discourse for the community element. ---
**Author:** ![omarfilip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/omarfilip/32/208019_2.png) [@omarfilip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omarfilip)\ **Post date:** [2019年二月24日 17:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/5 "2019-02-24T17:53:41Z")
The [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin has a bunch of options - you can display comments from Discourse on the WP site instead of just the link, or show the full post in Discourse instead of the truncated version… ---
**Author:** ![shiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/shiva/32/120719_2.png) [@shiva](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shiva)\ **Post date:** [2019年二月26日 18:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/6 "2019-02-26T18:09:59Z")
Thank you! I am currently using Wordpress and am trying to move out of it to a static site (using something like Hugo). Reason being Wordpress gets hacked no matter what I do to secure it and I end up with a bunch of via-agra ads on my site and google flags my site as a spam site. So in this context, is it possible to use a static site generator for the news content ( pics, videos etc) and link the comments / discussion to discourse? Has this been done for static sites ? ---
**Author:** ![shiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/shiva/32/120719_2.png) [@shiva](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shiva)\ **Post date:** [2019年二月26日 18:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/7 "2019-02-26T18:11:37Z")
> [@omarfilip](#): > > you can display comments from Discourse on the WP site instead of just the link, **or show the full post in Discourse** instead of the truncated version… This sounds interesting. If I can show full posts on the discourse site, then is it possible to use Wordpress purely for content creation and posting, i.e. don’t expose the wordpress hosted domain also to the world and search engine? By that, I mean that 1. I’ll have wordpress installed at, say **[newssitecurationadmin.com](http://newssitecurationadmin.com)** and a `robots.txt` at root that blocks all indexing 2. Use this wordpress install to publish full posts with pics and video to discourse, hosted at , say, **[mynewssite.com](http://mynewssite.com)** 3. **[mynewssite.com](http://mynewssite.com)** is what gets indexed and marketed. Will something like this work? Otherwise, won’t we get flagged on the discourse site for duplicate content by search crawlers like google, bing if we have both a wordpress instance at **[newssitecurationadmin.com](http://newssitecurationadmin.com)** and the same content on discourse at **[mynewssite.com](http://mynewssite.com)**? ---
**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\ **Post date:** [2019年二月26日 18:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/8 "2019-02-26T18:11:55Z")
WordPress isn’t easily hacked, particulalrly since they added automatic security updates. WordPress plugins on the other hand are a real problem. Minimise your use of third party plugins and put your WordPress site behind Cloudflare. ---
**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\ **Post date:** [2019年二月26日 20:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/9 "2019-02-26T20:07:52Z")
Your screenshot looks very like my _tiles_ theme on [Topic List Previews (legacy)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews/101646), a Discourse plugin I help maintain. I’m about to release an enhancement that allows you to increase the size of featured items to take up 2 columns instead of 1. The standard view is 3 columns. ---
**Author:** ![shiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/shiva/32/120719_2.png) [@shiva](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shiva)\ **Post date:** [2019年二月26日 23:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/10 "2019-02-26T23:38:57Z")
> [@merefield](#): > > Your screenshot looks very like my _tiles_ theme on [Topic List Previews](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews/101646), a Discourse plugin I help maintain Hi I checked it out, and yes, this is more or less what I am looking for. I think the homepage for my site would look _ **really close** _ to your top bar (in your plugin example, screen pasted below) . [![https://discourse.angusmcleod.com.au/c/tlp/l/top](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/2/32230a76af737818c0d7ea790c13f0bd1cbc6c7f.jpeg)](https://discourse.angusmcleod.com.au/c/tlp/l/top) And the individual news item listing would have the reddit-style feel. Is the Plugin ready for prime-time? I’ll gladly [support your development with donations](https://discourse.angusmcleod.com.au/donate) if it’s close to being finished without any major bugs. ~~I don’t see any link on your sample site for doing the donations, it only shows the amount. LMK.~~ EDIT: How are the thumbnail images set? As a custom field / upload in the EDIT Topic page? Is there a way to NOT SHOW the thumbnail image in the individual post listing? I saw in your samples that the thumbnail is the 1st image inside the post. ---
**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\ **Post date:** [2019年二月26日 23:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/11 "2019-02-26T23:53:54Z")
Thank you. It’s in ‘Production’. There are a few known issues but nothing major. [Donations are very much appreciated](https://discourse.angusmcleod.com.au/donate) (Select Topic List Previews). If you have an account on Angus’ site you automatically get displayed as a backer. Thanks for your consideration and let me know if you find any additional bugs. I’ll make sure [Github issues are up-to-date.](https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-topic-previews/issues) ---
**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\ **Post date:** [2019年二月27日 07:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/12 "2019-02-27T07:10:14Z")
> [@shiva](#): > > I saw in your samples that the thumbnail is the 1st image inside the post. That’s correct. First image unless there’s just a onebox in which case the main target thumbnail image is selected. This is up to onebox code, but is usually determined by the source site tag in: `` There’s no way to select which image manually in TLP, apart from support for a default image. Richer behaviour is an enhancement and has been requested by the community. First change would be to allow one to select an image. I have a couple of sponsors already for that effort. More welcome. ---
**Author:** ![shiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/shiva/32/120719_2.png) [@shiva](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shiva)\ **Post date:** [2019年二月28日 18:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/13 "2019-02-28T18:12:44Z")
> [@merefield](#): > > First image unless there’s just a onebox What’s a OneBox ? Also, I tried a test post on your plugin forum, with `style="display: none;"` in the 1st topic image, to see if it gets hidden inside topic, but still makes it to the topic previews thumbnail. My account is on hold as your site says that new users can’t post more than 1 image. All I was doing was testing the plugin lol ---
**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\ **Post date:** [2019年二月28日 18:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/14 "2019-02-28T18:18:06Z")
> [@shiva](#): > > All I was doing was testing the plugin lol Ah good issue to raise @angus might want to relax that limit > [@shiva](#): > > What’s a OneBox ? It’s the standard out of the box Discourse preview layout for internal and external links. Similar to the preview Facebook generates (but focuses less on highlighting the images). So instead of having just an ugly URL the user is presented with a nicely formatted preview/excerpt box which gives them a better idea of what the link links to. Unlike Facebook and because Discourse is a forum not a microblogging system there’s a Topic view (where posts live) and a Topic List view. Oneboxes live in posts. The plugin presents thumbnails on the Topic List. ---
**Author:** ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)\ **Post date:** [2020年三月30日 09:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/17 "2020-03-30T09:52:08Z")
> [@News Plugin newspaper](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971): > > The News Plugin adds a new “News” route to your forum. The latest topics in a category(s) (or from an RSS feed) are displayed in a large, news-like format, with an optional sidebar with a topic list. It adds a link to the News route in the header bar. It is inspired by the [Elektronauts news feed](https://www.elektronauts.com/news). [page_facing_up Get the code](https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-news)[bug Report a bug](https://discourse.pluginmanager.org/w/bug-report)Lost? Not sure how to install a plugin? [Follow the steps here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157). Make sure you check out all the site se… @shiva 这有用吗？ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [2024年四月13日 05:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/18 "2024-04-13T05:27:47Z")
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**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\ **Post date:** [2024年四月13日 19:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-create-a-news-site-with-pics-and-videos/109928/19 "2024-04-13T19:32:04Z")