Replace bbPress/buddyPress with Discourse on a Wordpress site

[simon]

@Maël_Shanti

Basically I don’t want to simply transform the comments section into a Discourse section. Rather, I want the full Discourse community functionalities to be included directly within my WP site. People should be able to navigate from one to the other using a simple menu item, without changing the domain, and while remaining logged-in.

It is possible to integrate a Discourse site with WordPress with the WP Discourse plugin. For example, the WordPress site can publish posts to the Discourse site. You can also integrate authentication between the two sites so that users login to Discourse from WordPress using DiscourseConnect.

The main thing to be aware of is that WordPress and Discourse need to be hosted separately. They can’t exist on the same domain. A common approach is to serve Discourse from a subdomain of the WordPress site’s domain.

With DiscourseConnect enabled, you can link from WordPress to Discourse using the method outlined here: Create a DiscourseConnect login link.