Using Discourse as a comment system

[Openmind (Torsten Därr)]

Hi, I’ve read in another thread that there was a project developing a Discourse comments plugin. Since the thread was closed a few weeks ago I’m not sure what the status of the plugin is. Currently I’m using the FB comments plugin on my site and Discourse as the forum and I want to merge both. Many thanks, Torsten

[Falco]

That is a core feature, no plugin needed.

Embedding Discourse Comments via Javascript

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. The blog is run via Ghost but the comments are embedded from his Discourse forum. 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 …

[nylen (James Nylen)]

There is also WP Discourse – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org which appears to be more like linking the two sites together.

I haven’t tried it yet, but I think this will be a good solution for us. We want to use our blog for content and SEO, but our main avenue of community participation is Discourse.