Hi, I have one site using Discourse in full forum mode. I’m looking at starting a new site with news and a forum and I’m wondering how hard it would be to just skip using Wordpress and try to make the site purely on Discourse. Does anyone know any sites doing this in a nicely design way? How wou…

I guess you could do something like this with Page Publishing ?

Another thing to keep in mind is that our theme system is very flexible, have a look at: https://forum.ludia.com/ Click on various categories and notice how everything transforms. A theme similar to the picture you described is probably feasible but would require significant amounts of work and p…

Jeff, Sam and 4ong, thanks for the feedback. Given Sam’s feedback it seems like the most cost effective approach is still to use both Wordpress and Discourse to achieve what I want. One question I had is regarding a longer term solution - it might eventually make sense to go all-Discourse. My key…

I echo what others have said about the news plugin. A great example of it used in the wild (to my knowledge) is Elektronauts

[image] BCHK: I do like the News Plugin and would like to try it. @sam would it be possible to install the news plugin into my existing Discourse-hosted forum so I can test it out, and potentially incorporate it fully into my site. I’d love to be able to pull the “News” category from my forum on…

Sam - that News plugin looks almost exactly like I could work with. I would only want a much longer “recent forum activity” column on the right - and I’m hoping that would be usable. I don’t need the design features like you pointed out in the Ludia forum. I just want a simple way to get the news…

[image] BCHK: Do you still think it would cost a lot to implement? How would the responsiveness/speed of this Discourse-only site, compare to a lightweight wordpress frontend? I’m very concerned about having a responsive site for mobile access. @BCHK Please see the below. [image] justin: …

Using Discourse as a News Blog and Forum - Any Known Good Examples?

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4ong (Anatol Myshkin) July 30, 2020, 8:23am 4

You can try News Plugin as a base of what you are looking for.

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