What is Discourse Blog built with?

[kuba-orlik]

The Discourse Blog seems to be built with Discourse, but it doesn’t look like a forum - notably, there are “Notable Replies” below certain posts and the layout is much different - what tools were used to build the blog?

[vinothkannans]

I think it is WordPress. You can include discourse as comments provider for any blogging system.

Check this

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 co…

[kuba-orlik]

I do know that - but the Discourse Blog does not include any iframes in the Responses section, nor does it make any XHR requests - so I guess that’s not what it’s using

[gerhard]

It’s WordPress and probably using the wp-discourse plugin.

[vinothkannans]

Maybe Discourse API

They have their own customized WordPress theme