Newbie here. Not sure why I would need a Wordpress blogging engine if I’ve got Discourse. Can someone please help me understand the benefits of what Wordpress would give you? It seems to me like Discourse alone would suffice as a standalone blogging platform, but I think I might be missing someth…

If you want your community members to also write blog posts. Ideally that post should be listed on their profile page. Can you do that with Wordpress integration?

If the WordPress user account has the Discourse user specified then the post stub will be in their name, and show as one of their posts on the Discourse instance.

Newbie as well here. We’re in the process of setting up Discourse but we also have a Wordpress.org blog. Do you know how we can set up the url so it reads "www.blog.(our discourse name).com?

What’s the goal for doing this?

Hi Stephen, our goal is to allow the articles on our blog to show up in other news feeds, as well as introduce others to our discourse forum.

Sure, I was more referring to the use of ‘www.blog’ - your blog or publishing front-end can sit at: www.sitename.com and your discourse instance at: community.sitename.com community is just a example, you obviously use pretty much anything to denote your Discourse install. There’s no need t…

Hi Stephen, thank you for your quick replies, I appreciate it. Yes, Jay set up Discourse for us. Our url is www.hsp.world. We’re thinking of setting our blog url to be www.blog.hsp.world, right now we have it sitting at http://hspblog.modelsmith.com/ (we’re just tweaking the site and it should be re…

Hi Hawk, thank you for suggesting, yes we thought that may be a good way to go, www.blog.hsp.world - we’re not sure how to go about creating or re-directing the url though…

I’m actually suggesting www.blog.hsp.world What exactly are you getting stuck on?

Why use Wordpress Blog if I have Discourse?

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modius (Geoff Bowers) 3 Dicembre 2018, 3:06am 37

It may be a bit late, but you might find blogging on Discourse and embedding on your website a useful alternative:

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