# Wordpress + discourse showcase - I need inspiration ;)
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-showcase-i-need-inspiration/124166
**Category:** WordPress
**Created:** [28 juli 2019 om 07:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-showcase-i-need-inspiration/124166 "2019-07-28T07:17:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [28 juli 2019 om 07:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-showcase-i-need-inspiration/124166/1 "2019-07-28T07:17:32Z")
I need inspiration for further developing my site.
After I changed from joomla with jomsocial (a php mysql setup) to a pure forum site (like my early start in 2001) I think I mis some non-forum features - features I could get using wordpress.
Therefor I would like to see a showcase of forums using wordpress and discourse.
I found this:
> **[Monocycle.info](https://monocycle.info/)**
>
> Bienvenue sur monocycle.info. Actualités, conseils, infos pratiques, wiki, forum… Rejoignez la communauté monocycle !
Feel welcome to post your site so I could see what you came up with.
Im okay familiar with wordpress and even made a plugin years ago 😜
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### Author:  [@anon29908737](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon29908737)
#### Post date: [29 juli 2019 om 12:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-showcase-i-need-inspiration/124166/2 "2019-07-29T12:24:51Z")
I’m setting up my Wordpress+Discourse+LifterLMS and am interested in different page layout design ideas. Looking at the monocycle page, how did they get the Forums list on right hand side? Is there a widget for Discourse?
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### Author:  [@markwill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markwill)
#### Post date: [1 augustus 2019 om 15:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-showcase-i-need-inspiration/124166/3 "2019-08-01T15:43:53Z")
Coincidentally, I am in the same boat as Lea-Ann. I have an established site with LifterLMS-based courses and memberships via WooCommerce Subscriptions (as well as offering more traditional eCommerce too).
I have a closed Facebook group as one of my membership benefit but a reasonable percentage don’t use Facebook (my membership has a large number of older folks). I have been very interested in moving to a forum and away from the Facebook group, but it’s a change I want to assess and manage very carefully.
I have installed Discourse on a Vultr VPS yesterday, as a subdomain. I have installed the SSO plugin too.
A part of this will be making sure that there’s a consistent user experience. So now I am actively researching my Discourse design (currently looking at themes and theme components). Like the other two posters, I have a real desire to see alternative designs to spark some inspiration.
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### Author:  [@bts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bts)
#### Post date: [12 augustus 2019 om 21:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-showcase-i-need-inspiration/124166/5 "2019-08-12T21:43:09Z")
I have two WP + Discourse projects to share 🙂
# Cracking the Code
Guitar learning site, and member community, focused on helping players improve their technique. This has been my day job for several years, and after offering downloads + subscription on a third-party platform for a while in the past ~2 years we went all in with our own custom site integrating the lesson material and community forum.
Wordpress:
> **[Cracking the Code Homepage](https://troygrady.com/)**
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> Cracking the Code - Platform Page
Discourse:
> **[The Cracking the Code Forum](https://forum.troygrady.com/)**
>
> The Cracking the Code Forum is a place to talk guitar technique, explore the intersection of musical art and science, and learn from one another.
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# Antilibraries
Site where I curate and share the most fascinating books I find, and associated forum for talking about reading and libraries, trading book suggestions, and similar. I’ve been working on the general idea as a side project for a while, and just a few months ago launched a small forum to work more on connecting with a community of like-minded book nerds.
Wordpress:
> **[Antilibraries](https://www.antilibrari.es/)**
>
> Catalogs and catacombs of books unread.
Discourse:
> **[Antilibraries Athenaeum](https://athenaeum.antilibrari.es/)**
>
> A place for talking books, libraries, reading, and learning.
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [8 januari 2020 om 19:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-showcase-i-need-inspiration/124166/6 "2020-01-08T19:56:27Z")
Here’s a popular site that is posting from their WordPress blog to Discourse:
> **[Boing Boing BBS](https://bbs.boingboing.net/)**
>
> Boing Boing BBS, the forums of boingboing.net
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [8 januari 2020 om 20:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-showcase-i-need-inspiration/124166/7 "2020-01-08T20:25:17Z")
My site uses wordpress/discourse for articles and for comments on the blog
> **[Nature Photographers Network (NPN)](https://www.naturephotographers.network/)**
>
> A nature photography critique community built on thoughtful feedback, meaningful conversation, and helping photographers grow creatively. Free trial available.
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### Author:  [@AvidLearner](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AvidLearner)
#### Post date: [8 januari 2020 om 21:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-showcase-i-need-inspiration/124166/8 "2020-01-08T21:30:35Z")
> [@davidkingham](#):
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> My site uses wordpress/discourse for articles and for comments on the blog
Wow! Your site is amazing! What plugins are you using to integrate Discourse?
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [8 januari 2020 om 21:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-showcase-i-need-inspiration/124166/9 "2020-01-08T21:35:00Z")
I can share mine now:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-for-medical-students-a-wordpress-and-discourse-site-praise-and-showcase](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-for-medical-students-a-wordpress-and-discourse-site-praise-and-showcase)
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [9 januari 2020 om 21:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-showcase-i-need-inspiration/124166/10 "2020-01-09T21:01:36Z")
Hi, I didn’t notice that you linked my site 🙂
[https://monocycle.info/](https://monocycle.info/) is indeed linked to Discourse with a few custom things:
- The right sidebar shows the last created topics, through a custom (and badly coded) Wordpress plugin. The list is updated regularly with a CRON task.
- The [comments](https://monocycle.info/inscription-championnats-du-monde-de-monocycle/#comments) are sync between Wordpress and Discourse through a custom plugin that extends [WP-Discourse](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-discourse/). Logged in users can post comments either from Discourse or directly from the Wordpress article page.
@frold coincidentally, we use the same Wordpress theme 😄
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### Author:  [@haydenjames](https://meta.discourse.org/u/haydenjames)
#### Post date: [25 februari 2023 om 16:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-showcase-i-need-inspiration/124166/11 "2023-02-25T16:34:34Z")
I’m also using WordPress with the Discourse WP plugin. Forums are here:
> **[LinuxCommunity.io](https://linuxcommunity.io/)**
>
> Join our Linux forum for peer-to-peer support and open-source discussions, where Linux enthusiasts and sysadmins collaborate and learn.
Discourse has been a lifesaver because I was being held hostage by Disqus comments system which was also very slow to load.