Wordpress integration with mini forums

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

@dantheman

Firstly, my website has several pages relating to a specific topics and the aim would be to have several “mini” forums on a separate page related to this. Is this possible? And secondly is this type integration with wordpress even possible?

This is not a lot to go by. Can’t you just link to your website? Short answer is: Sure, you could match specific sections to their own category or tag in Discourse, and even pull in content from this category/tag by using RSS feeds or the API.

@dantheman

And finally is it possible to host wordpress and discourse on the same dedicated server?

Yes. There’s a guide for it here:

Running other websites on the same machine as Discourse

If you want to run other websites on the same machine as Discourse, you need to set up an extra NGINX or HAProxy proxy in front of the Docker container. NOTE: This is for advanced admins This guide assumes you already have Discourse working - if you don’t, it may be hard to tell whether or not the configuration is working. You cannot use ./discourse-setup to set up Discourse if another server is using port 80 or 443. You will need to copy and edit samples/standalone.yml with your favorite tex…