How is this plugin different from wp-discourse? They literally have the same introductory description, which is very confusing.
This WordPress plugin allows you to use Discourse as a community engine for your WordPress blog.
I guess it has something to do with how wp-discourse requires API access, whereas wp-discourse-embed is “lower commitment” with no API key needed, working more like the “paste-and-you’re-done” type of embedding you get from the likes of Disqus. Sound about right?
Would definitely appreciate more clarification though. What are the different use cases? What’s the overlap (do they have the same strategy for styling comments?).
If this could work like Reddit embeds, that’d be super cool. As in:
- I write a blog post
- I announce the blog post on a DIscourse forum like Meta
- I embed my Discourse topic into my blogpost, effectively using Discourse for comments without hosting it myself.