WP Discourse Embed Plugin

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

@erlend_sh

How is this plugin different from wp-discourse?

The wp-discourse-embed plugin uses the Discourse Embed code. Here are the pros and cons as compared to wp-discourse plugin:

Pros:

• Requires minimal configuration
• Comments HTML is auto created, so styling is not required.
• Can enable Discourse comments only on posts published after specified date.

Cons:

• Not much customizable, hence less features.
• Comments HTML can not be styled as per the theme.

wp-discourse-embed is basically a WordPress plugin for:

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 …

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@erlend_sh

I embed my Discourse topic into my blogpost, effectively using Discourse for comments without hosting it myself.

This is not possible because the blog hostname should be present in Admin > Customize > Embedding.