Linking from main site to Discourse - intermediate page
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I noticed that the main DailyWTF site has each blog post linking to a intermediate comments page (still on the main site), and if you then want to comment you are sent (with another button) to the what.thedailywtf.com subdomain that hosts the Discourse system.
I'm thinking of setting up a similar system from a Wordpress site where blog comments are done on a separately hosted Discourse system (subdomain like you have).
Question: Is that intermediate page required?
(In my setup I do not want that, people should immediately go from the blog post to the discourse topic)I'm not sure if you use Wordpress, but that may be irrelevant to the question.
If you use WP, what's the connecting plugin?Thanks
Jan
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Paging @apapadimoulis...
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Not Wordpress:
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Question: Is that intermediate page required?
not really but it may be a good idea for older articles that have long discussions.
the intermediate page would be able to show "important" posts from the discussion (with links directly to the post) as a sort of summary.
much like the old featured comments system.
how you pick the important comments... that is left as an exercise for the implementer
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Not Wordpress:
More specifically:
https://github.com/tdwtf/WtfWebApp/blob/master/TheDailyWtf/Common/Discourse/DiscourseHelper.cs#L55It uses the Discourse API to create a topic in the Articles category, and gets the created topic ID in return (which is then used to fetch posts from Discourse and build the “Continue this discussion” link).
Not sure if it’s possible to do this with WordPress, though.
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I assume you are aware of the WP plugin for discourse:
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Thanks for the page; but yes, all the code is in that repo. I think we did the intermediate page to create less of a “UI shock” when going from main site to discourse site.
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less of a “UI shock” when going from main site to discourse site.
Should have gone somewhere else other than Discourse then!