Integrate Forum Software To Wagtail -- Discourse?

[John Morris]

Wagtail friends,

We have built a successful Wagtail-based site and wish to add a forum to the site. We have chosen Discourse. Here's a question, based on the assumption that Discourse is quite well known (it has been referenced here in another context):

What is the best way to integrate a Discourse forum instance into Wagtail?

1. IDENTITY MANAGEMENT -- Discourse will be used to perform identity management functions for the site -- there will be no site membership functionality that is not Discourse-driven.

2. FORUM PAGES -- There will be a full discourse page via "forum.domainname.com", with some stylist commonality to the host site. Forum pages will include the usual "list of topics" and "individual topic streams".

3.  CONTENT LINKS -- From front page "content teasers" or "full page content pages" there will be forum question links. These would be say an icon referencing the associated forum topic.

A Good Answer: Could be very simple, something like "there's this API and you just need to make these calls" or whatever the answer is -- and to know that that is possible would be helpful. Or maybe "there are two ways to do it -- and they are different like this . . . "

My role is only to specific what we'd need -- our technical support will actually implement. But of course, if we ask for the right thing, we'll likely get a better answer. My understand right now is "an iFrame is not the right thing". However, we haven't been able to find any guidance on integrating a forum into a Wagtail site -- for ANY forum, not just Discourse. Which is odd, because lots of sites need forums!

Super thanks for any advice!

Go Wagtail!

John

[Hazho Human]

it is better to come to wagtail-cms slack channels https://join.slack.com/t/wagtailcms/shared_invite/zt-atpojq8h-5IJ7oKzEVKSxATHyqA7P4A 

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[John Morris]

Thanks for your kind response. In fact have engaged there and already received some good feedback.

Go Wagtail!

[ka...@kgoetz.id.au]

Hi John,

I see you've (probably?) already got an answer but thought I'd respond here in public anyway.

Pydiscourse (https://github.com/bennylope/pydiscourse ) provides you with a wrapper to perform all the jobs you mentioned in your initial email. While I haven't used it within a wagtail environment I have integrated it with another Django based application (Tendenci, https://www.tendenci.com/) and can attest to it being an overall successful job.

I should note our usage was much simpler than yours is planned to be.

Disclaimer: I'm a casual contributor to the projects mentioned above.

thanks,

Karl.