by scossar 4.6 (8 reviews)

WP Discourse

Name: WP Discourse
Rating: 4.6 (8 reviews)
Author: scossar

This plugin allows you to use Discourse as a community engine for your WordPress website. The plugin is not a substitute for Disqus type commenting sy …

WP Discourse ranks #6,640 among WordPress.org plugins with 1,000+ active installations, is #196 of 2,881 in the Discussion & Community category, a 4.6/5 rating from 8 reviews, and was last updated Aug 13, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v2.6.4 Current Version v2.6.4

Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 13 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 7 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#196 of 2,881 in Discussion & Community Top 10% by installs Downloads -9.1% this week

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#6,640

-9 this week

Active Installs

1K+

-17.7%

KW Avg Position

0.3 worse

Downloads

124.8K

+16 today

Support Resolved

— No change

Rating

92%

Review 4.6 out of 5

4.6 (8 reviews)

Next Milestone 2K

Total Progress 23.4%

1K+ 2K+

1,507

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Growth Needed

8,000,000

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Reviews & Ratings

4.6

8 reviews

Overall 92%

7 (88%)

0 (0%)

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Support Threads Overview

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

2 known vulnerabilities on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 1 month ago

Oct 31, 2025

WP Discourse [wp-discourse] < 2.6.0

CVE-2025-11983 · Fixed in v2.6.0
May 10, 2024

WP Discourse [wp-discourse] < 2.5.2

CVE-2024-35168 · Fixed in v2.5.2

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.6.4
Last Updated: Aug 13, 2026
Requires WP: 5.1+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 5.6 or higher
Author: scossar

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6
Reviews: 8
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who run a Discourse community forum. It connects the two platforms so blog comments, author accounts, and login authentication can be shared between WordPress and Discourse.

Creates forum topic per post
Associates WP authors with Discourse accounts
Embeds forum replies in posts
Filters replies by post score
Filters replies by trust level
DiscourseConnect login provider
Discourse authentication for WordPress

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WP Discourse

All of the plugin's functionality except for using Discourse as the DiscourseConnect provider for WordPress works with multisite configurations.

No this plugin acts as an interface between Discourse and WordPress. For it to work you will need to first set up Discourse forum. You can install Discourse for yourself following either of these guides: Install Discourse in Under 30 Minutes

No.

The plugin uses the Discourse API, so your forum and blog can be hosted separately and the integration will still work. In fact, we strongly recommend hosting the two applications separately, since their hosting requirements are very different.

Yes, the html templates used for publishing posts on Discourse and for displaying comments on WordPress can be customized in your theme. This is done by hooking into the filters that are applied to each template. For more details on template customization, take a look at the Template Customization topic on the Discourse Meta forum.

Not automatically. You need to apply custom HTML&CSS to Discourse in order to match the theme of your WordPress site. To create a coherent top menu, see our tutorial on how to make a Custom nav header