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Community Office Hours · Embedding

Bring the
conversation onto
your own site.

Discourse now loads the full discussion experience right inside your website or blog — so visitors reply, like, and quote without ever leaving the page. Join us live to see how.

Session details FREE
When
Thursday, June 25 · 12:00–1:00 PM ET
Hosted by
Danielle & the Discourse community team
Where
Live on Zoom — 60 min, with open Q&A
// Today's thread

What we'll work through together.

01
Opening post · How it works

How embedded discussions work in Discourse.

With full app mode enabled, embedded discussions load the complete Discourse experience right inside your page — instead of a static list of comments. We'll walk through what that means under the hood.

02
Reply · Where it fits

Use cases for blogs, product updates, and knowledge content.

From a personal blog to a product changelog to a docs site — we'll look at where an embedded conversation earns its place, and the kinds of content it works best alongside.

03
Reply · In practice

How teams are connecting websites and communities.

Real examples of teams wiring their site and their forum into one continuous conversation — so a reader on the website and a member in the community are talking in the same thread.

Q
Open floor · Your questions

Open discussion + Q&A.

Then we hand the mic to you. Bring your setup questions — theming, single sign-on, moderation, performance — and ask them live, in the very thread embedded at the bottom of this page.

// The shift

From a comment box to a real room.

Classic embed

A preview of the discussion

  • Readers see posts, but jump elsewhere to take part
  • No inline replies, likes, or quoting on your page
  • The conversation happens somewhere your reader isn't
  • Rich content like math falls back to plain text
Full app mode

The discussion itself, in place

  • Reply, like, quote, and react without leaving the page
  • A floating reply button stays in reach as readers scroll
  • The same topic lives on your site and in your forum
  • Full rendering — including math — inside the embed
// Live walkthrough

Three moves to a talking site.

STEP 01

Flip the switch

In Admin → Advanced → Embedding, turn on the full app mode toggle. That sets embed_full_app for your site.

STEP 02

Drop in the snippet

Paste the embed script onto your page. Full app mode adds fullApp: true and an embedHeight automatically.

STEP 03

Watch it come alive

The topic renders in place. New visitors get an account in a new tab; everyone else just starts talking.

// The demo is real

This isn't a screenshot. It's the forum.

Everything below this line is a live Discourse instance running in full app mode — embedded straight into this page. Reply here and your post lands in the forum. Ask your Office Hours questions right in the thread.

start typing below
discourse-on-a-pi5.falco.dev — embedded on this page