Ghost integration with Discourse forum question

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Hi all,

I am trying to integrate my existing Discourse forum with my new Ghost setup. I noticed the integration instructions are very outdated so I thought I’d ask my questions here.

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The way I understood the above image from the Ghost integration instructions was that Ghost posts that are posted in /blog/ will be taken and posted in the Discourse category highlighted on the right side of the image (in this case News - Blog). This is exactly the way I would like this to work.

However, when I now try to create a post in Ghost and set the url to be /blog/post-title-1/ it automatically changes it to /blog-post-title-1/ which results in Discourse not getting the post and Ghost showing an embed error when it tries to locate comments.

Is there a way to make the /blog/post-title folder structure to work in Ghost?

The other thing is, I am planning to have multi embed in Discourse, I started with blog, but I am planning to have 2 or 3 more that I would like to setup in a similar fashion.

My Ghost install details.

Lastly, besides Discourse looking different and having updated some of the fields in their embed section I think the biggest miss in the instructions is the Ghost setting of commenting, which is by default set to “nobody can post comments” which I think results it nothing showing up if you follow the instructions to the letter. At least for me, once I changed this, things started to show up.

Thank you for your help and kind regards,
Pieces.

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This topic can be marked “solved”, I got this to work using tags instead of a whitelisted path.

I do think the instructions for this integration need an overhaul to include new/updated settings on both the Ghost (updating post.hbs, how to create a post using path or tags, ensuring commenting is turned on) and the Discourse side (inserting a host for embedding, updating app.yml).