Originally Posted by
Westech
After browsing around many sites that have both blogs and forums (including this one), I'm surprised at how little integration there is between the blog and the forum. It seems that tighter integration would be a great way to draw blog users into participating in the forum and vice versa.
The auto-created forum threads used on this site to notify of new blog posts are a great start, but why are the blog and forum comments kept separate? Why not have comments posted on the blog appear in the forum thread and comments posted to the forum thread appear in the blog comments? Or, why not ditch the blog comments altogether and just put a "Discuss this post" link at the bottom of each blog entry that links to the forum thread?
I'm not picking on WP in particular, just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on why most sites keep their blogs and forums so separated from each other.
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