Documentation

Site Management Documentation covering the configuration, moderation, and ongoing management of your Discourse community - useful for site owners, administrators, and moderators. (Index) Contributing Guides on how to contribute to the Discourse open-source project. (Index) Hosted Customers Documentation and guides for people who run Discourse-hosted sites (Index) Using Discourse Topics showing how to Discourse by reading and writing content, and navigating Discourse sites. (Index) Integrations Documentation about connecting Discourse with other platforms and services. (Index) Self-Hosting Documentation and guides for people who self-host their Discourse sites. (Index) Migrating to Discourse Guides and advice on how to migrate your forum to Discourse. (Index) Developer Guides Documentation about extending Discourse with plugins, themes, and theme components, working with the core code, and using the Discourse API. (Index)

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI Site Management ai , content-localization	3	116	July 15, 2025
PDF support in Discourse AI Site Management how-to , ai	16	398	July 15, 2025
Discourse AI - AI triage using Persona Site Management how-to , ai , automation	9	340	July 15, 2025
Configure Google login for Discourse Integrations how-to , social-auth , sso	6	234935	July 15, 2025
Moderation flags Site Management how-to , configuring	1	481	July 11, 2025
Configure Discord Login for Discourse Integrations sso , how-to	3	47160	July 14, 2025
Understanding closed, unlisted, and archived topics Site Management explanation	5	30806	July 13, 2025
Creating and configuring custom user fields Site Management how-to , users	9	15358	July 14, 2025
Contributing to Discourse development Contributing reference	5	62478	July 13, 2025
Watched Words Reference Guide Site Management reference , watched-words , content	7	4486	July 11, 2025
Setup DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso) Integrations sso , configuring , discourseconnect , how-to	33	446124	July 10, 2025
Forum Researcher AI Persona guide Site Management ai-bot , how-to , ai	11	315	July 10, 2025
Discourse SEO overview (sitemap / robots.txt ) Site Management seo , explanation	1	1680	June 7, 2025
Set up file and image uploads to S3 Self-Hosting configuring , how-to	33	118372	July 9, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	32	79687	July 8, 2025
Add settings to your Discourse theme Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	6	16468	July 8, 2025
Log back in as admin after locking yourself out with read-only mode or an invalid SSO configuration Site Management how-to , read-only	4	4711	July 8, 2025
Calculating "Top" topics in Discourse Using Discourse reference , interface	2	2001	July 8, 2025
Developing Discourse using a Dev Container Developer Guides	6	6811	July 8, 2025
Customizing the topic list Developer Guides	0	472	February 4, 2025
Write end-to-end system specs for the Discourse user interface Developer Guides	0	307	September 11, 2024
Discourse AI - AI triage Site Management how-to , ai , automation	49	4227	July 7, 2025
Discourse AI - Embeddings Site Management ai , ai-search , related-topics	25	5622	July 7, 2025
Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript Integrations embedding , how-to	112	297822	July 7, 2025
What is a staff user on hosted Discourse? Hosted Customers explanation	0	4570	March 21, 2019
Posting code or preformatted text Using Discourse how-to	4	4818	July 3, 2025
Discourse AI - AI search Site Management ai-search , ai , how-to	9	2416	July 2, 2025
Discourse AI - Summarize Site Management ai , ai-summarize , how-to	42	6897	July 2, 2025
Adding users to groups through custom field automation Site Management groups , automation , how-to , user-custom-fields	17	1481	July 2, 2025
Configuring Activity Summary emails Site Management email , reference , activity-summary	6	22178	June 30, 2025
Printing a topic as a PDF Using Discourse how-to , interface	23	3644	June 30, 2025
House Ad Templates Site Management how-to , advertising	28	10279	June 27, 2025
Searching for content effectively Using Discourse search	9	2963	June 26, 2025
Repackaging a markdown-it extension as a Discourse plugin Developer Guides explanation , plugin-guides	1	2249	June 26, 2025
Pre-launch checklist for migrated Discourse communities Migrating to Discourse	0	121	March 14, 2025
Install Discourse on Windows for development Developer Guides dev-install , how-to	14	70232	June 22, 2025
Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development Developer Guides dev-install , how-to	84	189139	June 22, 2025
Install plugins on a self-hosted site Self-Hosting how-to	34	251014	June 21, 2025
Self-Hosting Sentiment and Emotion for DiscourseAI Self-Hosting ai-sentiment , ai	5	437	June 21, 2025
Change the domain name or rename your Discourse Self-Hosting how-to , domains	7	202076	June 19, 2025
Setup HubSpot chat Integration Integrations how-to	10	4090	June 17, 2025
Linking to a heading within a post or topic Using Discourse how-to	5	24689	June 16, 2025
Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install Self-Hosting configuring , email , how-to	28	176442	June 15, 2025
Discourse AI - Web Artifacts Site Management ai	4	402	June 13, 2025
Customizing your site with existing theme components Site Management reference , customization	2	1015	June 11, 2025
Including your site in Discourse Discover Site Management discourse-discover , how-to	10	485	June 11, 2025
Scheduling topics for future publication Site Management topic-timers , how-to	0	18422	April 10, 2017
Adding a table to your post using markdown Using Discourse tutorial	26	32353	June 9, 2025
Read Only Modes in Discourse Site Management read-only , explanation , how-to	8	1533	June 7, 2025
Customize Your Site Branding Site Management tutorial , customization	5	3689	June 6, 2025