Documentation

Self-Hosting Documentation and guides for people who self-host their Discourse sites. (Index) Contributing Guides on how to contribute to the Discourse open-source project. (Index) Developer Guides Documentation about extending Discourse with plugins, themes, and theme components, working with the core code, and using the Discourse API. (Index) Migrating to Discourse Guides and advice on how to migrate your forum to Discourse. (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) Site Management Documentation covering the configuration, moderation, and ongoing management of your Discourse community - useful for site owners, administrators, and moderators. (Index)

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Discourse AI - Embeddings Site Management ai , ai-search , related-topics	22	7392	September 25, 2026
Add localizable strings to themes and theme components Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	22	5856	August 9, 2024
Use a glossary with Discourse AI translations Site Management embedding , ai , content-localization	0	75	September 15, 2026
Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads Self-Hosting cdn , configuring , how-to , reference	267	51812	September 15, 2026
Developer's guide to Markdown extensions Developer Guides markdown , reference , code	1	13754	June 1, 2026
Theme Developer Tutorial: 6. Using the JS API Developer Guides	3	1157	April 14, 2025
Add settings to your Discourse theme Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	6	17579	July 8, 2025
Using the DModal API to render Modal windows (aka popups/dialogs) in Discourse Developer Guides code	0	2265	July 3, 2023
The UI kit of shared Discourse components, helpers, and modifiers Developer Guides	0	132	August 31, 2026
Install Discourse on Windows for development Developer Guides dev-install , how-to	16	74990	April 22, 2026
Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development Developer Guides dev-install , how-to	83	202504	June 22, 2025
Install Discourse on macOS for development Developer Guides dev-install , how-to	102	117096	April 24, 2026
Available settings within the category edit page Site Management reference	1	1635	May 7, 2026
Using Transformers to customize client-side values and behavior Developer Guides	2	777	September 5, 2026
Enabling native LLMs.txt support in Discourse Site Management	3	566	September 2, 2026
Discourse toolkit to render forms Developer Guides	28	1879	December 23, 2025
JavaScript type hinting & validation (typescript) Developer Guides	0	246	February 4, 2026
AppEvents Triggers Reference Developer Guides	0	566	November 26, 2024
Write end-to-end system specs for the Discourse user interface Developer Guides	3	750	August 28, 2025
Using Plugin Outlet Connectors from a Theme or Plugin Developer Guides how-to , code	12	19192	October 14, 2024
Discourse AI - Spam detection Site Management moderation , how-to , ai , spam	31	5589	August 28, 2026
What is CDCK/MoM? Hosted Customers ai	0	270	July 16, 2026
Creating and managing calendars Using Discourse events , how-to	17	4669	August 14, 2026
User API keys specification Integrations rest-api , reference	69	37839	September 22, 2025
Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI Site Management ai , content-localization	54	5569	August 7, 2026
Set up Gemini API Keys for Discourse AI Integrations how-to , ai	2	1070	August 6, 2026
Switching between Discourse release channels / versions Self-Hosting how-to	12	13779	August 3, 2026
Install the Discourse Theme CLI console app to help you build themes Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	16	32438	July 30, 2026
Discourse AI - Ask Discourse Site Management how-to , ai , ask-discourse	10	1013	July 25, 2026
Customize text in Discourse Site Management configuring , how-to , customization	12	24754	July 25, 2026