Documentation

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) 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) 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
Understanding post flags in Discourse Using Discourse moderation , reference	35	34355	January 17, 2026
Setup Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Self-Hosting how-to	8	1851	January 13, 2026
Enable hidden setting to include S3 uploads in the backups Self-Hosting backups , how-to	10	1550	January 12, 2026
Filtering topic lists in Discourse Using Discourse reference , topic-filter , search	16	702	January 12, 2026
Linking user titles to groups Site Management how-to , groups	5	3318	April 22, 2025
Create, download, and restore a backup of your Discourse database Self-Hosting how-to , backups	22	23290	January 9, 2026
Configure Discourse to use a separate PostgreSQL server Self-Hosting how-to	50	28434	January 8, 2026
House Ad Templates Site Management how-to , advertising	31	10595	January 8, 2026
Creating a banner to display at the top of your site Site Management how-to , customization	11	15036	January 7, 2026
Creating and managing calendars Using Discourse calendar-and-event , how-to	14	3432	September 16, 2025
Making your forum more accessible Site Management accessibility , how-to	1	1124	January 6, 2026
Install Discourse for development using Docker Developer Guides dev-install , docker , how-to	218	84736	January 6, 2026
Set up structured tagging with tag groups and category tag restrictions Site Management tutorial , tags	0	26062	August 5, 2016
Watched Words Reference Guide Site Management reference , watched-words , content	9	5065	October 22, 2025
Find a translation key with verbose localization Site Management how-to , customization	1	2975	January 3, 2026
Merging user accounts Site Management users , how-to , merge-user	2	2444	January 2, 2026
Setting up NSFW detection in your community Site Management moderation , automation , how-to , ai	2	835	January 1, 2026
Configuring and troubleshooting oneboxes Site Management onebox , how-to , content	1	2413	July 17, 2024
Customizing the Discourse outer email template Site Management email , how-to	13	5666	May 19, 2022
Making custom CSS changes on your site Site Management css , how-to	3	9398	December 30, 2025
Using the JS API Developer Guides plugin-api , explanation , code	17	11587	November 25, 2025
Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI Site Management ai , content-localization	49	2214	December 27, 2025
Discourse toolkit to render forms Developer Guides	28	1135	December 23, 2025
Composer Popup Messages Guide Site Management composer , explanation	7	624	December 20, 2025
Using service objects in Discourse Developer Guides	0	454	October 30, 2024
Adding preview screenshots to Discourse themes Developer Guides	2	267	July 16, 2025
Configure Facebook login for Discourse Integrations sso , how-to , social-auth	31	331443	December 17, 2025
Understanding groups and category permissions Site Management groups , explanation	1	26512	June 12, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 2 - Connect to a plugin outlet Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	38	29656	November 23, 2025
Change icons globally Developer Guides how-to	26	9450	October 5, 2025