Documentation

Developer Guides Documentation about extending Discourse with plugins, themes, and theme components, working with the core code, and using the Discourse API. (Index) Using Discourse Topics showing how to Discourse by reading and writing content, and navigating Discourse sites. (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) Hosted Customers Documentation and guides for people who run Discourse-hosted sites (Index) Migrating to Discourse Guides and advice on how to migrate your forum to Discourse. (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
Pinning plugin and theme versions for older Discourse installs (d-compat branches) Developer Guides	6	1424	July 17, 2026
Objects type for theme setting Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	32	2237	April 13, 2026
Add settings to your Discourse theme Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	6	17287	July 8, 2025
What is CDCK/MoM? Hosted Customers ai	0	83	July 16, 2026
Edit a user preference for everyone or a subset of users Self-Hosting how-to	0	14025	February 12, 2015
Create and share a color scheme Developer Guides how-to	1	6395	August 1, 2025
Create and share a font theme component Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	4	6048	August 19, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 6 - Add acceptance tests Developer Guides testing , plugin-guides , tutorial	32	17599	June 2, 2022
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 5 - Add an admin interface Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	46	26697	September 24, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 4 - Setup git Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	10	13174	January 30, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	32	83334	July 8, 2025
JavaScript type hinting & validation (typescript) Developer Guides	0	159	February 4, 2026
Auto-provisioning user accounts when SSO is enabled Integrations sso , how-to	0	167	April 3, 2026
How Discourse ID works Site Management discourse-id	23	2579	July 13, 2026
Deleting multiple users in bulk Site Management how-to , users	2	390	July 13, 2026
Beginner's guide to using Discourse Themes Site Management reference , customization	12	84742	July 9, 2026
Theme Developer Tutorial: 6. Using the JS API Developer Guides	3	1027	April 14, 2025
Using Plugin Outlet Connectors from a Theme or Plugin Developer Guides how-to , code	12	18819	October 14, 2024
Including your site in Discourse Discover Site Management how-to , discourse-discover	17	1020	July 7, 2026
Create a Salesforce lead via Zapier when a user signs up on Discourse Integrations how-to , zapier	0	2433	March 9, 2019
Automate sending Discourse invite emails with Zapier Integrations how-to , tasks , zapier	37	9658	May 3, 2024
Use the Zapier Discourse Zap Templates Integrations how-to , zapier	8	5221	July 8, 2022
Self-Hosting an OpenSource LLM for DiscourseAI Self-Hosting ai	12	3931	July 6, 2026
Set up Gemini API Keys for Discourse AI Integrations how-to , ai	1	830	July 4, 2026
Handling the "chain of trust" of the end user's real IP Self-Hosting docker , how-to	7	207	July 2, 2026
Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads Self-Hosting cdn , configuring , how-to , reference	265	48924	July 2, 2026
Run other websites on the same machine as Discourse Self-Hosting how-to , advanced-setup	66	138314	June 30, 2026
Understanding closed, unlisted, and archived topics Site Management explanation	3	32150	July 13, 2025
Serve Discourse from a subfolder (path prefix) instead of a subdomain Self-Hosting docker , subfolder , how-to , advanced-setup	30	43735	April 14, 2026
Theme Developer Tutorial: 7. Wrapping up Developer Guides	0	306	March 18, 2025