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) Contributing Guides on how to contribute to the Discourse open-source project. (Index) Site Management Documentation covering the configuration, moderation, and ongoing management of your Discourse community - useful for site owners, administrators, and moderators. (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
Changing a user's email address when they can't access their account Site Management how-to , users	1	10431	November 6, 2025
Understanding groups and category permissions Site Management groups , explanation	1	26159	June 12, 2024
Install plugins on a self-hosted site Self-Hosting how-to	40	254988	November 5, 2025
Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI Site Management ai , content-localization	45	1412	November 4, 2025
Creating and managing calendars Using Discourse calendar-and-event , how-to	14	3084	September 16, 2025
How to investigate bot traffic using Google Analytics Site Management moderation	0	24	November 4, 2025
Understanding Discourse for new users Using Discourse reference	2	195499	September 18, 2025
Using Transformers to customize client-side values and behavior Developer Guides	1	390	November 3, 2025
Customizing specific system email templates Site Management email , how-to	8	12137	November 3, 2025
Deleting multiple users in bulk Site Management how-to , users	1	214	November 3, 2025
Using topic templates for categories Site Management reference , content	5	17821	November 2, 2025
Available settings for global rate limits and throttling Self-Hosting reference	4	22594	November 2, 2025
Creating and managing events Using Discourse calendar-and-event , how-to	3	37786	November 2, 2025
How Discourse ID works Site Management discourse-id	17	851	November 1, 2025
Set up Telegram integration using the discourse-chat-integration plugin Integrations chat-integration , how-to	92	18201	October 31, 2025
Creating a banner to display at the top of your site Site Management how-to , customization	10	14445	October 30, 2025
Understanding pageviews and the site traffic report Site Management dashboard-reports , explanation	1	966	December 12, 2024
Backup discourse from the command line Self-Hosting how-to , backups	6	11626	October 28, 2025
Administrative Bulk Operations Self-Hosting configuring , reference	7	13685	August 19, 2024
Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads Self-Hosting configuring , reference , how-to , cdn	260	43072	October 28, 2025
Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript Integrations embedding , how-to	123	299577	October 27, 2025
Discourse AI - Helper Site Management ai , ai-helper , how-to	16	3280	January 5, 2025
Setting up spam detection in your community Site Management ai , how-to , moderation , automation	11	1707	January 30, 2025
Discourse AI - Large Language Model (LLM) settings page Site Management ai , how-to	19	2282	September 6, 2025
Setting up NSFW detection in your community Site Management moderation , automation , how-to , ai	0	692	October 10, 2024
Setting up toxicity detection in your community Site Management automation , ai , how-to , moderation	0	833	August 7, 2024
Discourse AI - Spam detection Site Management moderation , spam , how-to , ai	22	2326	September 25, 2025
Set up file and image uploads to S3 Self-Hosting configuring , how-to	35	119118	October 25, 2025
Discourse AI - Sentiment Site Management ai , content , ai-sentiment , how-to	14	5245	October 24, 2025
Theme modifiers: A brief introduction Developer Guides theme-guides	20	4346	October 24, 2025