Support

SSO For queries specifically about SSO (single sign-on) and login using third-party providers (Google, Facebook, GitHub etc). See the official documentation on DiscourseConnect SSO. WordPress Support for the official Discourse WordPress plugin at GitHub - discourse/wp-discourse: WordPress plugin that lets you use Discourse as the community engine for a WordPress blog Migration You want to migrate your community to Discourse? Awesome! This is the category where you can ask questions, get help, and document your Discourse migration journey. Self-hosting Getting self-hosted Discourse sites up and running, keeping them going, updating them, and any other general sysadmin maintenance.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters Self-hosting hosting This guide is intended for people who are not system administrators who just want to make Discourse work. This is a list of cloud hosting services that are believed to be reliable and easy enough for a novice to get up a…	121	30599	February 24, 2026
What is Bootstrap Mode Support bootstrap-mode	11	28950	January 24, 2021
How much is Discourse affected by a faster CPU? Self-hosting hosting	43	22182	December 24, 2019
Mailgun is $1/month per 1,000 emails sent (and first 1,000 are free) Self-hosting hosting	53	19339	November 24, 2024
New Digital Ocean pricing! (Spoiler: $5 for a 1GB droplet) Self-hosting hosting	21	21722	May 14, 2023
Self hosting for free (with caveats!) with Oracle Cloud Self-hosting hosting	106	17343	February 22, 2023
Self-hosted mail-receiver update following Let's Encrypt root certificate change Self-hosting mail-receiver , letsencrypt	12	2426	February 10, 2022
Can I host a Discourse forum for free? Self-hosting hosting , explanation	18	6330	May 14, 2023
Meta is moving to the Cloud :cloud_with_lightning: Self-hosting hosting	47	12190	February 25, 2021
AdSense Responsive Ads Support advertising	31	10547	August 5, 2020
Warning: "breadcrumbs issue" and "schema deprecated" Support	21	2606	February 27, 2020
Confused by "Approve" and "Reject" in the review queue Support	14	3403	December 9, 2020
Gamekult, un popular fórum de videojuegos, migró de vBulletin a Discourse. ¿Un fracaso? Migration	12	1831	March 23, 2025
Suppress category from latest topics gone Support	117	10386	February 29, 2020
Installing on Kubernetes Self-hosting unsupported-install	55	24897	February 6, 2026
Backwards compatibility with older browsers Support	48	3759	March 4, 2023
Hetzner launches a VPS service Self-hosting hosting	20	8691	August 19, 2019
freeCodeCamp.org Discourse is Collapsing from Spammer Scripts Self-hosting	16	5110	July 3, 2020
Migrated from XenForo to Discourse: Overview of the Migration Migration	12	478	December 7, 2025
Impact of Let's Encrypt changes in Discourse users on old Android versions Self-hosting hosting	10	1404	December 21, 2020
Completed Migration vB3 to Discourse including Legacy vB3 Thank You to Likes Migration vbulletin	11	2014	August 17, 2020
Create user automatically in Discourse when they sign up in Wordpress? WordPress	30	9830	June 21, 2018
Multiple Discourses, multiple containers, one server Self-hosting	10	10621	September 21, 2021
Report on using discourse_docker on a CoreOS image Self-hosting hosting	18	6445	June 11, 2016
GitHub logins using deprecated authentication API? Support	9	2400	February 12, 2020
Goodbye Sparkpost Self-hosting email	30	4191	January 21, 2023
Flarum to Discourse Migration Script Migration flarum	10	3066	February 21, 2024
Installing Discourse With Plesk Onyx (Ubuntu 14.04) Self-hosting unsupported-install	47	12632	October 10, 2019
Images are still too big -- how to compress further? Support	22	8157	June 4, 2024
Ansible-discourse: Install Discourse with Ansible (without Docker) Self-hosting unsupported-install , hosting	12	5083	August 2, 2016
Is it possible to display only one trust level badge on the user card? Support	10	2847	November 18, 2016
Modifying Privacy Policy to conform with EU law Support privacy	20	3470	January 10, 2024
Highly aggressive troll whackamole Support	55	6403	May 13, 2024
My journey into a massive posts rebake job Self-hosting	35	4315	July 10, 2024
Comparing hosting providers Self-hosting hosting	14	6443	January 4, 2024
Hello from Gitpod! (installing on google cloud + automated dev setup) Self-hosting	23	4250	June 9, 2020
Users profile image not showing (letter avatars) Support	10	6013	March 29, 2019
Need a how-to guide for using DigitalOcean Block Storage for image uploads Support	43	9487	June 7, 2018
Reset user password by Admin Support	10	13916	October 5, 2022
Install Discourse on Plesk(Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) Self-hosting unsupported-install	15	6367	July 27, 2023
When in a category, default to "none" rather than "all" subcategories Support	16	5812	March 26, 2025
Uploaded animated GIFs of 4MB or larger appear very small Support	18	14211	August 3, 2020
Babble: Admins can't see a group set to `group owner` only visibility Support	22	2204	October 29, 2019
2.6.0b2 upgrade VERY slow Self-hosting	34	2972	October 4, 2020
How our community is faring after migrating from vbulletin3 Migration	13	1301	April 23, 2023
Pictures don't upload well into tables because of the straight bar symbol Support	10	2449	January 7, 2022
Is anonymous posting possible? Support	21	9703	January 16, 2021
S3 image bandwidth costs are getting annoying Self-hosting hosting , s3	31	4191	October 23, 2025
Please help me to improve my forum design! Support	23	2388	February 1, 2022
Hetzner experiences Self-hosting hosting	27	12226	June 19, 2023