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
Admin guide to tags in Discourse Site Management reference , tags	10	29764	November 9, 2025
Accessing a user’s admin page Site Management users , how-to	12	6066	April 8, 2025
Changing a user's email address when they can't access their account Site Management how-to , users	3	10460	November 7, 2025
Understanding groups and category permissions Site Management groups , explanation	1	26171	June 12, 2024
Install plugins on a self-hosted site Self-Hosting how-to	40	255065	November 5, 2025
Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI Site Management ai , content-localization	45	1439	November 4, 2025
Creating and managing calendars Using Discourse calendar-and-event , how-to	14	3100	September 16, 2025
How to investigate bot traffic using Google Analytics Site Management moderation	0	32	November 4, 2025
Understanding Discourse for new users Using Discourse reference	2	195584	September 18, 2025
Using Transformers to customize client-side values and behavior Developer Guides	1	394	November 3, 2025
Customizing specific system email templates Site Management email , how-to	8	12150	November 3, 2025
Deleting multiple users in bulk Site Management how-to , users	1	216	November 3, 2025
Using topic templates for categories Site Management reference , content	5	17828	November 2, 2025
Available settings for global rate limits and throttling Self-Hosting reference	4	22603	November 2, 2025
Creating and managing events Using Discourse calendar-and-event , how-to	3	37805	November 2, 2025
How Discourse ID works Site Management discourse-id	17	870	November 1, 2025
Set up Telegram integration using the discourse-chat-integration plugin Integrations chat-integration , how-to	92	18210	October 31, 2025
Creating a banner to display at the top of your site Site Management how-to , customization	10	14465	October 30, 2025
Understanding pageviews and the site traffic report Site Management dashboard-reports , explanation	1	973	December 12, 2024
Backup discourse from the command line Self-Hosting how-to , backups	6	11635	October 28, 2025
Administrative Bulk Operations Self-Hosting configuring , reference	7	13690	August 19, 2024
Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads Self-Hosting configuring , reference , how-to , cdn	260	43137	October 28, 2025
Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript Integrations embedding , how-to	123	299612	October 27, 2025
Discourse AI - Helper Site Management ai , ai-helper , how-to	16	3291	January 5, 2025
Setting up spam detection in your community Site Management ai , how-to , moderation , automation	11	1712	January 30, 2025
Discourse AI - Large Language Model (LLM) settings page Site Management ai , how-to	19	2305	September 6, 2025
Setting up NSFW detection in your community Site Management moderation , automation , how-to , ai	0	697	October 10, 2024
Setting up toxicity detection in your community Site Management automation , ai , how-to , moderation	0	835	August 7, 2024
Discourse AI - Spam detection Site Management moderation , spam , how-to , ai	22	2350	September 25, 2025
Set up file and image uploads to S3 Self-Hosting configuring , how-to	35	119135	October 25, 2025