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
Install plugins on a self-hosted site Self-Hosting how-to	44	255313	November 16, 2025
How Discourse ID works Site Management discourse-id	38	1036	November 15, 2025
Composer Popup Messages Guide Site Management composer , explanation	6	504	November 15, 2025
Adding users to groups through custom field automation Site Management groups , automation , how-to , user-custom-fields	18	1645	November 15, 2025
Using the JS API Developer Guides plugin-api , explanation , code	17	11350	November 16, 2025
Change the maximum attachment/upload size Self-Hosting how-to	12	15696	November 14, 2025
Update themes and plugins to support automatic dark mode Developer Guides how-to , auto-dark , theme-guides	10	4009	November 14, 2025
Redirect old forum URLs to new Discourse URLs using permalinks Migrating to Discourse how-to	10	28973	September 13, 2024
Using service objects in Discourse Developer Guides	0	371	October 30, 2024
Discourse AI - AI bot Site Management ai , ai-bot , how-to	51	15775	November 13, 2025
Setup DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso) Integrations sso , configuring , discourseconnect , how-to	42	450207	November 13, 2025
Making custom CSS changes on your site Site Management css , how-to	3	9030	June 17, 2024
Set up Discourse for development on Fedora Linux Developer Guides dev-install , how-to	10	4150	November 12, 2025
Tips for Preventing Spam Site Management explanation , moderation , spam	13	4412	November 11, 2025
Admin guide to tags in Discourse Site Management reference , tags	10	29841	November 9, 2025
Accessing a user’s admin page Site Management users , how-to	12	6156	April 8, 2025
Changing a user's email address when they can't access their account Site Management how-to , users	3	10473	November 7, 2025
Understanding groups and category permissions Site Management groups , explanation	1	26226	June 12, 2024
Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI Site Management ai , content-localization	45	1516	November 4, 2025
Creating and managing calendars Using Discourse calendar-and-event , how-to	14	3149	September 16, 2025
How to investigate bot traffic using Google Analytics Site Management moderation	0	43	November 4, 2025
Understanding Discourse for new users Using Discourse reference	2	195897	September 18, 2025
Using Transformers to customize client-side values and behavior Developer Guides	1	409	November 3, 2025
Customizing specific system email templates Site Management email , how-to	8	12180	November 3, 2025
Deleting multiple users in bulk Site Management how-to , users	1	221	November 3, 2025
Using topic templates for categories Site Management reference , content	5	17842	November 2, 2025
Available settings for global rate limits and throttling Self-Hosting reference	4	22644	November 2, 2025
Creating and managing events Using Discourse calendar-and-event , how-to	3	37855	November 2, 2025
Set up Telegram integration using the discourse-chat-integration plugin Integrations chat-integration , how-to	92	18235	October 31, 2025
Creating a banner to display at the top of your site Site Management how-to , customization	10	14547	October 30, 2025