Documentation

Developer Guides Documentation about extending Discourse with plugins, themes, and theme components, working with the core code, and using the Discourse API. (Index) Integrations Documentation about connecting Discourse with other platforms and services. (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) 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
Create and share a color scheme Developer Guides how-to	1	6384	August 1, 2025
Create and share a font theme component Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	4	6038	August 19, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 6 - Add acceptance tests Developer Guides testing , plugin-guides , tutorial	32	17583	June 2, 2022
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 5 - Add an admin interface Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	46	26669	September 24, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 4 - Setup git Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	10	13170	January 30, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	32	83250	July 8, 2025
JavaScript type hinting & validation (typescript) Developer Guides	0	152	February 4, 2026
Auto-provisioning user accounts when SSO is enabled Integrations sso , how-to	0	154	April 3, 2026
How Discourse ID works Site Management discourse-id	23	2548	July 13, 2026
Deleting multiple users in bulk Site Management how-to , users	2	373	July 13, 2026
Discourse SEO overview (sitemap / robots.txt) Site Management seo , explanation	0	2350	October 18, 2023
Beginner's guide to using Discourse Themes Site Management reference , customization	12	84680	July 9, 2026
Add settings to your Discourse theme Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	6	17264	July 8, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 6. Using the JS API Developer Guides	3	1024	April 14, 2025
Using Plugin Outlet Connectors from a Theme or Plugin Developer Guides how-to , code	12	18809	October 14, 2024
Including your site in Discourse Discover Site Management how-to , discourse-discover	17	1005	July 7, 2026
Create a Salesforce lead via Zapier when a user signs up on Discourse Integrations how-to , zapier	0	2431	March 9, 2019
Automate sending Discourse invite emails with Zapier Integrations how-to , tasks , zapier	37	9612	May 3, 2024
Use the Zapier Discourse Zap Templates Integrations how-to , zapier	8	5216	July 8, 2022
Self-Hosting an OpenSource LLM for DiscourseAI Self-Hosting ai	12	3897	July 6, 2026
Set up Gemini API Keys for Discourse AI Integrations how-to , ai	1	817	July 4, 2026
Handling the "chain of trust" of the end user's real IP Self-Hosting docker , how-to	7	190	July 2, 2026
Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads Self-Hosting cdn , configuring , how-to , reference	265	48822	July 2, 2026
Run other websites on the same machine as Discourse Self-Hosting how-to , advanced-setup	66	138290	June 30, 2026
Understanding closed, unlisted, and archived topics Site Management explanation	3	32142	July 13, 2025
Serve Discourse from a subfolder (path prefix) instead of a subdomain Self-Hosting docker , subfolder , how-to , advanced-setup	30	43725	April 14, 2026
Theme Developer Tutorial: 7. Wrapping up Developer Guides	0	304	March 18, 2025
Theme Developer Tutorial: 1. Introduction Developer Guides	0	1438	March 18, 2025
Change icons globally Developer Guides how-to	26	9888	October 5, 2025
Minimizing Maintenance on Theme Customizations Developer Guides explanation , theme-guides	0	905	April 11, 2023