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
Accessing a user’s admin page Site Management users , how-to	12	6031	April 8, 2025
Changing a user's email address when they can't access their account Site Management how-to , users	3	10447	November 7, 2025
Understanding groups and category permissions Site Management groups , explanation	1	26161	June 12, 2024
Install plugins on a self-hosted site Self-Hosting how-to	40	255012	November 5, 2025
Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI Site Management ai , content-localization	45	1418	November 4, 2025
Creating and managing calendars Using Discourse calendar-and-event , how-to	14	3085	September 16, 2025
How to investigate bot traffic using Google Analytics Site Management moderation	0	26	November 4, 2025
Understanding Discourse for new users Using Discourse reference	2	195525	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	12139	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	17823	November 2, 2025
Available settings for global rate limits and throttling Self-Hosting reference	4	22597	November 2, 2025
Creating and managing events Using Discourse calendar-and-event , how-to	3	37789	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	18204	October 31, 2025
Creating a banner to display at the top of your site Site Management how-to , customization	10	14451	October 30, 2025
Understanding pageviews and the site traffic report Site Management dashboard-reports , explanation	1	968	December 12, 2024
Backup discourse from the command line Self-Hosting how-to , backups	6	11629	October 28, 2025
Administrative Bulk Operations Self-Hosting configuring , reference	7	13686	August 19, 2024
Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads Self-Hosting configuring , reference , how-to , cdn	260	43089	October 28, 2025
Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript Integrations embedding , how-to	123	299586	October 27, 2025
Discourse AI - Helper Site Management ai , ai-helper , how-to	16	3284	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	2290	September 6, 2025
Setting up NSFW detection in your community Site Management moderation , automation , how-to , ai	0	694	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	2329	September 25, 2025
Set up file and image uploads to S3 Self-Hosting configuring , how-to	35	119120	October 25, 2025
Discourse AI - Sentiment Site Management ai , content , ai-sentiment , how-to	14	5246	October 24, 2025