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
Enable hidden setting to include S3 uploads in the backups Self-Hosting backups , how-to	10	1532	January 12, 2026
Filtering topic lists in Discourse Using Discourse reference , topic-filter , search	16	675	January 12, 2026
Linking user titles to groups Site Management how-to , groups	5	3311	April 22, 2025
Create, download, and restore a backup of your Discourse database Self-Hosting how-to , backups	22	23228	January 9, 2026
Configure Discourse to use a separate PostgreSQL server Self-Hosting how-to	50	28408	January 8, 2026
House Ad Templates Site Management how-to , advertising	31	10584	January 8, 2026
Creating a banner to display at the top of your site Site Management how-to , customization	11	14994	January 7, 2026
Creating and managing calendars Using Discourse calendar-and-event , how-to	14	3392	September 16, 2025
Making your forum more accessible Site Management accessibility , how-to	1	1120	January 6, 2026
Install Discourse for development using Docker Developer Guides dev-install , docker , how-to	218	84601	January 6, 2026
Set up structured tagging with tag groups and category tag restrictions Site Management tutorial , tags	0	26056	August 5, 2016
Watched Words Reference Guide Site Management reference , watched-words , content	9	5041	October 22, 2025
Find a translation key with verbose localization Site Management how-to , customization	1	2968	January 3, 2026
Merging user accounts Site Management users , how-to , merge-user	2	2427	January 2, 2026
Setting up NSFW detection in your community Site Management moderation , automation , how-to , ai	2	822	January 1, 2026
Configuring and troubleshooting oneboxes Site Management onebox , how-to , content	1	2407	July 17, 2024
Customizing the Discourse outer email template Site Management email , how-to	13	5662	May 19, 2022
Making custom CSS changes on your site Site Management css , how-to	3	9367	December 30, 2025
Using the JS API Developer Guides plugin-api , explanation , code	17	11563	November 25, 2025
Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI Site Management ai , content-localization	49	2149	December 27, 2025
Discourse toolkit to render forms Developer Guides	28	1130	December 23, 2025
Composer Popup Messages Guide Site Management composer , explanation	7	615	December 20, 2025
Using service objects in Discourse Developer Guides	0	445	October 30, 2024
Adding preview screenshots to Discourse themes Developer Guides	2	262	July 16, 2025
Configure Facebook login for Discourse Integrations sso , how-to , social-auth	31	331405	December 17, 2025
Understanding groups and category permissions Site Management groups , explanation	1	26488	June 12, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 2 - Connect to a plugin outlet Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	38	29638	November 23, 2025
Change icons globally Developer Guides how-to	26	9447	October 5, 2025
Configure your domain name for hosted Discourse Hosted Customers how-to	0	52179	November 4, 2014
Configure sign up and log in with Auth0 using the OAuth2 Basic Plugin Integrations auth-plugins , oauth2 , how-to , sso	73	19551	December 16, 2025