# Hot **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=1153 [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) **Page:** 1154 --- ## [Group categories by County/geolocation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-categories-by-county-geolocation/148517)
**Author:** [@daggemarren](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daggemarren)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-categories-by-county-geolocation/148517 "2020-04-19T14:33:22Z")
Hello! I would like to create another level of category for my community. As a user i want to create topics under a category that belongs to a county. e.g. County → Marketplace → Topic. How can i achive this? Thanks! --- ## [Least amount of storage](https://meta.discourse.org/t/least-amount-of-storage/148520)
**Author:** [@YusufH](https://meta.discourse.org/u/YusufH)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/least-amount-of-storage/148520 "2020-04-19T16:38:02Z")
So I am running discourse on an AWS(Free tier) EC2 instance with Route 53 as DNS and AWS SES as SMTP, and I want to use the least amount of storage possible to be efficient with the maximum 30 GB I get through my free ti… --- ## [Custom emojis have double colons](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emojis-have-double-colons/148523)
**Author:** [@wallaceandgromit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wallaceandgromit)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emojis-have-double-colons/148523 "2020-04-19T16:54:27Z")
Hey all. I added some custom emojis to my forum and I’ve got two issues: The custom emoji doesn’t display in the emoji panel preview when hovering It’s applying two sets of colons to the emoji (i.e. ::likethis:: ) Yo… --- ## [Is there a way to edit \ site wide in one place?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-edit-header-site-wide-in-one-place/148528)
**Author:** [@007](https://meta.discourse.org/u/007)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-edit-header-site-wide-in-one-place/148528 "2020-04-19T17:15:20Z")
Hi, I noticed I can edit the header in each theme individually, but is there a way to edit it site wide in one place? Like for adding the Facebook pixel, google tag manager, etc. I realize there’s a google tag manager p… --- ## [2container setup option](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2container-setup-option/148539)
**Author:** [@mbronstein](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbronstein)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2container-setup-option/148539 "2020-04-21T03:11:55Z")
Setting up a forum and really wanted to do a two container install, but am enough of a newbie that I found the discussion about editing the template files offputting. Then stumbled across the “2container” commandline op… --- ## [Too many Crawlers, is that a problem?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-crawlers-is-that-a-problem/148550)
**Author:** [@salmanfarisvp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/salmanfarisvp)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 25, 2020, 6:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-crawlers-is-that-a-problem/148550 "2020-06-25T06:20:42Z")
Hi, In our forum we got too much Too many Crawlers, it’ like 81k to 90k as average! So Is that will cause any problems? if yes how can I disable Bad Crawlers from crawling? I listed blacklisted crawler user agents as m… --- ## [Faq category cleanup! 🧹](https://meta.discourse.org/t/faq-category-cleanup/148566)
**Author:** [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 18, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/faq-category-cleanup/148566 "2020-05-18T15:00:00Z")
We are cleaning up our #howto:faq category :confetti\_ball: Over the years we have accumulated a lot of changes to Discourse that are not properly reflected in #howto:faq making it hard for people to reason and learn abo… --- ## [Pin Globally UX is confusing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pin-globally-ux-is-confusing/148567)
**Author:** [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 4:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pin-globally-ux-is-confusing/148567 "2020-04-20T04:14:16Z")
In Firefox, notice the double :clock1: and the way the text is below the date line. --- ## [Know who has viewed your post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/know-who-has-viewed-your-post/148570)
**Author:** [@Hilario](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hilario)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/know-who-has-viewed-your-post/148570 "2021-04-21T20:09:15Z")
Hello, In some categories, when you are not many people, it is important to confirm who has viewed your entry. One option could be to use the “like” button to tell people “I have viewed your entry”. But some of my user… --- ## [Why are we unable to create subcats for mods within the Staff category?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-we-unable-to-create-subcats-for-mods-within-the-staff-category/148578)
**Author:** [@InspektorCluzo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/InspektorCluzo)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2020, 5:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-we-unable-to-create-subcats-for-mods-within-the-staff-category/148578 "2020-07-19T05:52:38Z")
This is what we get when we try to create a subcat for admins (same problem for mods) within the Staff category: “Any group that is allowed to access a subcategory must also be allowed to access the parent category. The… --- ## [\[PAID\] Have Discourse comment box appear instead of Wordpress comment box](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-have-discourse-comment-box-appear-instead-of-wordpress-comment-box/148595)
**Author:** [@Michael\_SC](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Michael_SC)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 1:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-have-discourse-comment-box-appear-instead-of-wordpress-comment-box/148595 "2020-04-20T13:31:33Z")
Can someone help me place the Discourse comment box (with option to login or sign-up if the visitor is not logged in) at the end of a Wordpress blog post? Essentially, like the way all the comment plugins with Wordpres… --- ## [Error embedding Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-embedding-discourse/148601)
**Author:** [@Roque\_Terrani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Roque_Terrani)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-embedding-discourse/148601 "2020-04-30T18:50:37Z")
Hi! I am part of the team of Grow with Jane, we are a web platform for cannabis growers. We already have a very successful tracking app but we are trying to create an online community now. We have a Wordpress installed w… --- ## [Can you make Discourse look like medium.com?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-make-discourse-look-like-medium-com/148603)
**Author:** [@JQ331](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JQ331)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-make-discourse-look-like-medium-com/148603 "2020-04-20T14:29:19Z")
As someone new to Medium, I’m trying to understand how much you can customize the look and feel of a forum. I’m wondering if there’s a way to make your forum look more like a news site. Or make it seem to your users like… --- ## [WARNING: Discourse requires 1GB RAM](https://meta.discourse.org/t/warning-discourse-requires-1gb-ram/148607)
**Author:** [@vove](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vove)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2023, 7:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/warning-discourse-requires-1gb-ram/148607 "2023-03-30T07:05:51Z")
Hi all! I’ve been trying to install Discourse, but without success so far. I have a VPS with 1 GB ram and a 2gb swap file. Whenever I run ./discourse-setup I get the following error. (I’ve done a few clean installs on … --- ## [Discourse Code Modification for personal use](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-code-modification-for-personal-use/148610)
**Author:** [@suman0099](https://meta.discourse.org/u/suman0099)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-code-modification-for-personal-use/148610 "2020-04-20T12:59:11Z")
Is there any guide for making changes to discourse codebase for adding features or changing UI. I don’t want to use Theme Component or Plugin API --- ## [Integration of GeoGebra Content](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-of-geogebra-content/148616)
**Author:** [@gruenler123154](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gruenler123154)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 20, 2021, 7:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integration-of-geogebra-content/148616 "2021-12-20T07:59:56Z")
I had no luck integrating interactive mathematical GeoGebra Content: Can somebody five me a hint? Example Page: --- ## [Proper way to secure/backup Discourse on self-hosted server?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/proper-way-to-secure-backup-discourse-on-self-hosted-server/148624)
**Author:** [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/proper-way-to-secure-backup-discourse-on-self-hosted-server/148624 "2020-04-22T15:44:57Z")
Hi, On a self-hosted server, what are the best ways to prevent our forum to be gone forever? How to properly and securely backup our precious? On a now deleted topic, @falco said: Doing file system snapshots isn’t su… --- ## [Best Practices for Backups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-backups/148630)
**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-backups/148630 "2020-04-20T15:21:23Z")
If you are self-hosted, you should keep off-site backups in case there is some catastrophic problem with your server. Imagine that went out of business one day without any warning, or you somehow managed to delete /var/… --- ## [How would one go about setting up discourse for tor?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-would-one-go-about-setting-up-discourse-for-tor/148639)
**Author:** [@vove](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vove)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-would-one-go-about-setting-up-discourse-for-tor/148639 "2020-04-22T10:39:46Z")
Hello, First of all let me explain what I’d like to do. I want discourse running behind nginx on tor. Discourse will only be accessible through tor. Setting up nginx with tor is no problem but I’m struggling setting up… --- ## [Wrong arrow color on boxed categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wrong-arrow-color-on-boxed-categories/148640)
**Author:** [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2020, 11:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wrong-arrow-color-on-boxed-categories/148640 "2020-04-22T11:10:19Z")
Here’s a boxed category selector: The arrow color is set by a style HTML attribute. When you click on the selector, the style attribute is removed and the arrow becomes grey from its CSS property: If you unselect … --- ## [Backup download cannot be completed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-download-cannot-be-completed/148649)
**Author:** [@Jay91](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jay91)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [December 21, 2022, 11:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-download-cannot-be-completed/148649 "2022-12-21T11:57:07Z")
I made a new backup file, 310.4mb, I’m downloading the file through the link I receive to my email but when more than 100mb of the file downloaded the browser simply is canceling it. --- ## [jQuery(?) fade effect override](https://meta.discourse.org/t/jquery-fade-effect-override/148651)
**Author:** [@pnoeric](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pnoeric)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/jquery-fade-effect-override/148651 "2020-04-20T18:54:16Z")
Hi, when you nav to a specific post, the UI highlights the DIV for a second. The problem is that I’ve changed the default background color of that div to white, which is now different from the site background color. Can… --- ## [How to install Discourse without a mail server?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-without-a-mail-server/148656)
**Author:** [@gaurang.prasad](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gaurang.prasad)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-without-a-mail-server/148656 "2020-04-20T22:13:28Z")
Hi, I’d like to install Discourse for our wiki community (we use MediaWiki). Currently, we do not have a SMTP server - since our wiki doesn’t require users to have an email to create an account. I would want SSO enabled… --- ## [Trust Level Group Counts don't match](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trust-level-group-counts-dont-match/148675)
**Author:** [@Jumanji](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jumanji)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trust-level-group-counts-dont-match/148675 "2020-04-20T22:39:56Z")
I was just viewing our TL group counts and noticed that the stats displaying on the Admin Dashboard don’t match to the same TL group stats listed if you go to Settings | Groups. Is that by design? If so, what causes th… --- ## [API POST for New User](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-post-for-new-user/148676)
**Author:** [@waffleslop](https://meta.discourse.org/u/waffleslop)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-post-for-new-user/148676 "2020-04-23T13:00:43Z")
I am attempting to make a POST request via API to create a new user. Use case: Creating a new user once a credit card form is submitted on a Wordpress site. Ultimately, this will be fired from Google Tag Manager using J… --- ## [Easy way to migrate askbot to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/easy-way-to-migrate-askbot-to-discourse/148677)
**Author:** [@Venkat\_K](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Venkat_K)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/easy-way-to-migrate-askbot-to-discourse/148677 "2020-04-20T23:52:37Z")
Is there any way to migrate existing askbot based website to Discourse ? --- ## [Show tag filter on mobile view](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-tag-filter-on-mobile-view/148693)
**Author:** [@tomwrench](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tomwrench)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-tag-filter-on-mobile-view/148693 "2020-07-14T06:28:45Z")
Is there a way to show the tag filter on mobile? It appears to be hidden/not exist. Thanks --- ## [Discourse behind reverse proxy and https](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-behind-reverse-proxy-and-https/148705)
**Author:** [@Grunskin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Grunskin)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2022, 6:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-behind-reverse-proxy-and-https/148705 "2022-03-13T18:31:59Z")
I’m trying to setup Discourse behind my Apache reverse proxy but I can’t get it working properly with https. I’ve had a lot of problems getting this far. Right now I have Discourse on a server and an Apache server infro… --- ## [Theme development in CI/CD fashion](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-development-in-ci-cd-fashion/148714)
**Author:** [@zcuric](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zcuric)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-development-in-ci-cd-fashion/148714 "2020-04-21T13:14:16Z")
Hi, do you guys have suggestion how to approach theme deployment in CI/CD fashion? Client expects new theme releases every two weeks and we would like to ship theme in automated process. We are using discourse docker. W… --- ## [Tiny feature request for core: add 3 classes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tiny-feature-request-for-core-add-3-classes/148725)
**Author:** [@pnoeric](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pnoeric)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tiny-feature-request-for-core-add-3-classes/148725 "2020-04-22T12:27:53Z")
Hi, I’m working on styling the ‘quote’ box… is it possible for Discourse core to gain classes on the down arrow (see quote in context) and the up arrow (jump to quoted message)? And-- more importantly-- could there a… [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=1152) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/hot.md?page=1154)