# Hot

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## [Best tools, materials & practices to onboard a hoarde of new users?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-tools-materials-practices-to-onboard-a-hoarde-of-new-users/46426)

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**Author:** [@Flo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Flo)\
**Replies:** 22\
**Last updated:** [January 30, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-tools-materials-practices-to-onboard-a-hoarde-of-new-users/46426 "2018-01-30T22:18:54Z")

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Hi there! we’re a higher education learning platform for refugees, and we will launch discourse as part of our platform in a few days. We hope that it will soon become the social core of our virtual campus. Now I think…

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## [Running a single test](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-a-single-test/46429)

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**Author:** [@markwingerd](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markwingerd)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 25, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-a-single-test/46429 "2016-06-25T02:21:00Z")

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Hi, Is there a way to run a single JavaScript test file? Thanks

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## [Plugin outlets using site customizations not working after 1.6 upgrade](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-outlets-using-site-customizations-not-working-after-1-6-upgrade/46440)

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**Author:** [@Ashwani\_K\_Goel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ashwani_K_Goel)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 27, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-outlets-using-site-customizations-not-working-after-1-6-upgrade/46440 "2016-06-27T02:34:27Z")

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Hi there, I recently rebuilt discourse and ended up updating from v1.5.0.beta3 +81 to 1.6.0.beta9 and all the outlets have stopped working. Something as simple as below in section of Customise won’t work: \<script type…

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## [Naming uncategorized category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/naming-uncategorized-category/46443)

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**Author:** [@Idan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Idan)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 26, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/naming-uncategorized-category/46443 "2016-06-26T17:48:37Z")

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I want to call ‘uncategorized’ category ‘general’, can I do it? (also the URL/slug) I have full access to the server.

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## [Is there a way to restyle the solution?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-restyle-the-solution/46459)

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**Author:** [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [March 8, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-restyle-the-solution/46459 "2017-03-08T22:33:47Z")

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and also to change the background of the accepted answer in the topic page to green? that is to make it more handy, in a topic with lots of replies.

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## [Error rebuilding, bundler exits with code 137](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-rebuilding-bundler-exits-with-code-137/46463)

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**Author:** [@OmJmr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OmJmr)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [June 26, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-rebuilding-bundler-exits-with-code-137/46463 "2016-06-26T22:26:39Z")

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Hi I got this error when I tried to rebuild app “./launcher rebuild app” FAILED -------------------- Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake assets:precompile' failed with return #\<P…

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## [Google Analytics setting configuration](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-analytics-setting-configuration/46466)

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**Author:** [@Idan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Idan)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [December 19, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-analytics-setting-configuration/46466 "2017-12-19T22:33:29Z")

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I don’t understand the Google Analytics settings. If I put the code that Google gives m in the ‘ga universal tracking code’, do I need to fill in the ‘ga tracking code’ and ‘ga domain name’ as well?

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## [Hide badge user list?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-badge-user-list/46471)

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**Author:** [@jesselperry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jesselperry)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-badge-user-list/46471 "2016-07-03T18:24:27Z")

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Is there a way to remove the list of users granted a particular badge — while still having the badge enabled and listed on the main Badges page?

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## [New user welcome PM shows old style timeline](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-welcome-pm-shows-old-style-timeline/46480)

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**Author:** [@wityr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wityr)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 27, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-welcome-pm-shows-old-style-timeline/46480 "2016-06-27T05:02:33Z")

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Here’s a low priority UX bug: In the ‘Welcome to’ message that all new users get the picture for the time line is still this style, rather than the current vertical slider style.

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## [Backend's "IP Lookup" popup is wrong positioned on phone screen](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backends-ip-lookup-popup-is-wrong-positioned-on-phone-screen/46495)

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**Author:** [@dmitry\_fedyuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dmitry_fedyuk)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backends-ip-lookup-popup-is-wrong-positioned-on-phone-screen/46495 "2017-04-21T18:51:07Z")

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I am unable even to shift it manually to the screen’s center. I am also unable to see it by making the UI elements smaller (they are not resizeable).

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## [Exclude some moderators and admins from private category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-some-moderators-and-admins-from-private-category/46496)

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**Author:** [@Yonatan\_Golan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yonatan_Golan)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 27, 2016, 11:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-some-moderators-and-admins-from-private-category/46496 "2016-06-27T11:25:07Z")

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We have a Co-op community using discourse. We have different committees working on different subjects and some of them have discussions about other co-op members which we prefer to be private. We created a private catego…

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## [Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages when trying to run a phpBB importer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-correct-problems-you-have-held-broken-packages-when-trying-to-run-a-phpbb-importer/46499)

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**Author:** [@mbajur](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbajur)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 27, 2016, 11:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-correct-problems-you-have-held-broken-packages-when-trying-to-run-a-phpbb-importer/46499 "2016-06-27T11:49:13Z")

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Hello! I’m trying to run a docker phpbb3 importer by following this guide: Migrate a phpBB3 forum to Discourse However, during point 3 (./launcher rebuild import), script gives me a following output: I was able to ru…

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## [Possible to not log user IP addresses?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-not-log-user-ip-addresses/46502)

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**Author:** [@tagawa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tagawa)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [August 20, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-not-log-user-ip-addresses/46502 "2017-08-20T17:10:44Z")

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In the admin screen for users we can see their last visited and registered IP addresses. In line with my company’s approach to privacy, we don’t want to record these but I can’t see a setting to switch it off. Is there s…

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## [Connection timed out while connecting to upstream on AWS](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-timed-out-while-connecting-to-upstream-on-aws/46517)

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**Author:** [@stefanini.mf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stefanini.mf)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [June 28, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connection-timed-out-while-connecting-to-upstream-on-aws/46517 "2016-06-28T03:41:06Z")

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I’m hosting a discourse instance (running latest), on aws with 7.5gb ram and 2 CPU’s (it’s a m3.large). While sometimes discourse works okay, some other times requests seem to get stuck and people either see a infinite …

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## [User card opening outside view](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-opening-outside-view/46518)

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**Author:** [@P16](https://meta.discourse.org/u/P16)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 27, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-opening-outside-view/46518 "2016-06-27T16:22:17Z")

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When clicking on a user to view the user card, if the username/icon being clicked is at the bottom or at the very top, the card is not shown fully and gets cut. See below for example: The above screenshot is from the…

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## [JS error after upgrade](https://meta.discourse.org/t/js-error-after-upgrade/46523)

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**Author:** [@shadowhand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shadowhand)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [July 11, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/js-error-after-upgrade/46523 "2016-07-11T07:44:05Z")

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After upgrading to latest discourse this morning, I see the following error in the JS console and my forum does not load: Uncaught SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list Here’s a screenshot of the issue, you can se…

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## [Like Count in Posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/like-count-in-posts/46540)

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**Author:** [@wemod](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wemod)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 28, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/like-count-in-posts/46540 "2016-06-28T23:31:39Z")

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Hey! I was wondering what it would take to get a like count displayed next to usernames in posts. It would serve as a sort of karma indicator / contribution counter for our members. A lot of our forum members miss it f…

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## [No search results are shown for stopwords](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-search-results-are-shown-for-stopwords/46541)

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**Author:** [@Jiaqi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jiaqi)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [July 13, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-search-results-are-shown-for-stopwords/46541 "2020-07-13T00:29:50Z")

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Hi friends, I discovered very strange problems on my website. My website is an online dictionary that contains many words, so every topic is in the format of “WORD meaning-Pronunciation-Example”. However, when I search…

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## [Activating "bootstrap mode" on an old community](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activating-bootstrap-mode-on-an-old-community/46563)

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**Author:** [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activating-bootstrap-mode-on-an-old-community/46563 "2016-06-30T11:42:12Z")

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I recently migrated an old community that has a few hundred members, but was not very active. We’re making positive steps, but our engagement is still quite low. I think changing digest frequency might help (or alienate …

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## [Raw template plugin-outlet use can lead to assertion failure](https://meta.discourse.org/t/raw-template-plugin-outlet-use-can-lead-to-assertion-failure/46569)

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**Author:** [@Acshi\_Haggenmiller](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Acshi_Haggenmiller)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/raw-template-plugin-outlet-use-can-lead-to-assertion-failure/46569 "2016-06-29T01:02:46Z")

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I have a plugin I am working on that extends the topic-list-item with the topic-list-tags plugin-outlet with a file in …/connectors/topic-list-tags/file-name.raw.hbs. When my page loads (I am running in development mode …

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## [User directory disabled, users list visible in mentions autocomplete](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-disabled-users-list-visible-in-mentions-autocomplete/46571)

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**Author:** [@mferrero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mferrero)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-disabled-users-list-visible-in-mentions-autocomplete/46571 "2016-06-29T08:09:15Z")

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Hello, we are using Discourse for customer care, as described in Is it a security violation to show a directory of users? We have already disabled enable\_user\_directory (thanks for the feature!) When posting a user can…

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## [Improve support for Tags in the UI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-support-for-tags-in-the-ui/46575)

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**Author:** [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [May 29, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-support-for-tags-in-the-ui/46575 "2017-05-29T14:41:02Z")

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Overview page Now that “Tags” is bundled into the core, the overview page (/tags) could use some love. It would be nice if you could add it to the top nav from the admin (without adding custom code) and also to preserve …

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## [/username.json error for a specific user on a topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/username-json-error-for-a-specific-user-on-a-topic/46586)

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**Author:** [@ivanrlio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ivanrlio)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 28, 2016, 9:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/username-json-error-for-a-specific-user-on-a-topic/46586 "2016-06-28T21:48:38Z")

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We have developed a topic thread sidebar that displays topic contributors, suggested discussions etc. For one of our particular threads (https://ask.twobyfore.com/t/craigslist-rental-scam/380), a new user (darrell\_cray)…

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## [Promote Steam Auth to Built-in](https://meta.discourse.org/t/promote-steam-auth-to-built-in/46608)

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**Author:** [@TimeDoctor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TimeDoctor)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2016, 9:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/promote-steam-auth-to-built-in/46608 "2016-06-29T09:22:56Z")

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Is there any reason why Steam isn’t one of the built-in authentication providers? Pros: There are more users for Steam (35 million according to SteamSpy) than GitHub (14 million according to Wikipedia page). There is …

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## [How does Discourse implement live update notifications?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-implement-live-update-notifications/46610)

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**Author:** [@piratdavid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/piratdavid)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 1, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-implement-live-update-notifications/46610 "2016-07-01T16:37:20Z")

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Hi, I have written a plugin that has a news feed with a lists of latest topics in a sidebar. It updates regularly by making an ajax call to /latest.json every few seconds. The existing latest page in the forum has the s…

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## [Notification count doesn't decrease live](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-count-doesnt-decrease-live/46620)

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**Author:** [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2022, 7:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-count-doesnt-decrease-live/46620 "2022-07-21T07:02:16Z")

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If I recall correctly, some time ago, the blue number next to your avatar was always updated live, in both directions. Now, this isn’t working (anymore). The number counts up when a notification is pushed, but doesn’t c…

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## [\[PAID\] We need someone to customize a Discourse design](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-we-need-someone-to-customize-a-discourse-design/46631)

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**Author:** [@EddieOne](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EddieOne)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [July 1, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-we-need-someone-to-customize-a-discourse-design/46631 "2016-07-01T14:22:25Z")

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We have a Discouse forum setup with minimal design changes so far. We are looking for someone who can completely rework the design. We are looking for a more horizontal and traditional forum style. See the example below. …

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## [Will I be able to use sso if my user model comes from Hartl's Rails Tutorial?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/will-i-be-able-to-use-sso-if-my-user-model-comes-from-hartls-rails-tutorial/46641)

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**Author:** [@railsnoob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/railsnoob)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/will-i-be-able-to-use-sso-if-my-user-model-comes-from-hartls-rails-tutorial/46641 "2016-06-29T20:49:30Z")

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Instead of using devise to build my webapp, I instead used the User model from Hartl’s Rails Tutorial. Will I be able to use sso with Discourse?

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## [Make our Discourse install match the design of our site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-our-discourse-install-match-the-design-of-our-site/46646)

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**Author:** [@Taryn\_Sullivan\_Dexte](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Taryn_Sullivan_Dexte)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-our-discourse-install-match-the-design-of-our-site/46646 "2016-06-29T23:24:27Z")

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What would you like done? We would like someone who has a good design eye to make our Discourse forum match our site www.dexterindustries.com so that it feels like you never leave our site when you are on the Discourse …

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## [\[PAID\] USD 555 for upgrading the discourse-static-pages plugin to the new Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-usd-555-for-upgrading-the-discourse-static-pages-plugin-to-the-new-discourse-api/46655)

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**Author:** [@bzg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bzg)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [July 19, 2016, 7:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-usd-555-for-upgrading-the-discourse-static-pages-plugin-to-the-new-discourse-api/46655 "2016-07-19T07:43:40Z")

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What would you like done? We need our plugin discourse-static-pages to use the new Discourse API. See this issue: https://github.com/ShareLex/discourse-static-pages/issues/1 The plugin implements a way to have static…

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