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## [Forum showing blank page on Desktop due to Cloudflare "optimizations"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-showing-blank-page-on-desktop-due-to-cloudflare-optimizations/56031)

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**Author:** [@Deukhoofd](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Deukhoofd)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [July 24, 2020, 10:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-showing-blank-page-on-desktop-due-to-cloudflare-optimizations/56031 "2020-07-24T10:25:32Z")

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Ever since this morning my forum has only been showing a blank page on desktops, while being fine on mobile. On loading the site the console logs the following error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'startRout…

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## [Is there a block diagram that documents how Discourse works](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-block-diagram-that-documents-how-discourse-works/56037)

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**Author:** [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 19, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-block-diagram-that-documents-how-discourse-works/56037 "2017-01-19T16:09:39Z")

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On a similar note, I haven’t managed to find a block diagram of how the system is put together. A block diagram might help new mods and admins get an overview of how a discourse “appliance” works. It would eliminate some…

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## [Does multiple tag search support AND vs OR?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-multiple-tag-search-support-and-vs-or/56041)

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**Author:** [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [June 2, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-multiple-tag-search-support-and-vs-or/56041 "2017-06-02T11:05:56Z")

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I think there is a bug when searching multiple tags. Here is the strange result I got on my Discourse: Based on the search, there should be 8 results. But it displays 9. The 2nd result is correct, but not the 1st one…

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## [Plagued by a Blank Screen with CloudFlare "optimizations"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plagued-by-a-blank-screen-with-cloudflare-optimizations/56043)

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**Author:** [@Curtis\_Lassam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Curtis_Lassam)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 19, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plagued-by-a-blank-screen-with-cloudflare-optimizations/56043 "2017-01-19T20:15:20Z")

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This morning, my Discourse install just stopped rendering properly. I took some pictures, but of course Discourse will not let me post them, because I’m a new user and I could be abusing the system. So instead I’ll post…

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## [Music on profiles?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/music-on-profiles/56050)

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**Author:** [@macknelson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/macknelson)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 24, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/music-on-profiles/56050 "2019-04-24T01:41:26Z")

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I’ll keep this short. I’m looking for a way to add profile music to user’s profile pages. I’ve looked around a bit on google and on these forums and found nothing. Any pointers on where to start to make this possible? …

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## [Slow (over 3 sec) SQL query](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slow-over-3-sec-sql-query/56051)

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**Author:** [@TomekB](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TomekB)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 20, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slow-over-3-sec-sql-query/56051 "2017-01-20T21:10:27Z")

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I’m trying to optimize a multi-docker Discourse instance for a forum with over 3M posts. Once loaded, Disourse is quite fast. Problem is that the first page load (or full F5 refresh) takes 4-5 seconds. There is one SQ…

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## [Remove "location" and "web site" under user \> preference](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-location-and-web-site-under-user-preference/56055)

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**Author:** [@harveywun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/harveywun)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 20, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-location-and-web-site-under-user-preference/56055 "2017-01-20T03:07:47Z")

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As topic description, is it possible to remove “location” and “web site” field under user \> preferences? I am making location a required user field when they sign-up (so having another location field under user \> prefer…

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## [Looking for Discourse Hosting + Custom Config + Admin Support](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-discourse-hosting-custom-config-admin-support/56058)

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**Author:** [@hamilton](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hamilton)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 20, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-discourse-hosting-custom-config-admin-support/56058 "2017-01-20T18:44:36Z")

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What would you like done? We’re looking to have a discourse server hosted (including backups), highly customized, have someone with expertise who can answer our questions, implement change requests on an ongoing basis. …

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## [Registration prompt](https://meta.discourse.org/t/registration-prompt/56071)

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**Author:** [@David\_Collantes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/David_Collantes)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 26, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/registration-prompt/56071 "2017-01-26T19:49:09Z")

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I could not find a “Requests” category, hoping this one is the right one, or that this will get moved accordingly. After browsing for a while a forum without being logged in, one could get the gentle push to do it (I lo…

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## [Some Emoji show broken](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-emoji-show-broken/56073)

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**Author:** [@Lutz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lutz)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [January 24, 2017, 8:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-emoji-show-broken/56073 "2017-01-24T08:21:50Z")

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Some Emoji, all from the category with the :eyeglasses:-Image are not working. :zero: :keycap\_star: :hash: :zero: :keycap\_star: :hash: (Please move if this should go to UX and not to BUG. Thank you!)

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## [Add plugin-outlet for user main navigation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-plugin-outlet-for-user-main-navigation/56075)

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**Author:** [@joebuhlig](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joebuhlig)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 20, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-plugin-outlet-for-user-main-navigation/56075 "2017-01-20T13:21:22Z")

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I’m working on a couple plugins where I’d like to add a menu item on the user level. To me it makes sense to have a way to add to this here: Any time we have something that is tied to the user, we could create a menu…

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## [Categories/Latest view live update](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-latest-view-live-update/56077)

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**Author:** [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 14, 2022, 11:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-latest-view-live-update/56077 "2022-02-14T23:27:52Z")

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As noted here, the split categories/latest view doesn’t “live update” to show new topics. It is also missing the “last visited” line, which makes it inferior to the full “latest” page. It would be great if these features…

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## [Request: Synchronize green indicator for unread private messages when the topic is open](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-synchronize-green-indicator-for-unread-private-messages-when-the-topic-is-open/56089)

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**Author:** [@Lutz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lutz)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [January 24, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-synchronize-green-indicator-for-unread-private-messages-when-the-topic-is-open/56089 "2017-01-24T05:04:46Z")

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It is somewhat complicated to explain. Let’s say you have a private conversation with a member and the appropriate topic /t/\[topic-name\]/\[numbers\] is open. Now the member will send you a new message in this topic. The g…

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## [Iframe onebox has stopped working](https://meta.discourse.org/t/iframe-onebox-has-stopped-working/56091)

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**Author:** [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [May 13, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/iframe-onebox-has-stopped-working/56091 "2019-05-13T16:26:24Z")

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I’ve set up one of our organisation’s systems to provide a onebox using this HTML tag As an example: on the page https://domain.here/2345, I have this tag: \<link rel="alternate" type="application/json+oembed" href="htt…

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## [Request: Onebox google finance (PAID)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-onebox-google-finance-paid/56092)

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**Author:** [@Lutz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lutz)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [February 9, 2017, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-onebox-google-finance-paid/56092 "2017-02-09T15:59:52Z")

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How much would it cost to onebox google finance? A link like this https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AIBM&ei=\_mSCWPGJNoutsQGfnIyIBA should show this: I could support this with a small budget, but I have no idea …

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## [Embed whole Discourse board into Wordpresspage](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-whole-discourse-board-into-wordpresspage/56094)

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**Author:** [@Sithys\_Mahony](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sithys_Mahony)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 20, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-whole-discourse-board-into-wordpresspage/56094 "2017-01-20T20:18:22Z")

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Hey Guys, as i’m just working on a new blog, i’d like to try out discourse instead of bbpress or woltlab inside it. So i set it up and tried it out a little bit and yes, i like it. So for simplicity i’d like to totaly i…

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## [Any Community Managers (or Discourse Devs) in the San Francisco area?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-community-managers-or-discourse-devs-in-the-san-francisco-area/56107)

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**Author:** [@Justin\_Veenema](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Justin_Veenema)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 21, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-community-managers-or-discourse-devs-in-the-san-francisco-area/56107 "2017-01-21T13:09:03Z")

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Hey all! As the title says, I’m looking for fellow Community peeps in the SF area. I help run the Unbounce Community and I’ll be in the bay area next week for some work related stuff. I would love to connect with other…

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## [Anyway to show location (or a custom field) next to the username for each reply?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anyway-to-show-location-or-a-custom-field-next-to-the-username-for-each-reply/56114)

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**Author:** [@harveywun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/harveywun)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [January 22, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anyway-to-show-location-or-a-custom-field-next-to-the-username-for-each-reply/56114 "2017-01-22T04:44:49Z")

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User location happens to be very important to our community. Is there anyway to show location (or a custom field) in the box above?

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## [How to limit downloadable content only for existing users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-limit-downloadable-content-only-for-existing-users/56117)

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**Author:** [@Arta\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arta_S)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 21, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-limit-downloadable-content-only-for-existing-users/56117 "2017-01-21T14:14:26Z")

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Hey guys, I wanted to know if its possible to make the downloadable content only available to registered users. has anyone done this before? Thanks

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## [User Title Field / Badges?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-title-field-badges/56134)

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**Author:** [@RobMeade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RobMeade)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 21, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-title-field-badges/56134 "2017-01-21T17:29:34Z")

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Hi all, Just a query. I have noticed that as a moderator I can edit a member’s title field and I am presented with a text box to do so. I am pretty confident this was the default behaviour some time ago when you updat…

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## [Error when upgrading discourse from 1.7](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-upgrading-discourse-from-1-7/56135)

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**Author:** [@wil93](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wil93)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 21, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-upgrading-discourse-from-1-7/56135 "2017-01-21T23:13:01Z")

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Since I encountered encoding issues I skipped upgrading the DB so I used “templates/postgres.9.3.template.yml” instead of “templates/postgres.template.yml”. Now when I try to rebuild I get this: The following packages w…

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## [Sort topics within category by topic title](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-topics-within-category-by-topic-title/56139)

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**Author:** [@scombs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/scombs)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 21, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-topics-within-category-by-topic-title/56139 "2017-01-21T21:08:56Z")

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Each category now has a sort order setting with ascending / descending. However, there is no option to sort for Original Post Title. Besides Created, seems like that would be a key u…

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## [Oneboxing media.ccc.de videos](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-media-ccc-de-videos/56154)

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**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 22, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-media-ccc-de-videos/56154 "2017-01-22T19:42:08Z")

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I’d love to be able to onebox videos like this one on ccc.de. Doesn’t currently work or I haven’t figured out how. \<iframe width="1024" height="576" src="https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8349-hacking\_the\_world/oembed" frameb…

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## [Using a Discourse component in a plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-a-discourse-component-in-a-plugin/56155)

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**Author:** [@jgujgu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jgujgu)\
**Replies:** 19\
**Last updated:** [January 26, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-a-discourse-component-in-a-plugin/56155 "2017-01-26T16:07:23Z")

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I have a question about reusing Discourse “core” Ember components in plugins. More particularly, I ran into trouble today trying to put a “signup” d-button into a plugin template. Here is where I tried to do: And this…

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## [Unable to install Discourse following the official instructions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-install-discourse-following-the-official-instructions/56157)

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**Author:** [@pablostarter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pablostarter)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 22, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-install-discourse-following-the-official-instructions/56157 "2017-01-22T15:50:10Z")

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Hi, I’m trying to install Discourse into a VPS following the provided instructions but after doing everything they say, step by step when I try to visit the site, the server doesn’t respond. I spent the last to day try…

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## [SparkPost redirects to spam domain?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sparkpost-redirects-to-spam-domain/56166)

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**Author:** [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 4, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sparkpost-redirects-to-spam-domain/56166 "2017-05-04T16:57:23Z")

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I use SparkPost to handle outgoing email and today I found that the “Visit topic” link, which used to go to sparkpostmail.com, now goes to http://post.spmailtechn.com, and another user reported seeing spam when clicking …

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## [Removing oneself from private messages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-oneself-from-private-messages/56170)

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**Author:** [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [March 6, 2018, 7:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-oneself-from-private-messages/56170 "2018-03-06T07:38:58Z")

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Our users are unable to remove themselves from private messages. I was under the impression that all users had this option. Is it only available for admins? Is there a related option in the control panel? Here is a scre…

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## [Red notification on hamburger is misleading](https://meta.discourse.org/t/red-notification-on-hamburger-is-misleading/56171)

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**Author:** [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 22, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/red-notification-on-hamburger-is-misleading/56171 "2017-01-22T21:25:50Z")

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2nd time I’ve seen this. A red notification appears at the hamburger, when I hover on it, it indicates “total flagged posts”, when I click on it it takes me to /admin/flags/active, but there aren’t any active flags. Whe…

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## [Remove Dropbox Onebox For Audio Links](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-dropbox-onebox-for-audio-links/56172)

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**Author:** [@JamesNorth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JamesNorth)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [August 31, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remove-dropbox-onebox-for-audio-links/56172 "2021-08-31T15:09:09Z")

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Hi All, The Dropbox Onebox works great generally - the pretty box with the folder/file name etc .. but with some individual files (like mp3 etc) it attempts to ‘play’ the file with the inbuilt audio player. https://www…

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## [SSO Configured but Not Working](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-configured-but-not-working/56175)

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**Author:** [@Taylor\_Johnson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Taylor_Johnson)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [March 3, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-configured-but-not-working/56175 "2017-03-03T20:57:43Z")

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I configured SSO on my WordPress site for my Discourse site, but when I log into my WordPress site and then navigate to the Discourse site I am not automatically logged in. Is there any detailed documentation on the SSO…

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