Documentation

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) Hosted Customers Documentation and guides for people who run Discourse-hosted sites (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
Backup discourse from the command line Self-Hosting how-to , backups	8	12143	May 17, 2026
Automatically lint and format code before commits Developer Guides how-to , code	1	1486	March 13, 2026
How to set the same sidebar categories for all the users Site Management sidebar	3	95	May 14, 2026
Beginner's guide to using Discourse Themes Site Management reference , customization	11	83895	March 26, 2025
Watched Words Reference Guide Site Management reference , watched-words , content	16	5651	February 16, 2026
Configuring Default Notification Settings for Users Site Management users , notifications , explanation	11	2976	February 20, 2026
Self-Hosting Sentiment and Emotion for DiscourseAI Self-Hosting ai-sentiment , ai	14	1050	May 12, 2026
Integrate Google Tag Manager with Google Analytics Integrations how-to , analytics , platforms	4	25031	January 26, 2025
Discourse AI - Large Language Model (LLM) settings page Site Management ai , how-to	21	3390	May 9, 2026
Create, download, and restore a backup of your Discourse database Self-Hosting how-to , backups	24	24216	May 7, 2026
Install Discourse for development using Docker Developer Guides dev-install , docker , how-to	225	87639	May 7, 2026
Get started with Theme Creator and the Theme CLI Developer Guides how-to , theme-creator , theme-guides	8	12757	May 7, 2026
Available settings within the category edit page Site Management reference	1	1394	May 7, 2026
Discourse toolkit to render forms Developer Guides	28	1407	December 23, 2025
Understanding pageviews and the site traffic report Site Management dashboard-reports , explanation	2	1343	May 5, 2026
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 2 - Connect to a plugin outlet Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	38	30076	November 23, 2025
Configuring Discourse for a closed or private community Site Management invites , how-to	1	6487	May 5, 2026
Add custom content that only appears on your homepage Developer Guides how-to	10	8098	February 29, 2024
Add localizable strings to themes and theme components Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	22	5459	August 9, 2024
Structure of themes and theme components Developer Guides reference , theme-guides	0	29256	April 12, 2017
Theme Developer Quick Reference Guide Developer Guides reference , theme-guides	2	9755	June 28, 2021
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 5 - Add an admin interface Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	47	26291	September 24, 2024
(not recommended) Overriding Discourse templates from a Theme or Plugin Developer Guides how-to	11	2611	July 26, 2024
Creating Routes in Discourse and Showing Data Developer Guides ember , tutorial	1	11727	May 25, 2024
Using Plugin Outlet Connectors from a Theme or Plugin Developer Guides how-to , code	12	18614	October 14, 2024
Using the DModal API to render Modal windows (aka popups/dialogs) in Discourse Developer Guides code	1	2050	December 27, 2023
Setup Continuous Integration using GitHub Actions Developer Guides how-to , code	8	1547	March 3, 2025
Write acceptance tests and component tests for Ember code in Discourse Developer Guides testing , ember , tutorial , code	3	4225	February 23, 2024
Customizing specific system email templates Site Management email , how-to	9	12877	March 19, 2026
Read Only Modes in Discourse Site Management read-only , explanation , how-to	11	2193	May 1, 2026