Documentation

Site Management Documentation covering the configuration, moderation, and ongoing management of your Discourse community - useful for site owners, administrators, and moderators. (Index) Contributing Guides on how to contribute to the Discourse open-source project. (Index) Using Discourse Topics showing how to Discourse by reading and writing content, and navigating Discourse sites. (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
Contributing to Discourse development Contributing reference	5	62462	July 13, 2025
Moderation flags Site Management how-to , configuring	1	473	July 11, 2025
Watched Words Reference Guide Site Management reference , watched-words , content	7	4471	July 11, 2025
Setup DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso) Integrations sso , configuring , discourseconnect , how-to	33	446018	July 10, 2025
Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI Site Management ai , content-localization	2	90	July 10, 2025
Forum Researcher AI Persona guide Site Management ai-bot , how-to , ai	11	307	July 10, 2025
Discourse SEO overview (sitemap / robots.txt ) Site Management seo , explanation	1	1676	June 7, 2025
Set up file and image uploads to S3 Self-Hosting configuring , how-to	33	118360	July 9, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	32	79657	July 8, 2025
Add settings to your Discourse theme Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	6	16466	July 8, 2025
Log back in as admin after locking yourself out with read-only mode or an invalid SSO configuration Site Management how-to , read-only	4	4693	July 8, 2025
Calculating "Top" topics in Discourse Using Discourse reference , interface	2	1996	July 8, 2025
Developing Discourse using a Dev Container Developer Guides	6	6734	July 8, 2025
Customizing the topic list Developer Guides	0	468	February 4, 2025
Write end-to-end system specs for the Discourse user interface Developer Guides	0	307	September 11, 2024
Discourse AI - AI triage Site Management how-to , ai , automation	49	4215	July 7, 2025
Discourse AI - Embeddings Site Management ai , ai-search , related-topics	25	5609	July 7, 2025
Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript Integrations embedding , how-to	112	297795	July 7, 2025
What is a staff user on hosted Discourse? Hosted Customers explanation	0	4568	March 21, 2019
Posting code or preformatted text Using Discourse how-to	4	4806	July 3, 2025
Discourse AI - AI search Site Management ai-search , ai , how-to	9	2402	July 2, 2025
Discourse AI - Summarize Site Management ai , ai-summarize , how-to	42	6885	July 2, 2025
Adding users to groups through custom field automation Site Management groups , automation , how-to , user-custom-fields	17	1477	July 2, 2025
Configuring Activity Summary emails Site Management email , reference , activity-summary	6	22171	June 30, 2025
Printing a topic as a PDF Using Discourse how-to , interface	23	3636	June 30, 2025
House Ad Templates Site Management how-to , advertising	28	10275	June 27, 2025
Searching for content effectively Using Discourse search	9	2950	June 26, 2025
Repackaging a markdown-it extension as a Discourse plugin Developer Guides explanation , plugin-guides	1	2246	June 26, 2025
Pre-launch checklist for migrated Discourse communities Migrating to Discourse	0	120	March 14, 2025
Install Discourse on Windows for development Developer Guides dev-install , how-to	14	70203	June 22, 2025