Documentation

Site Management Documentation covering the configuration, moderation, and ongoing management of your Discourse community - useful for site owners, administrators, and moderators. (Index) 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) 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
Creating and managing calendars Using Discourse calendar-and-event , how-to	14	2901	September 16, 2025
Contributing translations to Discourse Contributing translation , how-to	12	22426	September 15, 2025
Creating an auto responder automation Site Management automation , how-to	9	1466	September 15, 2025
Creating and managing events Using Discourse calendar-and-event , how-to	2	37567	September 15, 2025
Creating and managing polls Using Discourse how-to , polls	21	40268	September 15, 2025
Pinning plugin and theme versions for older Discourse installs (.discourse-compatibility) Developer Guides	3	1095	September 15, 2025
Customizing Discobot for your site Site Management discobot , how-to , customization	25	10709	September 15, 2025
Install Discourse on macOS for development Developer Guides dev-install , how-to	100	111377	September 13, 2025
Move your Discourse Instance to a Different Server Self-Hosting how-to , migrations	8	292258	September 12, 2025
Tips for Preventing Spam Site Management explanation , moderation , spam	10	4096	September 10, 2025
Developing Discourse on GitHub Codespaces Developer Guides	14	973	September 9, 2025
Install Discourse for development using Docker Developer Guides dev-install , docker , how-to	217	81230	September 8, 2025
Discourse AI - Large Language Model (LLM) settings page Site Management ai , how-to	19	2011	September 6, 2025
Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI Site Management ai , content-localization	20	714	September 5, 2025
Watched Words Reference Guide Site Management reference , watched-words , content	8	4723	September 5, 2025
Migrate a phpBB3 forum to Discourse Migrating to Discourse how-to	467	96398	September 4, 2025
Discourse AI - Spam detection Site Management moderation , spam , how-to , ai	21	1962	September 3, 2025
Discourse AI - Sentiment Site Management ai , content , ai-sentiment , how-to	12	5080	September 3, 2025
Set up reply by email with POP3 polling Self-Hosting how-to , email	1	302163	September 2, 2025
Helper - Auto caption Site Management ai-captions , how-to , ai	9	215	September 2, 2025
Discourse AI - Related topics Site Management ai , how-to , related-topics	13	2582	August 29, 2025
Designing for Different Devices (Viewport Size, Touch/Hover, etc.) Developer Guides	5	158	August 29, 2025
Including your site in Discourse Discover Site Management discourse-discover , how-to	11	569	August 29, 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	5	4836	August 29, 2025
Understanding user statuses, roles, and permissions Site Management reference , users	0	30425	November 2, 2015
Configuring wiki settings Site Management how-to , wiki-posts	1	19843	August 28, 2025
How Discourse ID works Site Management discourse-id	4	118	August 28, 2025
Configuring Twitter login and rich embeds for Discourse Integrations how-to , social-auth , sso	142	226221	August 28, 2025
Self-Hosting Sentiment and Emotion for DiscourseAI Self-Hosting ai-sentiment , ai	11	644	August 28, 2025
Write end-to-end system specs for the Discourse user interface Developer Guides	3	407	August 28, 2025