Documentation

Using Discourse Topics showing how to Discourse by reading and writing content, and navigating Discourse sites. (Index) Developer Guides Documentation about extending Discourse with plugins, themes, and theme components, working with the core code, and using the Discourse API. (Index) Integrations Documentation about connecting Discourse with other platforms and services. (Index) Contributing Guides on how to contribute to the Discourse open-source project. (Index) Self-Hosting Documentation and guides for people who self-host their Discourse sites. (Index) Hosted Customers Documentation and guides for people who run Discourse-hosted sites (Index) Migrating to Discourse Guides and advice on how to migrate your forum to Discourse. (Index) Site Management Documentation covering the configuration, moderation, and ongoing management of your Discourse community - useful for site owners, administrators, and moderators. (Index)

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Using service objects in Discourse Developer Guides	0	833	October 30, 2024
Backup discourse from the command line Self-Hosting backups , how-to	12	12391	July 23, 2026
How to run Discourse core, plugin and theme QUnit test suites Developer Guides how-to , code	0	2772	July 26, 2017
Admin guide to tags in Discourse Site Management reference , tags	11	31647	March 22, 2026
Pinning plugin and theme versions for older Discourse installs (d-compat branches) Developer Guides	6	1439	July 17, 2026
Objects type for theme setting Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	32	2253	April 13, 2026
Add settings to your Discourse theme Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	6	17304	July 8, 2025
What is CDCK/MoM? Hosted Customers ai	0	101	July 16, 2026
Edit a user preference for everyone or a subset of users Self-Hosting how-to	0	14030	February 12, 2015
Create and share a color scheme Developer Guides how-to	1	6402	August 1, 2025
Create and share a font theme component Developer Guides how-to , theme-guides	4	6060	August 19, 2025
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 6 - Add acceptance tests Developer Guides testing , plugin-guides , tutorial	32	17608	June 2, 2022
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 5 - Add an admin interface Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	46	26712	September 24, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 4 - Setup git Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	10	13179	January 30, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin Developer Guides plugin-guides , tutorial	32	83370	July 8, 2025
JavaScript type hinting & validation (typescript) Developer Guides	0	167	February 4, 2026
Auto-provisioning user accounts when SSO is enabled Integrations sso , how-to	0	173	April 3, 2026
How Discourse ID works Site Management discourse-id	23	2613	July 13, 2026
Deleting multiple users in bulk Site Management how-to , users	2	391	July 13, 2026
Beginner's guide to using Discourse Themes Site Management reference , customization	12	84805	July 9, 2026
Theme Developer Tutorial: 6. Using the JS API Developer Guides	3	1036	April 14, 2025
Using Plugin Outlet Connectors from a Theme or Plugin Developer Guides how-to , code	12	18831	October 14, 2024
Including your site in Discourse Discover Site Management how-to , discourse-discover	17	1027	July 7, 2026
Create a Salesforce lead via Zapier when a user signs up on Discourse Integrations how-to , zapier	0	2434	March 9, 2019
Automate sending Discourse invite emails with Zapier Integrations how-to , tasks , zapier	37	9695	May 3, 2024
Use the Zapier Discourse Zap Templates Integrations how-to , zapier	8	5223	July 8, 2022
Self-Hosting an OpenSource LLM for DiscourseAI Self-Hosting ai	12	3955	July 6, 2026
Set up Gemini API Keys for Discourse AI Integrations how-to , ai	1	841	July 4, 2026
Handling the "chain of trust" of the end user's real IP Self-Hosting docker , how-to	7	215	July 2, 2026
Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads Self-Hosting cdn , configuring , how-to , reference	265	49101	July 2, 2026