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## [Example Code in PHP how to Create a new User](https://meta.discourse.org/t/example-code-in-php-how-to-create-a-new-user/72186)

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**Author:** [@mertins-mir](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mertins-mir)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 16, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/example-code-in-php-how-to-create-a-new-user/72186 "2017-10-16T16:57:17Z")

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Hi all, I’ve got an existing User DB and I simply want to push the User into the discourse Forum. My programming language is PHP and I know how to use curl but are there any examples, how to push a new user into discour…

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## [Win10 keycap\_star.png emoji still broken](https://meta.discourse.org/t/win10-keycap-star-png-emoji-still-broken/62882)

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**Author:** [@lukescammell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lukescammell)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 17, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/win10-keycap-star-png-emoji-still-broken/62882 "2017-10-17T01:26:01Z")

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Continuing the discussion from 12 Broken Emoji per set: From a fresh git clone today /discourse/public/images/emoji/win10/keycap\_star.png is still 0 bytes.

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## [Retort plugin: emoji selector menu doesn't work on my site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/retort-plugin-emoji-selector-menu-doesnt-work-on-my-site/72012)

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**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [October 17, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/retort-plugin-emoji-selector-menu-doesnt-work-on-my-site/72012 "2017-10-17T02:53:32Z")

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Weirdly, on my site when I insert an emoji, I am unable to click on the menu to switch to different sections of the picker. I can scroll through and see that e.g. the tree turns green when I am looking at nature, but I c…

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## [Search auto-complete should assist in finding posts by deactivated users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-auto-complete-should-assist-in-finding-posts-by-deactivated-users/72278)

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**Author:** [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 17, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-auto-complete-should-assist-in-finding-posts-by-deactivated-users/72278 "2017-10-17T14:28:47Z")

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When a user has been deactivated, they can no longer be @mentioned in a post (the pop-up does not help with auto-completion). This makes sense to a large degree, as that user will not be notified. (That said, it could …

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## [What plugins do you use - and why?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-plugins-do-you-use-and-why/71904)

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**Author:** [@outofthebox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofthebox)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 17, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-plugins-do-you-use-and-why/71904 "2017-10-17T14:41:05Z")

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Hi, I’m curious what plugins established Discourse forum owners are using - and why. It’d be interesting to understand not only what plugin(s) you use, but what purpose you use it for. Hopefully this sparks some new ide…

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## [Global statistics on how the number of pageviews correlate to the earnings from ads shown](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-statistics-on-how-the-number-of-pageviews-correlate-to-the-earnings-from-ads-shown/72271)

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**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 17, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-statistics-on-how-the-number-of-pageviews-correlate-to-the-earnings-from-ads-shown/72271 "2017-10-17T15:13:51Z")

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Any global statistics on how the number of pageviews correlate to the earnings from ads shown? Will it make any sense to display advertisements for 200k pageviews / month, or will it bring just cents / a few dollars per …

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## [Drupal 7 Migration Questions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/drupal-7-migration-questions/71539)

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**Author:** [@j127](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j127)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [October 17, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/drupal-7-migration-questions/71539 "2017-10-17T19:29:52Z")

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Has anyone imported Drupal 7 passwords into Discourse? This is one area where I’m stuck on my migration. I found this plugin and this info, but am not sure how to modify it for Drupal 7. If I don’t migrate the password…

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## [Discourse not working through separate nginx docker](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-not-working-through-separate-nginx-docker/72071)

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**Author:** [@Rourke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rourke)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 17, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-not-working-through-separate-nginx-docker/72071 "2017-10-17T22:25:16Z")

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I’m trying to install discourse on my server with Ubuntu Server 16.04, where I’m already running a docker compose file with nginx. All containers in my docker file are on a separate network. I followed this guide mostly.…

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## ["Search" keyboard shortcuts conflicts with Polish diacritics input](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286)

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**Author:** [@Miszo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Miszo)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286 "2017-10-18T01:23:19Z")

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Hi! First, thank you for creating such a great software and community! But to the point: When I type (and it’s the way everyone in Poland types it) Polish diacritics “ś” on my keyboard by pressing right alt + s, search …

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## [How to disable e-mail notifications?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-e-mail-notifications/72298)

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**Author:** [@Sevosik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sevosik)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-e-mail-notifications/72298 "2017-10-18T12:41:47Z")

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How can I disable email alerts for new answers to topics/traced forums? I expect that with a bigger traffic I will be too easy to exhaust the limit of e-mail messages I have with the Polish email provider EmailLabs. I …

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## [Emoticon button not working anymore (because of babble plugin)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticon-button-not-working-anymore-because-of-babble-plugin/72325)

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**Author:** [@Sylvain7](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sylvain7)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2017, 1:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoticon-button-not-working-anymore-because-of-babble-plugin/72325 "2017-10-18T13:53:07Z")

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Since the last update ( v1.9.0.beta13 +31) , the emoticon button is not working anymore (it doesn’t trigger anything on click)

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## [UX of copying to clipboard the link to a post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ux-of-copying-to-clipboard-the-link-to-a-post/26342)

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**Author:** [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ux-of-copying-to-clipboard-the-link-to-a-post/26342 "2017-10-18T14:21:26Z")

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Story: desktop user wants to share a link to a post via a channel of their choice. Right clicking the “link” icon doesn’t work, because the element is a button. The user has to left click the “link” icon, then right…

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## [Maintaining User Lists in Closed Community](https://meta.discourse.org/t/maintaining-user-lists-in-closed-community/72296)

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**Author:** [@DMRF](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DMRF)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/maintaining-user-lists-in-closed-community/72296 "2017-10-18T14:33:18Z")

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Hello, We’re in the process of launching a community on Discourse. Since the nature of the community is generally religious, our stakeholders seem intent on having a very closed membership (keeping the conversation in t…

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## [Sortable Tables in Wiki-Style Posts?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sortable-tables-in-wiki-style-posts/27810)

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**Author:** [@BrettBoval](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BrettBoval)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sortable-tables-in-wiki-style-posts/27810 "2017-10-18T14:48:38Z")

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Is it possible to have sortable tables for wiki-style posts? This may be outside the scope of the “civilized discussion” mandate, but would be useful as an common information source that is built at the beginning of the …

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## [Issue with Emoji Picker due to Babble plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-emoji-picker-due-to-babble-plugin/72356)

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**Author:** [@barreeeiroo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barreeeiroo)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-emoji-picker-due-to-babble-plugin/72356 "2017-10-18T17:58:14Z")

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Hi :wave: In my community, I can’t see the emoji picker when hitting the emoji button on the creatr topic/reply box or the Retort button I assume that there is an issue with plugins, but I don’t know which one as none …

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## [Getting a post from its ID](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-a-post-from-its-id/72362)

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**Author:** [@Mike4](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mike4)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-a-post-from-its-id/72362 "2017-10-18T18:39:16Z")

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I’m trying to get info about a post using: curl -X GET "https://discourseExampleSite.com/posts/21?api\_key=\<api key\>&api\_username=\<api username\> Although it gives me the entire html tag. I know the post exists because …

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## [Setup email for development?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-email-for-development/62787)

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**Author:** [@Radulf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Radulf)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-email-for-development/62787 "2017-10-18T20:06:49Z")

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I’m currently setting up my discourse and am currently still using the development version as I still want to create some plugins. Now, I want to setup my email for the forum but do not know how I can do that in the deve…

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## [Is discourse 'stateless'?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-stateless/72380)

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**Author:** [@iamphi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iamphi)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-stateless/72380 "2017-10-18T23:55:08Z")

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I’ve identify these 3 components for my discourse forum hosted with AWS, behind an Elastic Load Balancer. A) web server (nginx/unicorn/RoR/redis). EC2 instance B) file storage. S3 C) postgres db. RDS. Is the A compon…

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## [Notification menu: merge green and blue notification bubbles into just blue](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-menu-merge-green-and-blue-notification-bubbles-into-just-blue/72219)

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**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [October 19, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-menu-merge-green-and-blue-notification-bubbles-into-just-blue/72219 "2017-10-19T02:08:54Z")

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In this same conversation with a colleague, she told me she was confused by the green and blue notification bubbles. She could not figure out what the colors represent, and she was especially confused because she had alo…

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## [Drupal 7 migration to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/drupal-7-migration-to-discourse/72311)

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**Author:** [@Vanina\_Yordanova](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vanina_Yordanova)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 19, 2017, 7:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/drupal-7-migration-to-discourse/72311 "2017-10-19T07:23:14Z")

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Hello, I need to migrate around 1500 topics from a Drupal forum to Discourse. I am creating a website in wordpress. I am using SSO, which means once a user logged in in my website he/she will automatically log in to th…

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## [How to make category selector sideways via css](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-category-selector-sideways-via-css/72363)

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**Author:** [@Bank\_Live](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bank_Live)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [October 19, 2017, 7:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-category-selector-sideways-via-css/72363 "2017-10-19T07:37:57Z")

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Hello @rewphus I like a categories at you make in website. http://tidbits.io I want to make same categories from example pictures. I can it how to make. Thank you very much. :grinning:

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## [Category colours](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-colours/72403)

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**Author:** [@sianwhite](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sianwhite)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 19, 2017, 10:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-colours/72403 "2017-10-19T10:39:04Z")

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As problems to have go, this isn’t a big one at all, but it’s driving me nuts nonetheless. I am trying to change our forum’s categories. I have renamed the existing ones, and need to create a couple more. When I create…

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## [Is there a time limit on sidekiq jobs (from a plugin)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-time-limit-on-sidekiq-jobs-from-a-plugin/72381)

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**Author:** [@eriko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eriko)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 19, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-time-limit-on-sidekiq-jobs-from-a-plugin/72381 "2017-10-19T16:14:18Z")

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I know that sidekiq removed the timeout functionality long ago so I am wonder if there is something else that does that limits the run time of jobs. Here is what I am doing and what I am experiencing. I have two jobs t…

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## [API fetch most recent posts for a topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-fetch-most-recent-posts-for-a-topic/72421)

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**Author:** [@Reid\_Van\_Melle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Reid_Van_Melle)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 20, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-fetch-most-recent-posts-for-a-topic/72421 "2017-10-20T01:20:22Z")

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I’ve read all of the discussions about using the API to fetch all of the posts for a particular topic using the post\_ids from the stream. However, I cannot seem to find anything that would allow me to fetch the most rece…

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## [How do I change the look of the category labels?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-change-the-look-of-the-category-labels/72432)

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**Author:** [@Amar\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Amar_Kumar)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 20, 2017, 9:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-change-the-look-of-the-category-labels/72432 "2017-10-20T09:10:23Z")

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I have been trying to search the web for an easy method on how to change the categories label so it looks a little better than they do now. I would basically like to configure my forum to have colourful categories li…

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## [Ability to EXCLUDE in security settings](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-exclude-in-security-settings/72413)

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**Author:** [@robmc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robmc)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 19, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-exclude-in-security-settings/72413 "2017-10-19T12:54:26Z")

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Is there any chance that the Security settings for categories might enable an admin to say who CAN’T access it rather than just who can? For example; Group A is All Users, and Group B is a small group of specialists (…

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## [Notify moderators when a user reaches TL3](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-moderators-when-a-user-reaches-tl3/67071)

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**Author:** [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Replies:** 22\
**Last updated:** [October 20, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-moderators-when-a-user-reaches-tl3/67071 "2017-10-20T14:43:06Z")

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At the moment, Discourse notifies users when they reach Trust Level 3 (via the Regular Badge), but there isn’t an equivalent notification for site staff. By the default requirements, TL3 users are very active users of th…

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## [Adding custom class to img tag](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-custom-class-to-img-tag/21425)

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**Author:** [@mpteng](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpteng)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 20, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-custom-class-to-img-tag/21425 "2017-10-20T14:43:50Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Suggestion: borders for images: Is there a way to add a class to the img tag that would then allow me to easily add this optionally? For example, if I could do something like: \<img src=“/…

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## [Multiple templates per category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiple-templates-per-category/72478)

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**Author:** [@communitygal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/communitygal)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [October 20, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiple-templates-per-category/72478 "2017-10-20T15:17:58Z")

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I see we can create a template in a category. Just wondering if it’s possible to create a few different templates for a category? thanks, Emma

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## [Limiting @mentions to groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/limiting-mentions-to-groups/72465)

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**Author:** [@jackhadley91](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jackhadley91)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [October 20, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/limiting-mentions-to-groups/72465 "2017-10-20T16:57:34Z")

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We have a number of independent groups in our Discourse who shouldn’t have visibility of members in other groups. I’ve created categories for each group to which only they have access/visibility, which works fine. Howev…

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