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## [One user can't visit my forum and there's an error in the logs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-user-cant-visit-my-forum-and-theres-an-error-in-the-logs/178413)

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**Author:** [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 6, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-user-cant-visit-my-forum-and-theres-an-error-in-the-logs/178413 "2021-02-06T01:47:53Z")

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Hi, My forum’s always working well, however, one person can’t visit it. She has an error 500 and there’s this message in Discourse’s logs: 2:21 pm ActionView::Template::Error (No route matches {:action=\>"show", :contr…

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## [Benefits of the who's online plugin?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/benefits-of-the-whos-online-plugin/165583)

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**Author:** [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 11:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/benefits-of-the-whos-online-plugin/165583 "2021-02-05T23:30:01Z")

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Hi, I’ve been using this plugin for 2 years on my low activity forum. My belief is that seeing there are people online now is an incentive for visitors to sign up and post because they can see that they are currently p…

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## [How do I see Facebook signups?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-see-facebook-signups/91989)

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**Author:** [@Openmind](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Openmind)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 10, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-see-facebook-signups/91989 "2018-07-10T15:37:21Z")

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Hi, is there any way to see who of my new forum sign-ups have used the Facebook login/sign-up plugin? Many thanks, Torsten

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## [Forum does not work for users on iOS](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-does-not-work-for-users-on-ios/178605)

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**Author:** [@10ColorsTenkara](https://meta.discourse.org/u/10ColorsTenkara)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-does-not-work-for-users-on-ios/178605 "2021-02-05T21:58:43Z")

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I am currently running the latest version of Discourse. Users of my forum who try to access with an iPad or iPhone cabot do anything on the forum. All links are broken for them. I searched here on meta and couldn’t find …

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## [Optional filtered replies view](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optional-filtered-replies-view/178578)

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**Author:** [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optional-filtered-replies-view/178578 "2021-02-05T20:24:48Z")

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We have been testing a new flow for filtering replies here on meta. This has been in core for a few weeks now, and it can be enabled on any up-to-date Discourse site using the enable filtered replies view site setting. …

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## [Cannot disable 2FA for User](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-disable-2fa-for-user/178474)

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**Author:** [@Brandon\_Martus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Brandon_Martus)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 7:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-disable-2fa-for-user/178474 "2021-02-05T19:56:39Z")

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We have a user with 2FA enabled, and we cannot disable it for them. Clicking the ‘Disable’ button on their account gives us: (You supplied invalid parameters to the request: Discourse::InvalidParameters) There is n…

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## [Control who can join my forum](https://meta.discourse.org/t/control-who-can-join-my-forum/178581)

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**Author:** [@EricJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricJ)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/control-who-can-join-my-forum/178581 "2021-02-05T18:13:56Z")

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I’m researching forum software. I would like to be able to limit who can join my forum. Basically, a way to approve users or only allow certain domains. Can Discourse do this?

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## [Subscriptions: Add pagination to admin subscriptions view](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subscriptions-add-pagination-to-admin-subscriptions-view/172500)

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**Author:** [@Jonathan\_Reyes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan_Reyes)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subscriptions-add-pagination-to-admin-subscriptions-view/172500 "2021-02-05T17:58:14Z")

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Just an FYI, there doesn’t seem to be any pagination on the /admin/plugins/discourse-subscriptions/subscriptions view. I see the first few subs even though we have hundreds.

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## [Images are not visible in post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-are-not-visible-in-post/178242)

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**Author:** [@Thanh\_Lê\_Minh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Thanh_L%C3%AA_Minh)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-are-not-visible-in-post/178242 "2021-02-05T17:53:32Z")

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Hello friends ! I am new to Discourse for the first time, so I do not have much experience. Hope you can help me display images in the article. Currently it is experiencing the following error: Thank you!

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## [Add additional text to every email explaining why the user received that email](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-additional-text-to-every-email-explaining-why-the-user-received-that-email/178457)

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**Author:** [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 5:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-additional-text-to-every-email-explaining-why-the-user-received-that-email/178457 "2021-02-05T17:25:20Z")

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This message appears on emails sent to those with mailing list mode set. It would be good if other explanatory messages could be added, eg “You are receiving this because you are ‘watching’ the first post in new topics …

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## [Redirect my old telligent forums thread to new discourse thread](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-my-old-telligent-forums-thread-to-new-discourse-thread/177708)

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**Author:** [@Varun\_Kumar1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Varun_Kumar1)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirect-my-old-telligent-forums-thread-to-new-discourse-thread/177708 "2021-02-05T16:59:08Z")

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Hi All, I have my old Telligent forums and now I have moved to Discourse. I would like to redirect my old Telligent forums thread and post to the Discourse forums thread. We have done the data migration from Telligent t…

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## [Publishing DB backups without exposing users private information](https://meta.discourse.org/t/publishing-db-backups-without-exposing-users-private-information/177175)

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**Author:** [@leandrodimarco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/leandrodimarco)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/publishing-db-backups-without-exposing-users-private-information/177175 "2021-02-05T16:30:16Z")

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At bitcoincashresearch.org we are looking to offer a certain level of decentralization of the forum, including the possibility that anyone who considers it necessary could rebuild a given instance of the forum in another…

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## [Can you add Naver search html meta tag in header?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-add-naver-search-html-meta-tag-in-header/178566)

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**Author:** [@boldy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/boldy)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-you-add-naver-search-html-meta-tag-in-header/178566 "2021-02-05T16:18:42Z")

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greeting from seoul In Korea, the search portal naver.com has more market share than google. I’m trying to register my site on Naver, There are two ways. Upload the html file to the root folder or You need to copy t…

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## [Decrypting user-api-key payload after login](https://meta.discourse.org/t/decrypting-user-api-key-payload-after-login/178567)

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**Author:** [@a\_developer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/a_developer)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/decrypting-user-api-key-payload-after-login/178567 "2021-02-05T16:11:27Z")

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I have been trying to obtain the User-Api-Key for a third party login by decrypting the payload, after making the call to user-api-key/new on the iOS platform. The problem with that is the base64 decode goes fine, but t…

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## [How can i rebuild discourse without changing version?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-rebuild-discourse-without-changing-version/142233)

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**Author:** [@Pekkanen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pekkanen)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-rebuild-discourse-without-changing-version/142233 "2021-02-05T14:53:02Z")

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I need to update the smtp settings in app.yml, but I do not want to change the version of discourse. When I specify a version via the version tag, the rebuild fails with the error below. I am currently on version 2.4.0.…

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## [How to get user's badges number?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-users-badges-number/178550)

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**Author:** [@cosdesign](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cosdesign)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-users-badges-number/178550 "2021-02-05T14:06:40Z")

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Hello! Is it possible to get in some js code or maybe an existing variable, the total number of badges a user has already collected? The code could fit perfectly inside .topic-avatar .poster-avatar-extra and I’m pretty s…

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## [How do I move my s3 upload bucket from one provider to another?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-move-my-s3-upload-bucket-from-one-provider-to-another/178484)

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**Author:** [@seeminglee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seeminglee)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-move-my-s3-upload-bucket-from-one-provider-to-another/178484 "2021-02-05T13:48:16Z")

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I have setup my upload bucket originally on AWS, but I want to now use Linode. Setup went well and I can see that images are being uploaded to the Linode already. However, when I look at the old posts, they are still po…

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## [Merge Users borked?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merge-users-borked/178529)

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**Author:** [@Paul\_King](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Paul_King)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 12:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merge-users-borked/178529 "2021-02-05T12:36:32Z")

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After successfully updating my discourse installation from beta 2.7 beta 2 to 2.7 beta 3 just now, I tried a ‘merge users’, for a user who has only made 270 odd posts between his two accounts. 45 minutes later, website …

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## [How to order topics by created\_at ASC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-order-topics-by-created-at-asc/178517)

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**Author:** [@rieko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rieko)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-order-topics-by-created-at-asc/178517 "2021-02-05T12:01:43Z")

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I’m trying to order topics in a category by created ascending. Top must be an oldest topic. How can I do that?

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## [A badge for reading time?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-badge-for-reading-time/178482)

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**Author:** [@cosdesign](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cosdesign)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 10:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-badge-for-reading-time/178482 "2021-02-05T10:00:37Z")

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Hello! I came across the codecademy community and saw that they have 3 badges based on how much time a member spent reading. Does anyone have any idea how we could create a badge like that? So far I made this badge i…

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## [Discourse Loading Time](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-loading-time/89914)

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**Author:** [@outofthebox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofthebox)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 9:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-loading-time/89914 "2021-02-05T09:17:29Z")

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Hi, What is the Discourse team’s approach to how quickly Discourse loads? The spark for the discussion is that Google will be using site speed as a ranking factor for mobile searches starting in July - https://webmaste…

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## [Is it possible to use theme component from local folder (as plugin) - for local development?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-theme-component-from-local-folder-as-plugin-for-local-development/171983)

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**Author:** [@4ong](https://meta.discourse.org/u/4ong)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 8:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-theme-component-from-local-folder-as-plugin-for-local-development/171983 "2021-02-05T08:32:43Z")

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To work on a custom theme component I want to reload it from the local folder without an installation process from git or .tar. Is it possible? Which path/folder should I use? Thanks!

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## [Install a slideshow on my home page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-a-slideshow-on-my-home-page/178512)

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**Author:** [@PaulinaMX](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PaulinaMX)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 6:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-a-slideshow-on-my-home-page/178512 "2021-02-05T06:25:43Z")

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What would you like done? First, I do not know if it is possible to do what I want, install that slideshow on my home page, before accessing my forum, obviously the images and text would change, and make it adaptable fo…

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## [Admin only tags, plus required tags?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-only-tags-plus-required-tags/91868)

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**Author:** [@stub](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stub)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [July 10, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-only-tags-plus-required-tags/91868 "2018-07-10T03:02:04Z")

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OK. Let’s Talk Tags. I have 3 very specific questions which I need solutions too. Is it possible to have only admin created tags? With all user creation of tags totally disallowed? Is it possible to insist that any…

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## [How did I earn the Welcome badge twice?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-did-i-earn-the-welcome-badge-twice/178438)

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**Author:** [@PeterPalov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PeterPalov)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 5:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-did-i-earn-the-welcome-badge-twice/178438 "2021-02-05T05:48:19Z")

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I earned Welcome badge 2 times And I didn’t see that it says “You can earn this badge multiply times”. Is this a bug or it’s okay?

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## [Wiki topic review process](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-topic-review-process/178441)

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**Author:** [@edgarriba](https://meta.discourse.org/u/edgarriba)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 5:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-topic-review-process/178441 "2021-02-05T05:12:00Z")

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Hi ! I love the idea of having wiki-topics where anyone can edit. In our case we have the forum in public. Which mechanism does Discourse provide similar to a review process when someone propose a change in a topic ? W…

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## [Custom CSS isn't applied to my Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-css-isnt-applied-to-my-discourse/178241)

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**Author:** [@hlissner](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hlissner)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 4:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-css-isnt-applied-to-my-discourse/178241 "2021-02-05T04:55:28Z")

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As of yesterday’s update (of my hosted server at https://doomemacs.discourse.group), none of my custom CSS is applied. Changes to my theme(s) or components’ CSS have no effect (though changes their \<head\> or other HTML s…

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## [Cloud hosting goes into read-only mode twice in two days](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloud-hosting-goes-into-read-only-mode-twice-in-two-days/178502)

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**Author:** [@aristedes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aristedes)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 4:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloud-hosting-goes-into-read-only-mode-twice-in-two-days/178502 "2021-02-05T04:47:19Z")

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Our new open source community here: https://oncourse.discourse.group/ has now gone into read only mode twice in two days. Yesterday it was for about an hour, and now it has back in read only mode for the last hour and st…

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## [How to inject HTML code in the head only on home and post pages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-inject-html-code-in-the-head-only-on-home-and-post-pages/178449)

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**Author:** [@Idan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Idan)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 3:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-inject-html-code-in-the-head-only-on-home-and-post-pages/178449 "2021-02-05T03:23:57Z")

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Hi, I wanted to know if there is a way to inject an HTML code to the \<head\> section, only in the home page and post pages? Thank you.

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## [Watched Words Notification setting enquiry](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-words-notification-setting-enquiry/178493)

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**Author:** [@A\_moderator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/A_moderator)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watched-words-notification-setting-enquiry/178493 "2021-02-05T02:07:13Z")

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Hi Discourse Meta Team @neil We have released a soft launch for our Forum using discourse and we are ‘live testing’ mode. We are looking for guidance about editing the notification function in Watched Words, specifical…

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