# Latest **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1711 [Latest](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/tags.md) **Page:** 1712 --- ## [Reinstate Staff Category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reinstate-staff-category/52232)
**Author:** [@lxk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lxk)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reinstate-staff-category/52232 "2017-02-12T17:05:25Z")
Short and silly, our staff category was deleted a while ago, is there any (non backup) way to restore this or manually re-create? Can I squeeze the tables back in from a vanilla backup? The automated nginx reports have … --- ## [Request: Customisable Digest colors and URL parameters](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-customisable-digest-colors-and-url-parameters/57254)
**Author:** [@DiscourseMetrics](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DiscourseMetrics)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2017, 11:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-customisable-digest-colors-and-url-parameters/57254 "2017-02-12T11:09:57Z")
I’d love to be able to: Customize the background color and link color used in the digests so it matches the rest of my site Add a hardcoded or customisable suffix to the URLs in the emails like “?utm\_campaign=digest” s… --- ## [Setting up a cluster?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-cluster/23032)
**Author:** [@yanosz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yanosz)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-a-cluster/23032 "2017-02-12T05:42:39Z")
Hei folks, I’d like to setup a cluster (two nodes running discourse) for high availibitly and load balancing. How do setup such a cluster? Thanks, Jan --- ## [JSON link array does not match link order in post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/json-link-array-does-not-match-link-order-in-post/57205)
**Author:** [@samnazarko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/samnazarko)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/json-link-array-does-not-match-link-order-in-post/57205 "2017-02-12T03:36:47Z")
Hello We are using Discourse to power our Wiki. It’s been working pretty well. Since updating to 1.7 we’ve run in to a slight snag. It seems that the ordering of the links to other Wiki pages is not necessarily respecte… --- ## [\[PAID\] Membership plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-membership-plugin/57000)
**Author:** [@BokiBoki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BokiBoki)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-membership-plugin/57000 "2017-02-11T21:36:51Z")
What would you like done? Hi, I’m looking for someone who can create plugin that will make the board paid-members-only and process payments via 2checkout. --- ## [Refactor MessageBuilder to put mail footer 'action links' always in signature?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/refactor-messagebuilder-to-put-mail-footer-action-links-always-in-signature/57212)
**Author:** [@rriemann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rriemann)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2017, 7:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/refactor-messagebuilder-to-put-mail-footer-action-links-always-in-signature/57212 "2017-02-11T07:06:58Z")
Hello, I recently had a look into message\_builder.rb to check out how the last few lines of most mails are generated: \[mail body\] --- \[Visit Topic\](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-enable-piwik-analytics-on-discour… --- ## [How should Discourse System Market itself?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-discourse-system-market-itself/57221)
**Author:** [@xiasummer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xiasummer)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-discourse-system-market-itself/57221 "2017-02-11T03:24:45Z")
It seems that someone is trying to popularize the forums based on discourse. What’s this company? Who is marketing? --- ## [Email not sending out after installation. I need help please](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-not-sending-out-after-installation-i-need-help-please/57211)
**Author:** [@elmurph](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elmurph)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-not-sending-out-after-installation-i-need-help-please/57211 "2017-02-10T23:23:46Z")
I think I have just reached my highest level of frustration with configuring mailgun :frowning:. Please I need help. This is my problem: I installed discourse successfully after several failed attempt with configuring … --- ## [Position of "Reply" button to the right](https://meta.discourse.org/t/position-of-reply-button-to-the-right/49573)
**Author:** [@Chopper](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chopper)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/position-of-reply-button-to-the-right/49573 "2017-02-10T16:45:29Z")
The Reply button is push to the left when user is not connected, it would be more efficient if he was push to the right I think. --- ## [Message if you don't have enough space for installation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-if-you-dont-have-enough-space-for-installation/56667)
**Author:** [@JohnGinger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JohnGinger)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/message-if-you-dont-have-enough-space-for-installation/56667 "2017-02-10T14:24:45Z")
I had problems installing because there wasn’t enough space on the virtual machine for discourse, I tried to have a look to see if this is an existing issue but I can’t find anything. How easy would it be to add a quick… --- ## [Set topic tag from email-in?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-topic-tag-from-email-in/57207)
**Author:** [@sizeof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sizeof)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-topic-tag-from-email-in/57207 "2017-02-10T13:37:33Z")
Hi there, Since there’s no option to set topic tag through ‘email-in’, is it possible to set the topic tag simply by using a tag inside the text? I think we can assume that if the tag is in the text then the text is ab… --- ## [Plugin with custom gems](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-with-custom-gems/57190)
**Author:** [@leo.proctor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/leo.proctor)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-with-custom-gems/57190 "2017-02-10T13:48:02Z")
I’ve some custom gems in my plugin. it works fine on local machine. but on prod while following your app.yml format for installing private plugins, it fails with following error. I, \[2017-02-09T17:13:20.015101 #13\] IN… --- ## [Link a rails object/model to discourse so that a new topic is created when an object is created](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-a-rails-object-model-to-discourse-so-that-a-new-topic-is-created-when-an-object-is-created/57191)
**Author:** [@Mie\_Goreng](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mie_Goreng)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-a-rails-object-model-to-discourse-so-that-a-new-topic-is-created-when-an-object-is-created/57191 "2017-02-10T03:58:22Z")
If I have an Article model in Rails with attributes title, image and content are there any existing plugins that would allow me to create a new topic in discourse using these attributes? --- ## [Canonical tag on topic URL](https://meta.discourse.org/t/canonical-tag-on-topic-url/57057)
**Author:** [@CosM](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CosM)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/canonical-tag-on-topic-url/57057 "2017-02-07T18:18:50Z")
Hi , Google the past few weeks is complaining about URL errors . Figured out that the content of e.g some.forum.com/topic-title/topic-number?page=4 contains 20 posts, from 60th to 80th. So assuming that this topic has… --- ## [Send official warning to multiple recipients](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-official-warning-to-multiple-recipients/45583)
**Author:** [@TechnoBear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TechnoBear)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2017, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-official-warning-to-multiple-recipients/45583 "2017-02-10T08:09:57Z")
It is currently not possible to send an official warning to more than one recipient. Adding a second recipient removes the “This is an official warning.” checkbox, even if it’s already been checked. There are odd occas… --- ## [Can't forward an email to a group & preserve the content](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-forward-an-email-to-a-group-preserve-the-content/42897)
**Author:** [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2017, 7:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-forward-an-email-to-a-group-preserve-the-content/42897 "2017-02-10T07:13:45Z")
Continuing the discussion from Category not accepting "anonymous email" from known users: On a similar note, I tried to forward an email from the user having problems to a different email alias that was mapped to the Gr… --- ## [Discourse and CommonMark](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-commonmark/25410)
**Author:** [@ky\_metro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ky_metro)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-commonmark/25410 "2017-02-09T21:51:25Z")
Continuing the discussion from Discourse doesn’t follow the CommonMark spec for HTML tags inside code spans I’ve wondered about this for awhile now. They aren’t that far off, but there are differences I know that wil… --- ## [Updating and saving topic on button press results in 404 not found](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-and-saving-topic-on-button-press-results-in-404-not-found/56922)
**Author:** [@Janno\_Liivak](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Janno_Liivak)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-and-saving-topic-on-button-press-results-in-404-not-found/56922 "2017-02-09T20:50:48Z")
I have a plugin which places a button after main buttons. When pressing a button I would like to update topic and save it. But topic.save(props); results in 404 not found. Debugging reveals that Discourse is trying to PU… --- ## [Google wrongly treats the topics tags as breadcrumbs, because Discourse marks them so](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-wrongly-treats-the-topics-tags-as-breadcrumbs-because-discourse-marks-them-so/56944)
**Author:** [@dmitry\_fedyuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dmitry_fedyuk)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-wrongly-treats-the-topics-tags-as-breadcrumbs-because-discourse-marks-them-so/56944 "2017-02-09T18:13:55Z")
The tags should not be marked as a topic’s breadcrumbs. Only the categories should be marked as a topic’s breadcrumbs. --- ## [Block PMs from certain users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/block-pms-from-certain-users/19593)
**Author:** [@Matches](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Matches)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/block-pms-from-certain-users/19593 "2017-02-09T16:18:50Z")
Feature request: Block a specific user from PMing you. --- ## [Composer: incomplete uploads not checked on saving](https://meta.discourse.org/t/composer-incomplete-uploads-not-checked-on-saving/57169)
**Author:** [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/composer-incomplete-uploads-not-checked-on-saving/57169 "2017-02-09T15:48:09Z")
Composer doesn’t check if an image upload is complete when you hit create or Reply, so the post just ends up with: Uploading… --- ## [Digist/Summary E-Mail - Topic Algo](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digist-summary-e-mail-topic-algo/57157)
**Author:** [@Slind](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Slind)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digist-summary-e-mail-topic-algo/57157 "2017-02-09T15:00:16Z")
Hi there, I was wondering how the summary works. The way I understand it is that it looks at all threads/posts that have been created during the last 7 days and based on some magic algo it picks the most interesting one… --- ## [Propose do not apply the posting limitations (like "min length", "entropy", "not uppercase") to the administrators](https://meta.discourse.org/t/propose-do-not-apply-the-posting-limitations-like-min-length-entropy-not-uppercase-to-the-administrators/57155)
**Author:** [@dmitry\_fedyuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dmitry_fedyuk)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2017, 11:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/propose-do-not-apply-the-posting-limitations-like-min-length-entropy-not-uppercase-to-the-administrators/57155 "2017-02-09T11:39:59Z")
Related to this: I can't use a 3 character title I think, an administrator should be allowed to do everything (maybe with a warning, but without prohibition). --- ## [Vanilla2 Import - no avatars, no pdf attachments](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vanilla2-import-no-avatars-no-pdf-attachments/35650)
**Author:** [@buzzdev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/buzzdev)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vanilla2-import-no-avatars-no-pdf-attachments/35650 "2017-02-09T03:29:32Z")
Hello Discourse, i’ve imported my existing Vanilla2 forum using the Vanilla2export.php and RAILS\_ENV=production ruby script/import\_scripts/vanilla.rb /shared/export.csv However user avatars and attachments were not … --- ## [Post cook for images?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-cook-for-images/57148)
**Author:** [@fearlessfrog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fearlessfrog)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-cook-for-images/57148 "2017-02-09T03:09:58Z")
I have a very simple plugin (server-side) I was playing around with. For this part of the call: on(:post\_created) do |post, params| I use the post.raw to put some content in: post.raw = "@#{post.user.username} says h… --- ## [\[PAID\] WordPress theme + Discourse combo for a site relaunch](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-wordpress-theme-discourse-combo-for-a-site-relaunch/57100)
**Author:** [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-wordpress-theme-discourse-combo-for-a-site-relaunch/57100 "2017-02-09T02:27:24Z")
What would you like done? The Digital Impact Alliance at the United Nations Foundation is looking for someone to re-theme one of their WordPress web sites at http://digitalprinciples.org/ as well as deploy a matching com… --- ## [I can't use a 3 character title](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-use-a-3-character-title/57145)
**Author:** [@dmitry\_fedyuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dmitry_fedyuk)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2017, 12:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-use-a-3-character-title/57145 "2017-02-09T00:04:43Z")
--- ## [When to unlist, make private message, close, and delete](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-to-unlist-make-private-message-close-and-delete/57098)
**Author:** [@bradydowling](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bradydowling)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-to-unlist-make-private-message-close-and-delete/57098 "2017-02-08T23:57:51Z")
Sometimes it’s tough to tell what action to take when you don’t want/need your whole community seeing a certain post. Anyone have general rules of thumb for when you perform each action within your community? --- ## [Visual diagraming to add visual dimension to Conversations?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/visual-diagraming-to-add-visual-dimension-to-conversations/57123)
**Author:** [@diogocsc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/diogocsc)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/visual-diagraming-to-add-visual-dimension-to-conversations/57123 "2017-02-08T22:31:38Z")
I’ve been finding that many people these days prefer visual communication, and I was just about starting to go and write another text-based topic when it suddenly popped… How great would it be if I could represent what … --- ## [Suddenly all CDN links are https rather than http, what happened?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suddenly-all-cdn-links-are-https-rather-than-http-what-happened/56015)
**Author:** [@snakeninny](https://meta.discourse.org/u/snakeninny)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suddenly-all-cdn-links-are-https-rather-than-http-what-happened/56015 "2017-02-08T18:05:06Z")
Hi, I have no idea when this happened but I guess it was after some upgrade, all uploaded images were no longer http but https. I’ve talked to my CDN ISP but they said it was discourse that made the change. Is that so?… [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1710) [Next page](https://meta.discourse.org/latest.md?page=1712)