# Latest

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## [Category Badge Styles](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-badge-styles/285320)

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**Author:** [@Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Discourse)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-badge-styles/285320 "2025-04-18T18:24:35Z")

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:discourse2: Summary Category Badge Styles replaces the functionality of the deprecated category\_style admin setting :eyeglasses: Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator (box) Preview on Discourse Theme…

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## [How are you using AI/LLMs to create themes/components/plugins?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-are-you-using-ai-llms-to-create-themes-components-plugins/362401)

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**Author:** [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-are-you-using-ai-llms-to-create-themes-components-plugins/362401 "2025-04-18T16:05:30Z")

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When ChatGPT and LLMs were first getting popular, I tried to create Discourse theme components and plugins using AI and found them severely lacking, but I haven’t tried since. Have you been using AI to write code to mod…

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## [Add scroll-lock when search results appears on mobile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-scroll-lock-when-search-results-appears-on-mobile/361857)

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**Author:** [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-scroll-lock-when-search-results-appears-on-mobile/361857 "2025-04-18T15:59:35Z")

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Hello :waving\_hand: I think It would be a good idea to add the scroll-lock class to prevent page scrolling when the search on mobile is scrollable. Thanks :slightly\_smiling\_face:

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## [How do I find a person on Discourse?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/como-encuentro-a-una-persona-en-discourse/362330)

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**Author:** [@Rafalex1788](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rafalex1788)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/como-encuentro-a-una-persona-en-discourse/362330 "2025-04-18T15:53:59Z")

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I’m new to Discourse and want to search for users. The magnifying glass in the top right corner doesn’t let me search for users.

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## [\[PAID\] Need help with the Vote button, tags display, and a subcategory list customization](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-need-help-with-the-vote-button-tags-display-and-a-subcategory-list-customization/362492)

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**Author:** [@Helga\_Razinkova](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Helga_Razinkova)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-need-help-with-the-vote-button-tags-display-and-a-subcategory-list-customization/362492 "2025-04-18T13:31:45Z")

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Hi everyone! I hope someone could help us implement the following ideas. What would you like done? ▶ Wishlist: Make Vote button float when scrolling ▶ Wishlist: Implement Statuses of Requests as Buttons ▶ Wishlist: Displa…

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## [Any alternative way to connect to email service then SMTP (on Digital Ocean)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-alternative-way-to-connect-to-email-service-then-smtp-on-digital-ocean/362434)

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**Author:** [@Denis\_Didkovsky](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Denis_Didkovsky)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-alternative-way-to-connect-to-email-service-then-smtp-on-digital-ocean/362434 "2025-04-18T13:22:57Z")

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Is this the only way of connecting as SMTP ports are being blocked by provider (Digital Ocean) and their support doesnt respond to the ticket. (I see several requests like Proposed changes to discourse-setup because Dig…

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## [Unable to paste list of domains in group auto-add](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-paste-list-of-domains-in-group-auto-add/356985)

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**Author:** [@putty](https://meta.discourse.org/u/putty)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-paste-list-of-domains-in-group-auto-add/356985 "2025-04-17T15:35:35Z")

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We’re trying to auto-add users to a group via a domain, but I’m having trouble adding multiple domains at once (for context we’re hoping to add 850+ domains). I’m able to enter them in one by one, but I’m having trouble …

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## [Setting to disable logging username/IP for (self-)delete user log lines](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-to-disable-logging-username-ip-for-self-delete-user-log-lines/214390)

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**Author:** [@Hooksmith](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hooksmith)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2025, 7:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-to-disable-logging-username-ip-for-self-delete-user-log-lines/214390 "2025-04-18T07:17:48Z")

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Currently when a user self-deletes their Discourse account, the log line shows the IP and username of that user: We’d rather not store if we can help it for GDPR purposes. If the user deletes their Discourse account, …

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## [Landing page plugin issue - Pages are not working after Rebuild](https://meta.discourse.org/t/landing-page-plugin-issue-pages-are-not-working-after-rebuild/361519)

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**Author:** [@Steve\_John](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steve_John)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 7:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/landing-page-plugin-issue-pages-are-not-working-after-rebuild/361519 "2025-04-12T07:17:44Z")

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We are getting this error after Rebuild All of the discourse. Not sure, what was changed all the pages were working fine before rebuild. Not sure, if any one else faced issue which recent rebuild ----------------Below …

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## [Mass Assigning Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mass-assigning-tags/362457)

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**Author:** [@DonBot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DonBot)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2025, 6:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mass-assigning-tags/362457 "2025-04-18T06:20:18Z")

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Is there any way I can mass-assign tags? I don’t want to necessarily bulk assign the same tag to many topics, but I want to add different tags to different topics at once. Kind of like editing topic’s tags via a spreadsh…

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## [Wrap=placeholder not working on Horizon theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wrap-placeholder-not-working-on-horizon-theme/362369)

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**Author:** [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2025, 4:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wrap-placeholder-not-working-on-horizon-theme/362369 "2025-04-18T04:13:06Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Setup Multisite Configuration with Let's Encrypt and no Reverse Proxy: Placeholders seem not to be working? \[wrap=placeholder key="two" description="Subdomain of first multisite site" de…

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## [GJS component fails with "undefined helper" error when shown via modal service (Discourse 3.5.0](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gjs-component-fails-with-undefined-helper-error-when-shown-via-modal-service-discourse-3-5-0/362272)

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**Author:** [@SubStrider](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SubStrider)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2025, 4:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gjs-component-fails-with-undefined-helper-error-when-shown-via-modal-service-discourse-3-5-0/362272 "2025-04-18T04:15:20Z")

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encountering a persistent rendering error when trying to display a Glimmer component (.gjs) as a modal using this.modal.show(). The modal is triggered from another GJS component added to the post menu via the post-menu-b…

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## [Set up BackBlaze S3 with BunnyCDN](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-backblaze-s3-with-bunnycdn/159135)

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**Author:** [@Bill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bill)\
**Replies:** 34\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-backblaze-s3-with-bunnycdn/159135 "2025-04-17T22:47:28Z")

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It took me forever to figure out how to do all of this, so I wanted to make this guide to make it easier for people. Serving your images this way is supposed to make your website load faster. My Discourse setup combines …

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## [How do I get certain header features to also show when logged-in](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-certain-header-features-to-also-show-when-logged-in/361961)

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**Author:** [@joshhabka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joshhabka)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-get-certain-header-features-to-also-show-when-logged-in/361961 "2025-04-17T19:01:52Z")

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It shows the translation buttons when logged, out - I also want it to show the Translate button when logged in on the header. Logged Out Image: Logged-in Image:

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## [Discourse Launcher Failed to Bootstrap](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-launcher-failed-to-bootstrap/362293)

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**Author:** [@Pepemosu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pepemosu)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-launcher-failed-to-bootstrap/362293 "2025-04-17T17:56:19Z")

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Hello. I’ve been trying to migrate our current Discourse server and am trying to do a fresh install on our new VPS, but using our App config bootstrap was failing with a weird error. I tried bootstrapping from scratch w…

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## [DigitalOcean blocking SMTP and forcing SendGrid usage](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-blocking-smtp-and-forcing-sendgrid-usage/357535)

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**Author:** [@MachineScholar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MachineScholar)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digitalocean-blocking-smtp-and-forcing-sendgrid-usage/357535 "2025-04-17T17:48:20Z")

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I’m not sure exactly where to post this, but I am wondering if anyone else has been experiencing this. I followed the official installation guide using DigitalOcean and Mailgun. But I recently noticed that I have a lot o…

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## [Can I receive the notifications that would normally go to another user?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-receive-the-notifications-that-would-normally-go-to-another-user/361292)

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**Author:** [@noahl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/noahl)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-receive-the-notifications-that-would-normally-go-to-another-user/361292 "2025-04-17T14:44:25Z")

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One of our team is moving on to a new opportunity at a new company. We want to leave their profile ‘as is’ within the forum as they’ve contributed to a lot of discussions - that said, we want to make sure that any repli…

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## [Unintuitive IPv6 address search in Screened IPs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unintuitive-ipv6-address-search-in-screened-ips/362118)

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**Author:** [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 16, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unintuitive-ipv6-address-search-in-screened-ips/362118 "2025-04-16T16:33:23Z")

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It’s not very easily possible to search for an IPv6 address in Screened IPs: Contrast this with the IPv4 behaviour: Maybe if we detect we only have a partial address we can do a simple string comparison as …

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## [Single community with multiple sub-communities](https://meta.discourse.org/t/single-community-with-multiple-sub-communities/361252)

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**Author:** [@RachFeverBee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RachFeverBee)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/single-community-with-multiple-sub-communities/361252 "2025-04-17T14:35:46Z")

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I have a client who wants to host a single, branded community with three sub-communities. Has anyone done this successfully? Would Groups or Categories work best? The sub-communities will need to be uniquely branded, w…

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## [Improve linking back to original post from Mastodon](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-linking-back-to-original-post-from-mastodon/361921)

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**Author:** [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-linking-back-to-original-post-from-mastodon/361921 "2025-04-17T13:24:16Z")

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One issue I see often with First Post / Note publications is that the OP is posted without a title and that its first external link will be populated as a onebox and end up getting more attention than the author intended…

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## [API, create user, no longer returns user\_id](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-create-user-no-longer-returns-user-id/343427)

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**Author:** [@clayg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/clayg)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-create-user-no-longer-returns-user-id/343427 "2025-04-17T13:22:56Z")

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I have a script that runs daily to create new users via the API. Up until a few days ago, when the post would complete, the response included the user\_id of the newly created user. Now the API no longer does so? But the …

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## [Handling Avatar load issues](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-avatar-load-issues/362323)

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**Author:** [@jrack](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jrack)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-avatar-load-issues/362323 "2025-04-17T12:43:48Z")

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So we use the oidc plugin, but the avatar\_url requires auth and the current avatar download support when provided by the plugin doesn’t know to use a cached access\_token to fetch. Adding that feels pretty big in my head…

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## [LetsEncrypt error when rebuilding forum](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letsencrypt-error-when-rebuilding-forum/361846)

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**Author:** [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letsencrypt-error-when-rebuilding-forum/361846 "2025-04-17T10:53:07Z")

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See this error: I, \[2025-04-14T12:47:09.997719 #1\] INFO -- : \> if \[ -z "$LETSENCRYPT\_ACCOUNT\_EMAIL" \]; then echo "LETSENCRYPT\_ACCOUNT\_EMAIL ENV variable is required and has not been set."; exit 1; fi I, \[2025-04-14T12:…

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## [Cookieyes LCP and Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cookieyes-lcp-and-discourse/362043)

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**Author:** [@Olle11](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Olle11)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 10:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cookieyes-lcp-and-discourse/362043 "2025-04-17T10:24:25Z")

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Hi everybody, I chose Cookieyes as a cookie banner on my forum since I thought that the cookie banner looked reasonable and GDPR aligned. However it seems that it is heavily effecting my site due to several seconds of L…

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## [Profile text is yellow](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-text-is-yellow/362037)

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**Author:** [@Olle11](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Olle11)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 10:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-text-is-yellow/362037 "2025-04-17T10:23:45Z")

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Hi, When I enter another users profile on my forum the text where it says “Joined” “Last post:” “Seen” “Views” is yellow for som reason so it is barely seen due to the white background. Everything else looks good. Anyo…

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## [Access admin settings, plugins etc via search?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/access-admin-settings-plugins-etc-via-search/300821)

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**Author:** [@jrgong](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jrgong)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/access-admin-settings-plugins-etc-via-search/300821 "2025-04-17T09:37:12Z")

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Hey guys It would be great if all or certain admin and mod features and procedures (like plugins, settings, theme-components, etc) would be accessible via regular search Basically that would add a sort of “spotlight or…

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## [Is Discourse still optimized for SEO?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-st-il-optimise-pour-le-seo/362281)

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**Author:** [@Nawak2025](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nawak2025)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 9:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-st-il-optimise-pour-le-seo/362281 "2025-04-17T09:30:24Z")

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Hello! Everything is in the title, and also, can discourse be used as a comment engine on a WordPress please? Thank you ^^

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## [Is it possible to increment pageviews manually?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-increment-pageviews-manually/362253)

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**Author:** [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 7:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-increment-pageviews-manually/362253 "2025-04-17T07:56:49Z")

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I’ve started showing forum pages via my custom app, but every time I show a topic I want to increment the page view for that topic (and overall stats) in accordance with the usual Discourse method. Is there a way to do t…

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## [Plugin or Script to Automatically Interlink Content?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-or-script-to-automatically-interlink-content/362262)

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**Author:** [@joshhabka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joshhabka)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 7:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-or-script-to-automatically-interlink-content/362262 "2025-04-17T07:55:58Z")

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Is there a plugin or theme component or a script that can use Discourse AI or something to either automatically edit a user’s post to add a link section of similar posts or reply to a topic and link to other topics for S…

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## [How to create a custom activity tab in user profile?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-a-custom-activity-tab-in-user-profile/361047)

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**Author:** [@SubStrider](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SubStrider)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 7:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-a-custom-activity-tab-in-user-profile/361047 "2025-04-17T07:33:06Z")

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I was dabbling with plugin development and while I have been able to make the plugin settings appear on the admin settings page, I am not quite sure how to make the UI elements to appear on the discourse UI. If someone …

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