The discussion revolves around using a form to create topics in Discourse, particularly for a personals page where standardized topics are desired. nullset seeks a way to let users fill out a form that generates a new topic with predefined text and category. HAWK suggests exploring topic templates, while Thamer supports the idea for organizing forum content. davidkingham recommends the Custom Wizard Plugin as a solution, providing a visual example and linking to guides here. Thamer confirms installing the plugin but struggles with setup. nullset reports a white screen issue when attempting to create topics, prompting HAWK to request more details, such as console errors. Falco adds that Experimental Form Templates are now available, offering another potential path.
Hi, i have been reading up and down and searched a lot and i am looking for a way to let users fill out like a form with a few set fields and then this will generate a new topic with added text.
The usage will for a personals page almost where each topic will be a personals ad, i have seen other webpags doing this but i am using wordpress now and has just started using Discourse and i see more and more ways to use Discourse rather than slow plugins in wordpress.
Hi Theo,
There isn’t a way to do exactly what you describe, but you should investigate topic templates.
Hi Theo, your idea sounds really interesting, I was thinking about doing something similar in my forum. A form to create a topic would help to standardize our topics, organizing the forum in a way.
Please let me know if you find something that will be useful for you in this terms and I will try to use it here.
Best,
You can use the Custom Wizard Plugin 🧙 to do exactly this. Here’s a look at one I’m currently working on:
Hey @davidkingham, thanks for your reply.
I already installed Custom Wizard Plugin and I am trying to find a step by step to starting creating wizards. I tried creating one for test, but it seems to not be working.
Best,
Have you reviewed the guides here? Pavilion
Hi, i am also trying to get it to make topic with a certain text in a certain category, but all i get is a white screen ?
What am i doing wrong
You’ll need to give some more details here. Is there a console error?
Now we have Introducing Form Templates
