Hello! I’m new to this awesome discourse world and I’ll appreciate any help. So I’ve installed discourse on digitaloccean. Now I would like to use sftp ( cause no option on Admin UI? ) to upload my badge images but I have no idea in what folder should I upload them. Btw I only have discourse insta…

The typical old-school way to do this is to post the images in a staff topic (make sure the topic is clear what it is for – a holding area for images referenced by your site design). Then you reference the images from the topic. But there might be better modern practices for this, related to assets…

Thanks Jeff but it will become messy and all are in 3x sizes. I’ll prefer to upload them on my server if possible. Any folder and/or variable we could use? Off: Congrats on your little cake badge :slightly_smiling_face: (is this a discourse default thing?)

We do have upload settings in themes, but there’s still some refinement we need to make to those. So, for now, the answer is still the same as described above. Upload your images in a staff topic and grab the URL. [image] cosdesign: it will become messy and all are in 3x sizes It won’t. Larg…

[image] Johani: Long term, we can potentially support type: upload for badge images and have a radio input that lets you switch between the icon picker for icons and the upload setting for images Yes I was thinking the same thing, it would be great to have the option to upload images directly…

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cosdesign (Cos) February 8, 2021, 10:26am 5

Yes I was thinking the same thing, it would be great to have the option to upload images directly from the badge page instead of typing the URL for the image. Meanwhile, yes I’ve uploaded all the badges in a private message sent to myself
Thanks!

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