I looked at almost 100 Customization > Plugin for something that is non-moderated and is for text, like footnotes but I couldn’t find anything!

Most of these work: [image] Markdown Cheat Sheet | Markdown Guide A quick reference to the Markdown syntax.

Could you please elaborate on the effect you are trying to achieve and where?

On a forum, I want to have special effects in text, like footnotes.

You don’t need any additional software. Discourse supports Markdown, and you can do: This is a footnote[^1], I hope you like it! [^1]: This is the first footnote. In a Post. Which gives: [image]

[image] Robert: You don’t need any additional software. [image] Sunny Yates: I don’t want additional software Like Robert said, you don’t need additional software.

You can also install the BBCode Plugin for some additional effects. [image] Discourse BBCode Plugin information_source Summary Discourse BBCode adds the ability to use BBCode to format posts. discourse2 Hosted by us? This plugin is available on our Ent…

Is it okay if I test some of the Markdown Cheat Sheet options here to see what they look like?

yes you can but the mods may call time

test here [image] Discourse Demo Demonstration sandbox for Discourse

I need help on special effects

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ssityeghd (Sunny Yates) February 18, 2024, 2:04pm 5

I don’t want additional software. I already know footnotes. I want something similar to footnotes. Like commands you can do like < big > < small > < ins > < del >
similar commands like those.

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I need help on special effects

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