Hi everyone, I have set up a ranking system with custom titles, but as you know, Discourse doesn’t have a built-in way to assign a default title to all new users. So, I created a workaround where: New members are in Group 1 Active members are in Group 2 And so on… The method I used is as follows…

@xkhalid I’ve put together a quick plugin (also my first!) that: Assigns a title to new users Changes the title to the corresponding one with their Trust Level. E.g. TL1 → TL2: users get the TL2 title now, instead of the TL1 title. Updates user titles every 12 hours (plans to make the frequenc…

Maybe it’s possible by creating custom automation for Discourse Automation & Create custom Automations , but I don’t know how it works.

You can achieve this with a custom automation script using the User Event and User Promoted Event triggers. When a new user is created (User Event) or their trust level changes (User Promoted Event), you can trigger a script to automatically assign them a title based on their trust level.

Thanks @jahan_gagan ! any help to make this script ?

Wow! Nice hacking! :clap: It does seem unfortunate that some group settings are not available for the automated groups like trust levels. It should be possible to set the user title based on the trust level group they are in but it is not. You could try doing this using the badge system. Create a …

Would a theme component that added this info to the post/user card be more flexible? That way users can still use the title field for other things as intended (badges, group identifiers, something custom you may want to add), and having it added by a theme component would mean they couldn’t change/r…

Hi, I’m trying to implement this using the badge system automation, but I’m facing a limitation. To run the user_group_membership_through_badge script, I must specify a group. However, I already use the default system groups: Trust Level 1, 2, 3, 4. These groups are built-in and cannot be selected…

Thanks ! After I add this to app.yml - git clone https://github.com/NateDhaliwal/add-title-based-on-trust-level.git and rebuild, I encountered a 502 Bad Gateway error. Any solution? For now, I’ve removed it from app.yml and everything works well.

Huh, odd. IIRC that error may sometimes appear after a rebuild, but waiting it out will solve it (or another rebuild).

Yeah, I know — but this issue only happened after I added the Git repo and rebuilt. It gave me this error. However, I’ll try it again later. What about this issue? Could it be related? [image]

Automatically Assigning Titles Based on Trust Level in Discourse

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xkhalid August 2, 2025, 12:42pm 19

I want to thank @NateDhaliwal for his plugin !

https://github.com/NateDhaliwal/add-title-based-on-trust-level

It was very helpful ! and the title updated every 12 hours.

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