Hi all, I need a way for my administrators/moderators to add private metadata to posts and topics. For instance, a custom field note, Moderator adds a note to a post “This post may be controversial” administrators can see/edit note users can’t see Is there any plugin for this? Or one simple that…

I think that should help: ▶ Whispers in Discourse: Use and Best Practices AI

Thanks, but metadata that I want needs to be associated to a user post, so I don’t think that works.

[image] HandSpy_v3: administrators can see/edit note users can’t see [image] Discourse User Notes Plugin discourse2 Summary Share private notes with other staff about a user that normal users cannot see. open_book Install Guide This plugin is b…

Like @ondrej said as I was writing this, there is Discourse User Notes , but that attaches notes to users, not posts. If you want staff notes to be added to a post, I think you’ll need another plugin.

[image] pfaffman: that attaches notes to users, not posts I was thinking about adding the note to the post as opposed to the user as when you add a note to a post, it shows the the post the note was added on. But then again you are indeed correct… it is a user note plugin. [image] If the u…

[image] HandSpy_v3: Thanks, but metadata that I want needs to be associated to a user post, so I don’t think that works. I understand. For me, it was a workaround, and then I continued using it. The workflow is completely different, so maybe you want to post it as Contribute > Feature or to …

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HandSpy_v3 (HandSpy v3) June 8, 2025, 6:39pm 7

Thanks all, I think I’ll modify this plugin to my needs as I can’t find any doing what I need

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