As title. I like it like that, simple. If I buy the pro plan I will start my community with this theme without any custom works ? Thanks guys !

Welcome to Meta :wave: This forum offers a few themes (you can change which one you see with the theme toggle at the bottom of the sidebar or in your preferences). The Foundation theme (I think that may be the one you mean) is one of the 2 themes that are installed by default. The second one is Horizon.

I forgot to ask: is it easy to get Discourse translated in French? Just a file to upload or something similar? Thanks.

In general, it’s easier to start different topics for different questions. Then both can have a title that describes what it’s about, and it’s more likely someone knowing the answer will read the topic and reply. The Discourse interface is translated to French, currently about 94%. You rarely see 100% because new features, and with them new texts, are added almost daily. Everyone can help to translate Discourse. There is also a translation agency working on adding missing translations and ensuring consistent translations. These translations are part of Discourse, you don’t need a separate file, and new translations are also included in the Discourse updates. Admins can also change any text in their forum, so if a specific text is quite important for your community and has not yet been translated, you can immediately change it by customizing the text.

Discourse est déjà traduit en français, si toute votre communauté est française vous n’aurez qu’a changer le paramètre “default locale” à “French” et le tour sera joué :wink:

Thanks both. I come from XenForo, I use it for years, I don’t have any community right now but I’m thinking of creating a new one. And it will most likely be with Discourse…

Est-ce qu’il est possible de modifier les traductions au cas par cas ? J’ai parcouru une discussion qui parle de la traduction française de Discourse Quality of French Translations (qui est effectuée par une agence maintenant) mais je me demandais si chaque administrateur de forum pouvait facilement depuis le tableau de bord traduire des expressions selon son désir. Merci.

You can customise pretty much any site text for your own community :partying_face: Hopefully this guide should help: [image] Customize text in Discourse Site Management bookmark This is a guide for customizing text in Discourse via the admin interface, enabling changes to various UI elements. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator In Discourse, you can customize all of the text via the admin interface. This can be useful for tailoring the user experience to better fit the particular tone or branding of your community. Summary This guide will cover: Accessing the text customization interface Editing text strings Identifying translatio…

Is Discourse community use the basic theme?

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You can customise pretty much any site text for your own community

Hopefully this guide should help:

Topic		Replies	Views
Translated FAQ, ToS and Privacy Policy Product Support	7	2214	March 19, 2019
Difficulty translating certain fields in reddit-ish theme Product Support translation	9	372	September 9, 2024
FYI, Full translation of Discourse including posts is possible Extras	6	529	November 1, 2024
Translate some Entries Product Support	4	2200	January 25, 2016
Not sure how to juggle languages while setting up my francophone community Product Support translation , content-localization	4	254	December 9, 2025

Is Discourse community use the basic theme?

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