I’m currently setting things up for my community and am doing quite a bit of copywriting (lots of first, second, third and fourth drafts… :sweat_smile: ). Some of the content is starting to look decent, but there are bits and pieces that still need to be finalised. For example, I’ll write a note “include screenshots for detailed steps” because I’m not going to do the screenshots now. Or “need to decide if we keep this paragraph here or move it to the top”. Is there a feature/plugin/something in Discourse that can help me keep track of all these “copyediting notes” I’m leaving all over the place? (And extra question: is there a way, when we’ll be ready to go live, to “purge” edit history for a topic and remove responses that were back-and-forth about the work in progress cleanly?) Thanks!

[image] stephtara: Is there a feature/plugin/something in Discourse that can help me keep track of all these “copyediting notes” I’m leaving all over the place? Perhaps you can bookmark them with a custom label? You can also set a reminder.

[image] stephtara: is there a way, when we’ll be ready to go live, to “purge” edit history for a topic and remove responses that were back-and-forth about the work in progress cleanly? Yes: [image] As for the responses, you mean replies, as post? Then sure you can remove posts, unless I misunderstood something.

[image] Canapin: Then sure you can remove posts, unless I misunderstood something. I was under the impression that when you removed replies it remained visible that a reply was there at some point and had been removed. Not the case? Thanks for your responses! Bookmarking is an idea but I think I maybe also just need to highlight the places in the topics where the notes are to make them visible at a glance. Some of the topics (documents) are longish…

[image] stephtara: Not the case? Only admin and moderators can see that posts were deleted :slight_smile: But I think you refer to the “(This post was deleted …])” you sometimes see, those posts, deleted by their author, are removed after 24h (can be changed in settings).

[image] stephtara: I maybe also just need to highlight the places in the topics where the notes are to make them visible at a glance Do you want those highlights public or private? If public, you can use . If private, you can use a [wrap] that will highlight text only for admins/moderators/yourself with a bit of CSS, but that might not be what you’re looking for.

[image] Canapin: Do you want those highlights public or private? If public, you can use . for the moment public is fine!! Thanks… I’ll try that. [image] Canapin: If private, you can use a [wrap] That could come in handy, what is a Wrap content

[image] stephtara: That could come in handy, what is a Wrap content Yeah sorry that was a bit vague: you can customize content using special tags to which you add custom CSS rules: [image] Customize posts' contents with your own styles Developer Guides Requirements information_source To be able to use these tips and tricks, you need to be an administrator of either a self-hosted Discourse instance or a Discourse-hosted plan higher than Basic. Introduction Discourse supports several methods to format and customize a post’s contents. You can find the list here: But sometimes, you’ll want something more specific, for example, a link that looks like a button. [Green button] This is the kind of modification we’ll learn here. The logic I’l…

Oh perfect! Going to dust off my 20-year-old CSS skills :sweat_smile:

If you wish to have inline notes in posts, you could use footnotes, perhaps? Then simply remove them and hide the edit history like what Canapin said above.

Oh, footnotes? How does that work? Sounds like a good idea!

Is there a way to track topic content that I'm marking as "will require future editing"?

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) February 15, 2026, 6:21pm 3

Yes:

As for the responses, you mean replies, as post? Then sure you can remove posts, unless I misunderstood something.

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Is there a way to track topic content that I'm marking as "will require future editing"?

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