Hello World, I came across Discourse in another community forum I use and realized that it may have the possibility for a project I want to work on. I have crawled around the Meta forum here researched the capabilities and read a variety of articles. What I have not found is any getting started guides, etc.. Can anyone guide or link me where to. Where should I start? A basic install guide? Discourse capabilities and limits How do the components work together? is there a master list of Plug-Ins and Themes?

If You’re installing discourse on example.com then you have to verify & use example.com not discourse.example.com

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md Start there. Everything else is here on meta, browse by category.

This guide specifies using discourse.example.com for install. Can I just use the domain example.com or can I change the subdomain to widget.example.com ?

You can use anything as long as it is a FQDN E.g. Domain.tld My.domain.tld This.is.my.domain.tld

So in this document discourse/docs/INSTALL-email.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub where is states the following Please note that in any email provider, you must verify and use the subdomain, e.g. discourse.example.com . If you verify the domain only, e.g. example.com , mail will not be configured correctly. Do I still need to use the sub-domain if I am not using that in the install?

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HAWK (Hawk) May 14, 2018, 8:27pm 3

Hey there,
All the guides etc are in the howto category.

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