Just to be certain, I’ve added a custom initializer file to the initializers folder, will this be picked up when the app starts? Cheers

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thanks, i’ve already created the plugin per the guide but it’s not clear where the initializer file should go? somewhere like this… plugins/my-plugin/config/initializers/initializer.rb or would the code just simply go in an after_initialize block in the plugin.rb file? Basically, i create a site…

I suggest you look at the source code of one of our plugins such as discourse-tagging for further examples if it’s not clear from the guides. Adding a site setting is covered in part 3 and no initializer is required.

Added custom initializer

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tgxworld (Alan Tan) April 18, 2016, 12:18pm 2

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Added custom initializer

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