I’m new to administering a Discourse forum, so pardon this question. I’m considering installing about 10 plugins listed at https://github.com/discourse/all-the-plugins/tree/master/plugins onto our new Discourse site. Before I go ahead and install them, I’m wondering if there are any ‘gotchas’ that…

Have you read through this? [afbeelding] Install plugins on a self-hosted site Self-Hosting warning This guide assumes that you have a self-hosted standard installation. We only support the standard method of install here, so these instructions assume you have a standard …

@ondrej , thnx for the link. Is it possible to install plugins from the Admin Plugin UI or does this have to be done by editing the app.yml file?

I’m beginning to see a bit of a trend in the admin aspects of Discourse. It appears that the forum admin controls many parameters that a server admin role is usually responsible for, and here there is a need for ssh access to the server. Unfortunately, this is not always possible, nor desirable fo…

[afbeelding] nap: I’m wondering if there are any ‘gotchas’ that I should be aware of If they aren’t official, then there is some chance that they’ll break when you upgrade. Yes, you’ll need ssh access to install plugins. Even with discourse_docker, which will let you upgrade without ssh acce…

Desirable or not, that’s how Discourse is built and runs. Discourse isn’t a website, it’s a Javascript application, and that application is built from the app.yml. Plugins are pulled down during that build process. If you dislike the delineation and it’s going to have an operational impact I would…

Advice on Installing Plugins

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ondrej 21 juni 2020 om 18:20 2

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