This guide explains how to create a whisper post in Discourse, including how to enable the feature and use it effectively.
Required user level: Users in whisper-allowed groups
Whispers are a feature in Discourse that allow for private discussion within a topic or personal message. This guide will walk you through enabling and using whispers.
Enabling whispers
Before whispers can be used, an administrator needs to enable them:
Go to your site settings
Find the whispers allowed groups setting
Add the groups you want to allow to use whispers
Once enabled, all members of the allowed groups can create and view whisper posts.
Creating a whisper
Start composing a new post
Click the reply toggle menu in the top left corner of the composer
Thank you SO much for this feature! It’s really helpful
May I suggest, please, that this could also be described as “staff notes” or “topic notes” or similar? I spent forever trying to find this functionality both in Google and in Discourse’s own search, but kept getting mislead to the User Notes plugin or similar things.
I just never though to search for something like this under the keyword “Whisper”, which makes it sound more like a 1-on-1 direct message.
Regardless, I’m so glad to have found it. Thank you!
Regardless, I’m really glad the functionality is here. I mostly just wanted to add this comment in case anyone else was searching for the same thing, and maybe this will help Google find it.