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 groupssetting - 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
- Select “Toggle whisper”
Once you’ve toggled the whisper option, the composer will indicate that your reply will be a whisper. The indicators include:
- An eye-slash icon for the reply toggle menu button
- The normal “Reply” button is replaced with a “Whisper” button
- Text in the composer preview is italicized
Additional information
- Replying to a whisper will automatically bring up the composer with the whisper option toggled on.
- Whispers are permanent by default. You cannot convert a whisper to a normal post or vice versa.
- If you need to change a whisper to a normal post (or vice versa), you’ll need to delete the original post and create a new post.
- The Toggle Whisper theme component can be installed to allow converting between whispers and normal posts.
Last edited by @fzngagan 2025-07-22T11:33:47Z
Last checked by @hugh 2024-07-08T10:47:00Z
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