# Custom Platform

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-platform/336090
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [November 14, 2024, 8:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-platform/336090 "2024-11-14T08:48:22Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2024, 2:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-platform/336090/11 "2024-11-14T14:29:04Z")

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> [@JstTan](#):
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> I’m planning to build a platform on top of a self-hosted Discourse instance that will include various custom features like a search engine, documentary resources, wikis, and more.

Those all sound like things that Discourse has already.

> [@JstTan](#):
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> My goal is to integrate these custom pages directly into the Discourse forum so that they appear as native pages rather than posts, creating a seamless user experience where they feel like an integral part of the forum.

The easiest way to do that is to just host them somewhere else and add links to them with a theme component and have that site themed to look the same as your Discourse site. People don’t notice URLs, so if you keep the navigation on the other sites such that people can get back to Discourse, then it Just Works and nothing fancy is required.

> [@JstTan](#):
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> I’d like these static pages to be accessible to forum users, with all JavaScript functionalities running as intended.

I"m not quite sure what that means, but if you really want to add whatever your custom features are to Discourse then you’ll need to create them as plugins or theme compononents.

> [@JstTan](#):
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> Would published page be suitable for my aim through?

It’s not clear what your aim is.

> [@JstTan](#):
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> if there are specific plugins, best practices, or configurations that I should look into?

- [Discourse Doc Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doc-categories/322376)
- [Configuring wiki settings](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configuring-wiki-settings/30802)
- [Discourse Algolia Search](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-algolia-search/73517), [Search Banner](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-banner/122939), [Baidu Search](https://meta.discourse.org/t/baidu-search/170283)

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