# Customizing the user welcome PM (Blog Links)
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-user-welcome-pm-blog-links/56791
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2월 2, 2017, 1:55오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-user-welcome-pm-blog-links/56791 "2017-02-02T13:55:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@mitchellk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mitchellk)
#### Post date: [2월 2, 2017, 1:55오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-user-welcome-pm-blog-links/56791/1 "2017-02-02T13:55:06Z")
Hi everyone, new to discourse so really still getting my head around tweaks all over the place. Only noticed now that the Welcome message a user gets sent includes references to:
> **[Discourse New User Tips and Tricks](https://blog.discourse.org/2016/12/discourse-new-user-tips-and-tricks/)**
>
> Getting going in an online community can be overwhelming, especially if you’ve never used the platform before. If you’re new to Discourse, here are a few quick tips and tricks to get you started:
and
> **[Understanding Discourse Trust Levels](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/)**
>
> The user trust system is a fundamental cornerstone of Discourse. Trust levels are a way of…
Is there an easy way to copy those articles / posts to my own site and not have users leaving my site and going to [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org)?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2월 2, 2017, 4:05오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-user-welcome-pm-blog-links/56791/2 "2017-02-02T16:05:01Z")
> [@mitchellk](#):
>
> Is there an easy way to copy those articles / posts to my own site and not have users leaving my site and going to [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org)?
You can customize the Welcome User Message to whatever you want 😉
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [2월 2, 2017, 7:48오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-user-welcome-pm-blog-links/56791/3 "2017-02-02T19:48:55Z")
You can get the raw markup with /raw/1234
Where 1234 is the topic ID at the end of the URL. (If memory serves.)
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [2월 2, 2017, 7:55오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-user-welcome-pm-blog-links/56791/4 "2017-02-02T19:55:54Z")
Correct - so the link to the raw markup of Jay’s post above is:
[https://meta.discourse.org/raw/56791/3](https://meta.discourse.org/raw/56791/3)
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### Author:  [@alehman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehman)
#### Post date: [3월 5, 2017, 8:52오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-user-welcome-pm-blog-links/56791/5 "2017-03-05T20:52:09Z")
I am having this issue as well. “Send welcome message” is checked. New users to not receive a welcome email or PM.
This is a new “one-click install” on Digital Ocean. All other emails including invitation emails seem to be working correctly.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [3월 6, 2017, 7:10오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-user-welcome-pm-blog-links/56791/6 "2017-03-06T19:10:24Z")
Around here the [Install Cloud](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md) instructions are recommended. Have you upgraded to a recent version of Discourse? The 1.6 version that gets installed with their one-click install is very old. It won’t upgrade from the browser, you’ll have to log in and
```plaintext
cd /var/discourse
git pull
./launcher rebuild app
```
And then you have to do it again because of an old version of Postgres.
Note that since their one-click install doesn’t create swap space, upgrades might fail due to lack of memory. (In the days of 1.6 you didn’t need swap if you had 2GB, but upgrades are more memory hungry now. The upgrade worked for me on a clean install, though.
You can check the mail logs for errors. It may be that the welcome message you expect wasn’t in 1.6.
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### Author:  [@alehman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehman)
#### Post date: [3월 7, 2017, 6:20오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-user-welcome-pm-blog-links/56791/7 "2017-03-07T18:20:26Z")
Thanks for the response. I did upgrade to the latest version right after I did the one-click install, and my dashboard shows 1.8.0beta5.
The problem seems to have disappeared now. The users I have created most recently have received welcome notifications and emails. I’m not sure what was going on it seems to be working now.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [3월 7, 2017, 6:48오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-user-welcome-pm-blog-links/56791/8 "2017-03-07T18:48:23Z")
> [@alehman](#):
>
> I did upgrade to the latest version right after I did the one-click install
Well, so much for the obvious. 🙂
I think that if you do a
```plaintext
cd /var/discourse
git pull
./discourse-setup
```
it’ll create the swap for you. (Being able to run `./discourse-setup` after `app.yml` existed was just added, hence the `git pull`.)
There was some similar recent problem that may have had to do with Sidekiq and/or memory.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [5월 10, 2019, 1:11오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-user-welcome-pm-blog-links/56791/9 "2019-05-10T01:11:52Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [9월 11, 2022, 8:44오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-user-welcome-pm-blog-links/56791/10 "2022-09-11T08:44:39Z")
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [9월 11, 2022, 9:29오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizing-the-user-welcome-pm-blog-links/56791/11 "2022-09-11T09:29:47Z")