Discourse BBCode

[Discourse]

	Summary	Discourse BBCode adds the ability to use BBCode to format posts.
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	Repository Link	https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode

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This plugin is currently not compatible with the new Rich Text Editor composer. If you are using this plugin and experiencing issues, please use the toggle in the composer toolbar to switch to the Markdown editor, instead. Admins on sites that rely on the BBCode functionality can change the site’s default editor to Markdown using the default_composition_mode site setting.

Features

The Discourse BBCode plugin pulls in much of the BBCode syntax into Discourse.

Out-of-the-box: Discourse already supports [i], [b], [s], [u], [quote], [url], [email] and [code], this plugin fills in some more of the gaps to provide a more “BBCode” ™ experience.

It supports two types of constructs.

Multiline constructs, which encompass a block. Multiline constructs must never start or end in the middle of a line.

[right]
Like this example
[/right]

Configuration

Inline constructs

Inline constructs that can be embedded in paragraphs [s]like so[/s].

• [size=SIZE] : set the size of text

• [font=FACE]: set the font face for text

• [color=COLOR]: set the [color=#381]color[/color] of text [/li]

• [bgcolor=COLOR]: set background color of text

• [highlight]: Highlight text

• [small]: Make text very small

• [aname=NAME]: create an anchor in your document with a name

• [jumpto=NAME]: jump to anchor created with aname

Block level constructs

Lists

[list]
* item
* item
[/list]

or

[ol]
[li]this is a list item[/li]
[/ol]

or

[ul]
[*] this is an item
[*] this is **an** item
[/ul]

Text alignment

[center]
Center some text
[/center]

[right]
Right align some text
[/right]

[left]
Left align some text
[/left]

Careful with this plugin… It can easily be used for abuse by hiding text and making text unreadable, BBCode will make your markup less understandable

Last edited by @southpaw 2025-10-16T17:21:16Z

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