Hello there and welcome here! In this training, you’ll learn to become a Discourse Support Advocate and be able to confidently support one or multiple active Discourse communities/instances.
If you are new to this training, be sure to have read Discourse Support Training Program to understand how this training program works. Feel free to reply to this topic to ask questions if anything is unclear.
To complete this training, your tasks should you choose to accept them are below, you’ll share a link to your Discourse sandbox instance where you did your configurations and other links where applicable, along with a reply of your ticked-off tasks, to mark this as completed. Be sure to have completed all the Discourse Support Enthusiast tasks.
If you’ve already done this set of tasks within the last 6 months, feel free to reply with all tasks ticked and a note mentioning this.
To see your progress with respect to the contributions to the #bug and #feature categories, just search for your username and the category in https://meta.discourse.org/search. So for @itsbhanusharma’s contributions to the #feature category, he’d search for: Search results for ‘@itsbhanusharma #feature’ - Discourse Meta.
Don’t click the checkboxes in this main post, make a copy of the following task lists into a new reply by Use template as reply button! If you do this, you can check off the items in your reply as you complete them.
Read, understand, and have applied where necessary all of the #getting-started and #contributing guides, and any of the #configuring guides
Answer #support topics with 10 replies marked as solutions
Reproduce 50 #bug requests to check their validity
Give helpful contributions to 60 topics across the different categories here in Meta, categories like #feature, #plugin, #bug, and others
Configure a complex Discourse integration in your installed sandbox, this integration could be either of the following:
- WordPress integration
- Patreon integration
- Auth/SSO integration like OAuth 2 or OpenID auth integration or any of the #official auth-plugins
- Chat integration
- Subscription integration
- Zendesk integration
- Advertising integration
- Analytics integration, this could be for Google analytics, Plausible analytics or any other analytics integration.
Write a SQL query for use in Data Explorer
Make Discourse theme modifications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Done with these tasks? Awesome! Now follow the steps in the Discourse Support Expert guide to level up.
More in the series
Training explainer: Discourse Support Training Program
Training Level 1: Discourse Support Enthusiast
Training Level 2: This topic
Training Level 3: Discourse Support Expert