Hey all, I hope I’m posting this in the right place. I’m trying to develop a plugin for my new Discourse website. I forked the example repo here , got a Plugin Outlet working, then hit a wall and started to feel pretty lost and confused. I’m recently starting to get the hang of MVC PHP frameworks li…

[image] Richard - Communiteq: Forget about the moderation by owners (if I understood you correctly) and leave that to staff. [image] Jay Pfaffman: I suggest that whoever it is that would do that should just manage all of the users. Honestly I’m starting to think you guys are right abou…

[image] petermarkley: What I’m trying to do is collect and save a few extra fields of data per user: I think you could do that with Creating and configuring custom user fields

Thank you! That doesn’t provide all of the functionality that I think I want, but it definitely makes me pause to consider whether that feature can help me toward my goals. Either way I think I still need to answer the original question of how to extend existing controllers using a plugin. Is such …

[image] petermarkley: What I’m trying to do is collect and save a few extra fields of data per user [image] petermarkley: That doesn’t provide all of the functionality that I think I want, but it definitely makes me pause to consider whether that feature can help me toward my goals. sa…

[image] petermarkley: What I’m trying to do is collect and save a few extra fields of data per user: … I want to make these fields required for user signup. That means modifying the user signup form This can be accomplished without any programming with Creating and configuring custom user f…

what is it you want to do with this data? i’m under the impression you want store it for some other functionality rather than just display it somewhere on the forum. Well, my ultimate hope/vision was: 1. Tiered moderation Grant owners of each unit in the community moderator powers over ONLY the …

[image] petermarkley: Bearing in mind that there are close to 200 units in our community, it didn’t seem feasible to use the groups feature to accomplish this. See also #3 below, which groups would also conflict with. Groups will work fine for that purpose, and you can easily have 200 groups. …

If you do need to add features, you want to create a plugin or theme component, not fork discourse. [image] petermarkley: Signup UX You can do that in a theme component, so you don’t need a plugin for that, but if you are making a plugin, you can include the front end changes in the plugin t…

[image] Jay Pfaffman: you want to create a plugin or theme component, not fork discourse. I don’t think TS intended to fork discourse?? [image] petermarkley: I’m trying to develop a plugin for my new Discourse

[image] Richard - Communiteq: I don’t think TS intended to fork discourse?? It looks like the repo he linked to is a fork and not a plugin.

[image] Forking discourse-plugin-skeleton seems a good start for writing a plugin to me…

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This can be accomplished without any programming with Creating and configuring custom user fields

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