# פורום עם יומן משתמש/בלוג/פרופיל
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-with-user-diary-blog-profile/310811
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [6 ביוני, 2024, 1:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-with-user-diary-blog-profile/310811 "2024-06-06T13:05:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@inspectorgrow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/inspectorgrow)
#### Post date: [6 ביוני, 2024, 1:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-with-user-diary-blog-profile/310811/1 "2024-06-06T13:05:45Z")
I have had a look around the forum and not found anything that really fits I don’t think. Im wanted to setup a forum again where users this time can do there own grow diary (private if they wish) and include what equipment they have etc?
Is there any plugin that suits this kinda think? Im not looking to blog although I will be setting up a wiki section. It’s for users to do so like an expanded user section where they can add photos etc, maybe outside of the forum and through their profile?
Maybe like a social profile and with sidebar to see who’s online etc?
Cheers
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [6 ביוני, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-with-user-diary-blog-profile/310811/2 "2024-06-06T13:28:28Z")
Welcome to Meta Jamie! 🎉
I’ve had a look through some #Customization > Plugin and #Customization > Theme component available here on Meta and found some that may be of interest to you.
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> [@inspectorgrow](#):
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> expanded user section where they can add photos etc, maybe outside of the forum and through their profile?
As for an expandable user section, I found User Portfolio. That seems to be the closest thing that allows users too add pictures to their profile. However, a caveat is that this is publicly available for other users to click on. So may not be the best solution if users want to do something in private.
> [@User Portfolio](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-portfolio/156678):
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> discourse2Summary User Portfolio adds a new “Portfolio” tab to the user profile. It can be configured to show the user’s topics from a specific category and/or tag. It also works great alongside the [Topic List Thumbnails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-thumbnails-theme-component/150602)hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-user-portfolio](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-user-portfolio)open_bookNew to Discourse Themes? [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) Install this theme component Features
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As for social media, users can add their social media sites on their profile so that they can share their work etc.
> [@inspectorgrow](#):
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> social profile
> [@Clickable Social Icon Links on Profile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clickable-social-icon-links-on-profile/158136):
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> A Theme Component that includes social icons as clickable within User Profile & User Cards if you are using the [User Cards Directory Theme Component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-directory/144479/29) It’s 99% copied from the discussion & code samples provided by @LeoMcA included in this conversation on [Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-custom-user-field-to-external-website/41218) and in [Namati User Card Profile Theme](https://github.com/LeoMcA/namati-user-card-profile-theme), but thought it would be helpful to dig it out from the thread and make it slightly more general. Notes Any users that don’t include a value for an entry will…
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To achieve a blog post style topic there is [this TC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blog-post-styling/110841).
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Finally, as for a who’s online there is a plugin available for that
> [@inspectorgrow](#):
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> who’s online
> [@Discourse Who's Online](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-whos-online-plugin/52345):
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> discourse2Summary Discourse Who’s Online displays a list of users currently active on the sitehammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-whos-online](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-whos-online)open_bookInstall Guide [How to install plugins in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157)Featuresinformation_source Think carefully before installing this plugin. Discourse is designed for asynchronous discussion, and a list of online users can be harmful for some communities information_source This plugin is b…
Hope this helps
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### Author:  [@inspectorgrow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/inspectorgrow)
#### Post date: [6 ביוני, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-with-user-diary-blog-profile/310811/3 "2024-06-06T13:45:54Z")
Many thanks for your detailed reply. I did stumble across the User Portfolio and being private is not really 100% needed to be honest. From my research it seamed to be limited to photos only? Are others able to comment on the photos etc? I will take another look rather than spin up up another Discourse server. Maybe combining Wordpress SSO with Discourse is the way to go, I’m not sure?
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [22 ביוני, 2024, 4:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-with-user-diary-blog-profile/310811/6 "2024-06-22T04:14:14Z")
> [@inspectorgrow](#):
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> Im wanted to setup a forum again where users this time can do there own grow diary (private if they wish) and include what equipment they have etc?
There are a few ways you could do this. The easiest way to create something like a traditional diary entry on Discourse is to send a PM to yourself:
Another approach for your use case would be to create a “grow-logs” category. It could be a place where people post updates about what they’re doing, what equipment they’re using, etc.
I’m interested in the diary idea because it could be solved in a similar way to what would be required to use Discourse as a publishing platform - for example, to use Discourse to create a small version of Substack, or to have a Discourse site that allows multiple people to publish their [Obsidian Notes](https://obsidian.md/).
A possible solution would be to create a Discourse category and group for each publisher:
A benefit of this approach is that it allows you to control how users can interact with the category. In the example below, only members of the “simon” group (me), can create new topics in the category. Everyone else can see the category’s topics and reply to them.
Note that there are good reasons for not creating a group and category for every user on your site. In the past, having a huge number of categories on a Discourse site caused a performance issue. I think that’s been solved though. Having a huge number of groups and categories on a site will cause a UX issue, at least for site staff. Unless something has changed, hosted Discourse sites can only create a limited (but reasonable) number of categories.
That said, I think the category/group approach would be a good solution for sites with 10-20 separate publishers, diary creators, note takers, etc.