alanr
(Alanr)
April 1, 2026, 3:09am
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I am trying to display some site activity metrics on the front page of my website. My forum is hosted on a subdomain. I would like to either post the Site Activity from the About page or post one or more graph reports. Is it possible to post these? I couldn’t figure out an easy way to do it.
Thanks in advance, non techy,
Alan
HAWK
(Hawk)
April 1, 2026, 3:54am
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It’s definitely possible to do, but I’m afraid you don’t have the ability to customise CSS on the Free plan. You’ll need to self-host or upgrade to a paid plan.
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alanr
(Alanr)
April 1, 2026, 4:09am
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I’m self hosting on digital ocean. Are you able to share some steps or point me to a resource I could read? I couldn’t figure it out poking around.
Lilly
April 1, 2026, 2:06pm
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alanr:
site activity metrics
you can use API and Data Explorer queries to pull admin dashboard reports and stats to other apps:
This guide explains how to use the Discourse API to create, run, and manage queries with the Data Explorer plugin.
Required user level: Administrator
Virtually any action that can be performed through the Discourse user interface can also be triggered with the Discourse API.
This document provides a comprehensive overview for utilizing the API specifically in conjunction with the Data Explorer plugin.
For a general overview of how to find the correct API …
Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api.
The API is documented at docs.discourse.org . You can also use the discourse_api Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented.
To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow.
Example: recategorize a topic.
Go to a topic and start editing a category:
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Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …
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