# How do I edit the email template for the welcoming email?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-edit-the-email-template-for-the-welcoming-email/25911
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 3, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-edit-the-email-template-for-the-welcoming-email/25911 "2015-03-03T04:24:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@wilsonpeng8](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wilsonpeng8)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-edit-the-email-template-for-the-welcoming-email/25911/1 "2015-03-03T04:24:29Z")
Loving discourse so far, How do I edit the email template for the welcoming email?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2015, 5:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-edit-the-email-template-for-the-welcoming-email/25911/2 "2015-03-03T05:35:05Z")
Admin, customize, text content
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-edit-the-email-template-for-the-welcoming-email/25911/3 "2015-05-08T04:31:36Z")
I updated this today for my site, but I still have a bit of extra text in the welcome email I can’t figure out how to change - even though it looks like text I had written in the past. Is there another place to edit a line of intro text to the “New User Guidance” that gets sent as a PM to new users?
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### Author:  [@AdamCapriola](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AdamCapriola)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-edit-the-email-template-for-the-welcoming-email/25911/4 "2015-05-16T00:39:38Z")
I’m seeing this too. Do you have this same text tacked on @tobiaseigen ?
> We believe in civilized community behavior at all times.
> Enjoy your stay!
> (If you need to communicate with staff members as a new user, just reply to this message.)
Also this is appended at the beginning:
> Thanks for joining [site name], and welcome!
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-edit-the-email-template-for-the-welcoming-email/25911/5 "2015-05-16T02:11:53Z")
yep! I get the same text before and after, just like @AdamCapriola.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Rose](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jeff_Rose)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-edit-the-email-template-for-the-welcoming-email/25911/6 "2015-06-04T20:05:36Z")
Am I correct in assuming that editing the email templates is generally not possible?
For example - we would like to brand the invitation template and make some other changes to the language to make it more clear what we’re doing.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-edit-the-email-template-for-the-welcoming-email/25911/7 "2015-06-04T23:43:26Z")
Some of the copy is editable in Admin, Customize, Text. But more could be..
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### Author:  [@jesselperry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jesselperry)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-edit-the-email-template-for-the-welcoming-email/25911/8 "2015-07-30T16:31:03Z")
Ditto on this. Was kind of surprised that the text is hardcoded in. Wish that was just included in the template and could be editable. Especially “We believe in civilized community behavior at all times” for my site in specific the point is kind of mute because it’s a paid-only members site. Any easy way to remove that?
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### Author:  [@AdamCapriola](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AdamCapriola)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-edit-the-email-template-for-the-welcoming-email/25911/9 "2015-07-31T21:48:32Z")
You could disable the welcome message (there is a setting) and then create your own from scratch through the API.
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 1:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-edit-the-email-template-for-the-welcoming-email/25911/10 "2015-11-20T01:24:50Z")
TFW we get hit with awesome surprises from the Discourse Team
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f5b34d5f53506c3313037238ae8d68177623ce67](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f5b34d5f53506c3313037238ae8d68177623ce67)
**Update:**
> [@Customizable Email Templates](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customizable-email-templates/35818):
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> Don’t like the text in our emails? Well now you can change them! (as long as you’re tracking our tests-passed branch) Just visit Admin \> Customize \> Email Templates and you’ll be presented with this nifty interface: Give it a whirl and let us know how it works out for you.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2015, 10:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-edit-the-email-template-for-the-welcoming-email/25911/11 "2015-12-06T10:57:09Z")