Out of the box, Discourse comes with a few convenience links: /faq and /privacy and /about. It isn’t obvious how they work. They seem to be topics in the staff channel, which is normally not visible to non-logged-in users. But /privacy and /tos work for non-logged-in users, even when I have must-be…

[image] itsbhanusharma: If your goal is just to have a few additional static pages and don’t care much about the url, You can use Page Publishing which lets you set topics as static pages which you can also make visible to anonymous users. in addition to using page publishing, you can also cr…

[image] paco: /faq and /privacy and /about iirc those are hardcoded and there is no interface in discourse to edit those routes or create new such routes. If your goal is just to have a few additional static pages and don’t care much about the url, You can use Page Publishing which lets you …

Really helpful, thanks! It also makes me feel better that I hadn’t overlooked something in the docs. I’m still learning.

How do root level links work?

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Lilly March 29, 2026, 11:36pm 3

in addition to using page publishing, you can also create virtual routes by using permalinks (admin/config/permalinks):

will make https://your-forum.com/perma-link go to the published page

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How do root level links work?

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