I am interested in setting up a forum with the look and feel of the following https://forum.glamour.de/ How easy is it to do this on my own? And what are the key plugins required to get this look and feel ? Best Regards, DG

I think it’s mostly their CSS and the Topic Lists Preview plugin [image] Topic List Previews (legacy) Plugin This is now a Theme Component, the plugin is deprecated The new Topic is Topic List Previews Theme Component - theme - Discourse Meta [GitHub-Mar…

Are these plugins included in the free discourse source code? As in if I use Digital Ocean and vultr, will they be automatically installed or at least an option provided? Or I have to download them separately and then install them ? I guess Communiteq (formerly DiscourseHosting) and nodechef will…

Actually, You have to install the plugin regardless of how you decide to install discourse. I’d highly recommend installing by hand using the official 30 minutes install guide. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md Installing a plugin on discourse is super simpl…

You want to follow the install instructions below, not the digital ocean one click. See also https://www.literatecomputing.com/discourse-self-hosting-faq/

[image] itsbhanusharma: You have to install the plugin regardless of how you decide to install discourse. On Communiteq (formerly DiscourseHosting) you can just request it.

Is this available in the $ 20 Basic Plan to start with ?

From what I’m seeing no you would need the next plan up unless they changed their pricing since I last tried them then moved to self hosted

We’re seeing so much demand for the topic preview plugin that we’re going to include it in the Basic plan. However, there is still a bug in that plugin that makes things look weird if the plugin is disabled. However! In the meanwhile we’ll give it to users that request it.

They don’t actually use the Topic List Previews plugin at all, the topics in the carousel on the homepage are displayed using a custom theme component. The topics are set with tags and pulled in as jcarousel slides using AJAX. The images are set using a field in the theme settings . The rest of the …

@michaeld loving this discussion because this is exactly what we want and we are on the basic plan. Is the bug fixed and is it something you could help us with? Plus, can I try it and see if we like before we turn it on for all?

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) July 27, 2019, 6:11am 2

I think it’s mostly their CSS and the Topic Lists Preview plugin

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