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 simple. You have to ssh into your discourse server then follow these instructions:
This guide assumes that you have a self-hosted standard installation. We only support the standard method of install here, so these instructions assume you have a standard install .
This guide only applies to self-hosted Discourse instances. If you are using a managed hosting service, the available plugins are controlled by your hosting provider. For example, on our hosting these specific plugins are available by hosting tier.
In this tutorial, we’ll install the Discours…
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