How to make all users who sign up or accept in invite go to a specifed category(with post composer open)

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Hello,

Is there a way to make it so anyone who signs up for the first time (whether through the sign up process or by accepting an invite(even if it does not have the go to topic configured)) go to a specified category and have the post composer automatically open?

This would reduce the friction of new users posting introduction posts and increase community engagement.

How would I be able to achieve this? I already have several invite links made and there would not be a realistic way to change all to go-to topic settings in them(and that would not open the post composer either).

Thank you so much!

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There’s no built-in way in Discourse to automatically send all first-time users (sign up or via invite) to a specific category and auto-open the composer.

Workarounds:

  1. You can nudge users to your introduction area by including a composer link in:
  • the Discobot welcome message
  • a global banner

See Creating a link to start a new topic with pre-filled information

Or:

  1. You can achieve this with the Custom Wizard plugin, configuring it to redirect new users to the composer in your chosen category when completing the onboarding wizard.
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I wonder if this is possible in a Theme Component, to overwrite:

to redirect the user. But opening the composer automatically might be harder.