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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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.