gingerman
November 16, 2021, 5:24am
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I know that Discourse lets use now change text almost everyone on the site through the admin panel, but is there a way to do something like find and replace all?
I know categories and topics are fundamental to how Discourse was built, but what if I wanted to match the experience of the forum I’m migrated to and instead wanted to use ‘Forums’ to replace ‘Categories’ and ‘Threads’ to replace to ‘Topics’. ?
If you are tech-savvy, there are couple of options for bulk replacement of strings in posts which theoretically can be extended to do what you are looking for
Discourse-post-process <==
I’m happy to introduce this simple but powerful Node.js script that uses the Discourse API to mass-modify Discourse posts. It essentially performs a regexp-based search & replace across all posts in a forum.
After migrating a few thousand posts from MyBB to Discourse, there was various little tweaks that needed to be made (fix BBCode → Markdown conversion, re-attach attachments, fix @username mentions when the usernames have changed etc.) I’m not a Ruby coder, an…
Want to replace a string in all the posts? Let’s do it!
Access your site
First connect to your Droplet via SSH, and enter the Docker container for your Discourse instances:
cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app
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