Hello everyone If you manage multiple Discourse forums (I’m taking care of two), you often find yourself doing repetitive work: upgrading core/plugins, various settings & styling and so on. If I’d have one more forum to manage i’ll probably go nuts ! :slight_smile: There is a way of doing this one without going on all forum admins? Thanks!

You can script rebuild at the command line. I’ve written a Discourse settings uploader that will install settings to multiple sites. I don’t know if an automated way to upload themes, though if the sites use the same themes you can host them at github.

@pfaffman is your discourse-settings-uploader still the only (or optimal) way to copy site settings from one standalone discourse instance to another? If so, for the example provided in the repository… ./discourse-settings-uploader https://discourse.example.com d35989078a system site_settings.json I saved the site_settings.json to my PC downloads folder. Shouldn’t I be saving it to the remote server, and if so, where? Then I tried running that command like so… (and received the displayed error in the console)… [Screenshot 2023-08-03 180854] Is there any more instruction you could provide?

[image] denvergeeks: @pfaffman is your discourse-settings-uploader still the only (or optimal) way to copy site settings from one standalone discourse instance to another? I think Administrative Bulk Operations is the way to go.

OK great thank you. Is there a file that stores the list of Theme Components that I can copy from one instance to another, like I do with the Plugins in the app.yml?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) August 4, 2023, 12:16am 4

I think Administrative Bulk Operations is the way to go.

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