# National Flags (fork)
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/national-flags-fork/384423
**Category:** Plugin
**Created:** [October 1, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/national-flags-fork/384423 "2025-10-01T01:17:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/national-flags-fork/384423/1 "2025-10-01T01:17:18Z")
ℹ This is a fork of [National Flags](https://meta.discourse.org/t/national-flags/55969) (which no longer seems to be maintained) and is mainly an updated version to make it work with the latest glimmer/ember/discourse demands.
It’s therefor almost functionally identical, with only some small changes (see below).
I don’t want to hijack the original topic, in case the author comes back 🙂
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| ℹ | **Summary** | Shows a country flag next to the username on posts and on the profile. |
| 🛠 | **Repository Link** | [GitHub - chapoi/discourse-nationalflags: National Flags plugin for Discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/chapoi/discourse-nationalflags) |
| 📖 | **Install Guide** | [How to install plugins in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157) |
### Features
After installing and enabling in `admin/plugins`, users can find a new custom setting called ‘National Flag’ on their /preferences/profile` page.
After selecting a country from the dropdown, the flag image will be displayed alongside their name in topics and on their user profile.
### Configuration
Just needs enabling.
To migrate from the original plugin, change `Ebsy` to `chapoi` in the line in your `containers/app.yml` that installs this plugin, and rebuild your site.
Settings are retained. (thanks to @mcdanlj for testing)
### UX differences with original plugin
- Flag renders a bit smaller on posts: it’s now set to the font-size, instead of fixed value
- The setting dropdown shows full country names, instead of ISO codes
- The Wizard setup is no longer present. (I’m not sure if it ever worked, but I think it’s best to keep this type of detai setup in a later phase instead of onboarding)
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### Author:  [@mcdanlj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcdanlj)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/national-flags-fork/384423/2 "2025-10-01T03:15:01Z")
Thank you again for doing this! I was sad to think of losing this plug-in, and really appreciate the ability for my community to help each other know some reasonable expectations from the flags.
Might want to PR what you have now to Ebsy from a branch in case he comes back, but now that you have posted this separately on your branch, change your README to reference your repository in the install instructions?
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/national-flags-fork/384423/3 "2025-10-01T03:16:21Z")
> [@mcdanlj](#):
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> change your README to reference your repository in the install instructions?
Oh good point will do.
And youre welcome! 🤗
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 5:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/national-flags-fork/384423/4 "2025-12-04T05:06:36Z")
Thank you for the update. I was just going to post a bug in the old plugin .. 😍
Though an interesting idea would be to expand the plugin to allow adding a different flag type set
Ie a a province(Canada) or a State(US) might want to use something like this for county/municipal flag/symbol.
Similarity maybe State or Province flags. Maybe an idea to upload different flag sets with alternative Feild text to use instead of the Country flags
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/national-flags-fork/384423/5 "2026-01-04T16:18:45Z")
5 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Locations Plugin 🌍](https://meta.discourse.org/t/locations-plugin/69742/1195)
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/national-flags-fork/384423/6 "2026-08-14T21:42:37Z")
Thanks for maintaining this, it’s a cool feature to have 🙂
I wonder if this is an expected behavior or the display of the flag should be aligned with the user title?
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2026, 9:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/national-flags-fork/384423/7 "2026-08-17T09:28:56Z")
Glad you like it.
Not sure what alignment you mean?
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/national-flags-fork/384423/8 "2026-08-17T12:28:07Z")
Oh, my bad. I think that displaying the national flag next to the user title or user name makes more sense than showing it ‘alone’ as a new isolated field.
I’m on Horizon, perhaps it is related to this theme or my particular instance. Please sorry if it is the last case 🙂