Dimava
October 10, 2025, 10:49pm
1
We had a problem with users bumping their topics when editing them
It’s not really a problem when there’s just a couple of posts, but if some of their links died and they have to update a dozen it becomes spammy
Same problem with mods changing tags (without using mass-tagging)
So with some (a lot) help from AI and some (a lot) rewrites I made a plugin to fix that
Prevents topics from being bumped when the first post is edited
Works with all types of edits to the first post, including tag changes
Applies to all users, not just the topic creator
Category-based allow/block lists with inheritance
Optional time-based cooldown between bumps
After installing, go to Admin → Settings → Plugins and configure the settings below.
Name
Description
Default
Prevent topic bumping when the first post is edited
Master switch. When enabled, editing the first post (including tag changes) won’t bump the topic.
false
Allowed categories
Categories where first-post edits may bump. Leave empty to block all by default.
Empty
Blocked categories
Categories that must never bump. Overrides allowed categories.
Empty
Minimum hours between bumps
Require cooldown since last bump. Use 0 to disable.
0
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Moin
October 10, 2025, 11:07pm
2
How does this plugin interact with the recent changes in core that prevent bumping of topics when the last post is edited?
main ← feature/do-not-bump-topic-on-post-edit
merged 01:28AM - 22 Sep 25 UTC
We currently bump the entire topic if the last post
in the topic is edited.
… This is quite noisy and distracting, particularly in cases where the
edit was to address a small typo rather than dramatically rework the
post.
So, this commit no longer bumps a topic on post edit for
any posts in the topic. Only manually bumping the
topic in the footer or in bulk actions will bump it now,
or when tags/category are edited depending on settings.
main ← issue/fix-title-cat-bump-topics
merged 12:16AM - 03 Oct 25 UTC
Followup 2a65bf452224ece92981a9a26579ece67f10855b
With the above change, we i… nadvertently made it so that
when you edited the topic title or category, we bumped
the topic.
This fix makes it so we do not bump topics when only title, category,
or tags are changed, to restore the previous behaviour.
In addition, we are making it so the following settings no longer
influence topic bump behaviour, keeping only their intended notification
behaviour around. The site setting description never mentioned anything
about topic bumps:
* disable_category_edit_notifications
* disable_tag_edit_notifications
The use cases you describe with users bumping on edit and staff bumping when they tag topics seem to be covered by the changes in core. The only case I know that still bumps the topic is if the first post is a wiki which was added as an exception in FEATURE: Bump wiki topics when OP is edited by martin-brennan · Pull Request #35137 · discourse/discourse · GitHub .
So, can I now use your plugin to enable bumping topics in a category on edit?
Dimava
October 10, 2025, 11:17pm
3
Hmm, it was made like a half year ago, just forgot about it since as we didn’t add it to our Discource
cc @Eviepayne
HAWK
October 12, 2025, 8:58pm
5
henvo
May 15, 2026, 5:23pm
6
Dimava:
Optional time-based cooldown between bumps
I’ve been looking for a way to stop users from bumping their own topics every few days, is this functionality currently the only way to do this in Discourse?
Moin
May 16, 2026, 8:57pm
7
How do your users bump their topic?
Since edits on the last post no longer bump the topic, I’d assume they reply to their own topic. Then you might also want to look at Discourse No Bump . It’s an official plugin maintained by the Discourse team.
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