Hello, fellow Discourse users, admins and whatnot. I’m fairly new to Discourse and I was wondering if Discourse supports something like a rich text editor. If you don’t know what I’m talking about an example can be found here: BB Code Editor I would love for my forum users to be able to format th…

You can already embed videos and images by pasting the URL to the image or video on a line by itself. For formatting options, use the editor toolbar or see Markdown Reference

You could try the bbcode plugin https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode It lets you post bbcode tags like [color=#F00]F00[/color] and [bgcolor=#99F]99F[/bgcolor]

Thanks, @Mittineague for the plugin suggestion. Though I really dislike having to use BB Code and all this fancy stuff when there could just be a better editor that allows for all this by clicking buttons. This makes it a lot easier for users to change the formatting and is self-explanatory. Most o…

There are many topics here in Meta discussing why a WYSIWYG editor isn’t a planned feature. [image] Who would prefer a standard wysiwyg to markdown? Anyway I feel we have said enough on this topic now, time to either build some proof of concept (which will not come from the Discourse team) or st…

We have been working to make this possible. For anyone who’s interested, do take a look at: Test our new composer! :tada:

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Falco (Falco) March 18, 2019, 8:07pm 6

There are many topics here in Meta discussing why a WYSIWYG editor isn’t a planned feature.

Topic		Replies	Views
Rich Text Editor Plugin Marketplace	10	741	March 12, 2025
Rich Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) Support	2	1835	March 12, 2025
More advance editor should be here? Feature completed	24	10881	March 12, 2025
Advanced editor? Development	0	701	January 25, 2018
WYSIWYG Editor Plugin Development	18	5389	March 12, 2025

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