# What are the general qualifications for someone to admin an existing forum?

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [March 5, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-general-qualifications-for-someone-to-admin-an-existing-forum/355960 "2025-03-05T23:18:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-general-qualifications-for-someone-to-admin-an-existing-forum/355960/2 "2025-03-05T23:31:24Z")

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Discourse is quite simple to administrate.

Root access to the server is required (this is not mandatory for a Wordpress site).

The command line is sometimes used for very basic commands (upgrade via `./launcher rebuild app`).

Ideally, they would know at least the basics of how Discourse works for users AND admin: site settings, simple official or third-party customization, moderation tools and features.

The support forum (that’s us, hi! :blob_wave:) is very helpful, and many issues raised by self-hosters are resolved by the community.

[ask.discourse.org](http://ask.discourse.org), an AI-powered search based on Discourse-specific information, often returns very helpful answers as well.

If your forum is already online, it can be helpful to share here some info about it. Is it self-hosted, does it have customizations (themes, components, plugins), how active/large is it, etc.

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