A few questions, thank you in advance. (1) Before I sign up for discourse hosting, do I need to have a forum already for migration? (2) I have a great idea of the setup of a discourse so that being said, I am guessing that I need to have the categories already written and ready to go for the hosti…

You could start with a 14 day free trial: [image] Discourse pricing Official Discourse hosting plans for communities of every size. [image] gina_riley: I am guessing that I need to have the categories already written No, you don’t need that. You enter…

Hey @gina_riley I’ll second @tophee ’s suggestion – the best way to get things organised is to sign up for a trial and have a play around. Specific answers to your questions: No. If you are starting from scratch there will nothing to migrate. You’ll start with a fresh Discourse instance and bui…

I believe that hamburger theme thing is custom here on meta as a demo, so it is better to change user theme in your user preferences in the usual place which will work in all cases.

Ah yes – what he said. ^^ Thanks for the catch.

The “Gems of War” wallpaper is excellent. I’m assuming the “Gems of War” guys customized their code and did not use discourse administration settings. I have launched discourse for the community of Montgomery, Alabama and the Chamber of Commerce will announce launch. The unused Medium platform ha…

Very informative @HAWK . Thanks for the post. I’ll probably hire a freelancer due to time constraints. Does the Discourse team have in house experts who provide custom theme services? I want the city’s discourse forum to really attract the end user’s attention with local images.

Hey Josh, not inhouse, no. We can recommend @joebuhlig from Procourse though. He is excellent.

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HAWK (Hawk) August 28, 2018, 6:40pm 7

Hey Josh,
This is a good starting point if you want to create complicated themes: Developer’s guide to Discourse Themes

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