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users Documentation for all members of communities running Discourse. theme developers Documentation for developing themes and components that can be installed by admins. sysadmin Documentation for self-hosters and Discourse system administrators. developers Documentation for developing features, plugins, or integrations with Discourse. moderators Documentation for moderators and community managers using Discourse. admins Guides for Discourse admins and community managers with admin access.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Learn how to start building stuff for Discourse if you're newbie (like myself) developers contributing , explanation	14	28376	October 15, 2023
Discourse Moderation Guide moderators moderation , getting-started , explanation	0	246225	May 22, 2017
Manually update Discourse and Docker image to latest sysadmin how-to	10	98976	April 10, 2024
Change the domain name or rename your Discourse sysadmin getting-started , how-to	0	194170	May 29, 2014
Discourse New User Guide users getting-started , reference	0	168554	September 7, 2018
Setup DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso) admins sso , discourseconnect , configuring , how-to	0	423288	February 25, 2014
Install plugins on a self-hosted site sysadmin getting-started , how-to , self-hosted	3	226965	May 9, 2024
Configure Google login for Discourse admins how-to , social-auth	0	225917	May 21, 2014
Run other websites on the same machine as Discourse sysadmin how-to , advanced-setup	58	125747	March 9, 2024
Set up HTTPS support with Let's Encrypt sysadmin how-to	2	105441	February 25, 2024
Beginner's guide to developing Discourse Themes theme developers contributing , reference , tutorial	0	89248	August 1, 2018
Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript admins embedding , configuring , how-to	100	284956	March 31, 2024
Page Publishing admins how-to , page-publishing	62	21968	April 29, 2024
Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin developers plugin-guides , tutorial	30	74315	December 8, 2023
Set up file and image uploads to S3 sysadmin configuring , how-to	14	114777	May 5, 2024
Add an offline page to display when Discourse is rebuilding or starting up sysadmin configuring , how-to , advanced-setup	135	236275	January 5, 2024
Create Events admins calendar-and-event , how-to	3	35003	January 30, 2024
Configure direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites with Mail-Receiver sysadmin email , how-to , advanced-setup , mail-receiver	19	43252	April 3, 2024
Beginner's guide to using Discourse Themes admins reference	24	69403	April 21, 2024
Configure Facebook login for Discourse admins how-to , social-auth	19	324657	April 27, 2024
Trust Level Permissions Table (inc Moderator Roles) users trust-levels , getting-started , reference	22	16809	April 23, 2024
Add a table to your post using markdown users tutorial , tips-and-tricks	25	30002	April 14, 2024
Discourse REST API Documentation developers rest-api , reference Discourse API Please view the Discourse API Documentation site for detailed info: https://docs.discourse.org :warning: Deprecation Warning! On April 6th, 2020 we dropped support for all non-HTTP header based authe…	0	123511	December 1, 2014
Install Discourse on macOS for development developers dev-install , how-to	84	102850	March 31, 2024
Configure Twitter login and rich embeds for Discourse admins how-to , social-auth	139	219796	April 22, 2024
Create a swapfile for your Linux server sysadmin	3	75461	January 13, 2024
Install the Discourse Theme CLI console app to help you build themes theme developers how-to	9	27999	March 26, 2024
Replace a string in all posts sysadmin how-to , self-hosted	25	21559	March 9, 2024
Reverse engineer the Discourse API developers rest-api , how-to	0	32528	September 29, 2014
Set up reply by email with POP3 polling admins email , getting-started , how-to , self-hosted	0	295054	March 22, 2014
Install Discourse for development using Docker developers docker , dev-install , how-to	197	63913	May 9, 2024
Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads sysadmin cdn , configuring , how-to , reference	219	35422	April 30, 2024
Understanding user statuses, roles, and permissions moderators getting-started , reference	0	26836	November 2, 2015
Configure automatic backups for Discourse admins configuring , how-to , self-hosted	42	293893	January 25, 2024
Use Discourse as an identity provider (SSO, DiscourseConnect) developers sso , discourseconnect , how-to	137	45583	February 17, 2024
Create a link to start a new topic with pre-filled information users how-to , tips-and-tricks	0	21819	April 29, 2015
House Ad Templates admins advertising , how-to	10	9192	April 18, 2023
Allow SSL / HTTPS for your Discourse Docker setup sysadmin how-to , advanced-setup	0	249570	March 18, 2014
Install a theme or theme component admins how-to	0	49676	May 31, 2017
Use a Topic Timer to schedule a topic to be published in the future moderators how-to , topic-timers	0	17108	April 10, 2017
Install Discourse on Windows 10 for development developers dev-install , how-to	11	63344	October 21, 2023
Discourse Development Contributor Guidelines developers contributing , reference	0	60543	February 23, 2013
Move your Discourse Instance to a Different Server admins configuring , how-to , self-hosted	0	284480	May 16, 2014
Restore a backup from the command line sysadmin how-to	1	18397	May 4, 2024
Display a "Discord Widget" in a dropdown button theme developers how-to	12	61433	October 26, 2022
Our solution for blurring NSFW content admins explanation	9	9303	November 14, 2020
Customize text in Discourse admins configuring , how-to	0	21968	November 27, 2015
Set up structured tagging with tag groups and category tag restrictions admins tutorial	0	24325	August 5, 2016
Link to a heading within a post or topic users how-to	0	23455	July 20, 2016
The difference between Closed, Unlisted and Archived topics moderators explanation	3	28246	May 2, 2024