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How to customize the look and feel of discourse with themes, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

  • Users
    • Features
    • How does title and favicon notification work?
    • What are Badges?
    • What are Flags and how do they work?
    • What are "Likes"?
    • What are Mentions?
    • What do user trust levels do?
    • What is a Wiki Post?
    • What is "Infinite Scrolling"?
  • Administrators
    • Essentials
    • Configure automatic backups for Discourse
    • Configure custom emoji
    • Configure your domain name for hosted Discourse
    • Creating and Submitting XML Sitemaps to Google, Bing & Yandex
    • Customize subject format for standard emails
    • Export User Information List
    • Grant a badge to individual users manually
    • How to change FAQ, Privacy Policy, and Terms of Service
    • How to enable Piwik analytics on Discourse
    • Link User Title to a Group
    • Recover a user who was deleted as a spammer
    • Sending Bulk User Invites
    • Setting up file and image uploads to S3
    • Some common badge queries idea
    • Email
    • How to configure mailbox in Google Apps for user-friendly incoming email addresses for discourse categories (with screenshots)
    • Set up "Email In" (start topic via email)
    • Set up reply via email support
    • Use one Fastmail account to serve multiple Discourse instances
    • Logins
    • Configuring Facebook login for Discourse
    • Configuring GitHub login for Discourse
    • Configuring Google OAuth2 login for Discourse
    • Configuring Twitter login for Discourse
    • Using Discourse as a SSO provider
  • Designers
    • Tweaks
    • Custom header with dropdown navigation
    • Custom nav header like discourse.org
  • Sysadmins
    • Install
    • How Do I Install Discourse?
    • Install Discourse in the Cloud
    • How to create an administrator account after install
    • Change the domain name or rename my Discourse?
    • Essentials
    • Change the domain name or rename my Discourse?
    • Change tracking branch for your Discourse instance
    • Enable a CDN for your Discourse
    • Full site CDN acceleration for Discourse
    • How do I update my Docker image to latest?
    • Install a Plugin
    • Move your Discourse Instance to a Different Server
    • Email
    • Configure your domain for Discourse hosted email
    • How to use a self-signed cert with Discourse for emails
    • Troubleshooting email on a new Discourse install
    • Docker
    • Understanding Discourse Docker
    • Multisite configuration with Docker
    • How to configure Discourse Docker on higher end servers
    • How to use Docker multiple containers without exposing ports
    • Migrating an old Discourse install to Docker
    • Host run support for launcher
    • Running other websites on the same machine as Discourse
    • Subfolder support with Docker
    • Troubleshooting Docker Installation Issues
    • Advanced Setup and Administration
    • Miscellaneous
    • Adjust Discourse search to work with CJK languages
    • Advanced, manual method of manually creating and restoring Discourse backups
    • Adventures in haproxy and varnish with discourse because i hate myself
    • Beginners Guide to Install Discourse on Mac OS X for Development
    • Beginners Guide to Install Discourse on Ubuntu for Development
    • Changing Max Attachment Size
    • Configure a firewall for Discourse
    • Create a swapfile for your Linux server
    • Create Admin Account from Console
    • Deploy Discourse to an Ubuntu VPS using Capistrano
    • Deploying Discourse to Amazon (and other clouds)
    • How do I enable DKIM for non-hosted Discourse emails?
    • How to deploy Discourse in 8 minutes with Juju
    • How to set up Discourse on a server with existing Apache sites
    • Migrating from Heroku to a Hosted/Cloud instance
    • Redirect single/multiple domain(s) to your Discourse instance
    • Replace rubygems.org with taobao mirror to resolve network error in China
    • Simple Discourse Deployment with Rubber
  • Developers
    • Environment
    • Discourse Advanced Developer Install Guide
    • Developing under OS X Without Vagrant
    • Setting up Docker in Virtualbox for 'production' testing
    • Discourse Developer Testing Guide
    • Discourse Developer Install Guide (Vagrant)
    • Creating plugins
    • Beginner's Guide to Creating Discourse Plugins
    • Beginner's Guide to Creating Discourse Plugins Part 2: Plugin Outlets
    • Beginner's Guide to Creating Discourse Plugins Part 3: Custom Settings
    • Beginner's Guide to Creating Discourse Plugins Part 4: Git Setup
    • Beginner's Guide to Creating Discourse Plugins Part 5: Admin Interfaces
    • Beginner’s Guide to Creating Discourse Plugins Part 6: Acceptance Tests
    • Plugin Outlet Locations
    • Plugin Tutorial
    • Hacking
    • Using the Discourse API Ruby Gem
    • Discourse API Documentation
    • How to reverse engineer the Discourse API
    • Adding plugin-outlets using site customizations
    • Create group via API
    • Generating lots of Invite Links
    • Invite individual users to a group
    • A badge for all members of a group
    • Triggered custom badge queries
    • Edit a user setting for all Discourse users
    • Embedding Discourse Comments via Javascript
    • Message Format support for localization
    • How to test Discourse in mobile screen emulator
    • Any kind of Data-Input (also anonymous) through Google-Forms
    • Tuning Ruby and Rails for Discourse
    • Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse
    • Forum import
    • Migrating to Discourse from another Forum software
    • Importing from phpBB3
    • How to migrate from Vanilla to Discourse!
    • How to import a Phorum database (via Vanilla Porter)
    • Import posts from Facebook group into Discourse
    • Import from Google Groups to Discourse
    • Archive an old forum "in place" to start a new Discourse forum
    • Redirecting old forum URLs to new Discourse URLs

    Tweaks

    • Custom nav header like discourse.org
    • Custom header with dropdown navigation

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