I'm considering writing a plugin to load data from the FullContact Person API for each new sign-up on my forum. This would be available to admins and/or moderators.
It's astonishing, the information FullContact provides (social profiles, interests, influence measures etc) given just an email address. Here's how it obtains the data:
It would be a bonanza for moderators who want to get a fuller background on users, and assign higher trust levels to users with strong online social proof.
However, I would understand if the Discourse team had ethical objections to this plugin idea. Any thoughts?
I have followed the steps outlined for installation and setup of wp-discourse. Pinned here and on the wp-discourse git wiki.
When I navigate to my discourse forum and click login, I am presented with the wordpress login screen. After entering credentials, the page displays invalid request and the url reads:
Not really sure if this is a bug or intentional. if 'top menu' setting is set to 'categories' first, clicking the site logo does not refresh the page content.
This can be tested here on meta by clicking the view buttons along the top of the page. click latest twice, content reloads. click categories twice. second click has no effect. (only the categories view is affected) My own discourse instance is set to categories as default and a user reported this behavior on mobile.
I understand if this is intentional as the categories list should not change much. But, the recent combined 'categories/latest' view should have this behavior available.
It doesn't happen every time, but it's not uncommon. It's also not new – I first noticed it many months ago. I have customised the text content via the AdminCP but have done nothing else that I'm aware of that could cause this.
Do other people have this issue? It's not a great first impression.
What further info is required in order to investigate?
Am I doing something wrong? Should I do some manual process at the real command line to bring things up to snuff? I'm pretty good about running updates periodically and not too infrequently...
Can anyone discuss best practices, plugins, gotchas in regards to Wordpress New User registration.
Out of the box, it appears that users must be created by the wordpress admin. The new user then logs in to the forum with their new credentials and then must activate via the new member mail.
I am looking to accomplish something close to an HR process where upon application review, the user is given a registration link. The user is then manually moved from Guest to Member in Wordpress.
Some items I need to possibly address:
Install a role plugin for Wordpress
Configure a Guest Role and newly registered users are assigned to this
Create a new user registration page
Manual process of administrator moving guest to member role
User signs in for first time to Discourse
User is auto-activated with no further email validation in Discourse
What are the best practices surrounding this integration for handling of new user registration?
...we have a category called Marketplace. Because we're in the crypto community we get a lot of advertisements that we'd like to keep contained in this category. We would like to keep the category visible in category view so that users can access and read these threads, however we don't want the threads from this category appearing in latest view and cluttering up the list. So I read up on how to do this in settings and found this thread...
I tried adding Marketplace to the muted default categories list and I posted a test thread in that category to see if it worked. Unfortunately, the test thread was still showing up in latest view and on the hybrid page, even though I set it not to. I think there may be a bug for this feature.
Many of our members never visit the website and simply use the email digests. As a result we get zero metrics on who has actually read a post via email.
Is is possible to add a feature that uses a tracking pixel in emails that is tracked through the admin interface so we can get a better insight into user activity.
At the moment, censored words will be replaced by stars or dots automatically. Is there a way to hold these post for moderator approval even for the customers who have trsut-level 1 or 2? And also if they are approved in any ways, send a notification to moderators? I guess this will be some sort of auto flagging done by discourse. Generally we don't expect to see any censored words from clients in our technical forum unless they are somehow gone crazy, something that we can avoid happening.
/admin/users/list/active gives some user activity info which makes it quite easy to see how much time a user has spent on the site.
What is missing, is an indication of how much that user has contributed to the site. Topics and Posts created wouldn't take up much space, and it would be worth the real estate, in my opinion.
I installed discourse recently. Great Software. But I am having a problem. I am creating the categories for my Site but there's a default Lounge category which I am unable to delete. It simply say's "Can't delete this category because topic count is 1" But there are no topics expect the description topic that is "About Lounge Category" and I am unable to delete this as well.
Please guide me on how to get rid of this builtin category. Or
I can edit the FAQ, change Admin Settings and the Customisations - but if I try and edit the Terms of Service I get an error on "403 Forbidden" in a modal dialog, on submission. The only option is to click OK, and then it goes back to the editor.
The errors in the console are all to a /posts API I presume:
Interestingly... I can get it to post successfully, but only if I delete most of the content so it's just a single paragraph. If I try and create something as long as the original, it won't submit.
I'm very interested in using Discourse for a project but I have a few features I need. Are these available or would it need to be developed if possible?
User Feedback I would like an ebay style feedback system that would allow for users to leave feedback for other users. Stars and comments. Users will be engaging in private transactions so I would like to have a trust system.
Private Registration Are we able to keep registrations closed that require an admin approval? This would also mean we need additional fields on registration that allow us to make these decisions.
There are many reasons why a community might be private: Paid memberships; a company intranet; a sensitive subject matter; beta testers; a grassroots movement building momentum before going public. Whatever the reason, we want Discourse to function well in private contexts. We reached out to 23 private Discourse communities to learn more about their use…
