Log in with just about anything
Discourse supports popular social login methods as well as local logins, custom OAuth2, and SAML. You can also integrate Discourse with your website as a single sign-on provider.
Discourse 💖s Chat
Discourse supports a robust built-in chat solution. However, you can also connect Discourse to other chat providers to get notified about new posts. Set up rules to see new topics and replies from only the categories you’re interested in. You can even post chat transcripts directly from Slack to Discourse. Learn more about what Discourse can do with your chat provider.
Advertise & monetize
Get some help keeping the lights on by monetizing your site with the Discourse Advertising Plugin. Insert display ads above, below, or in-between your content. Discourse can even convert Amazon links to affiliate links automatically.
Simple analytics setup
Configure a few settings and watch the data start rolling in.
Crowdfund your community
With our Patreon and Memberful integrations you can make your entire community contributors-only or create special contributor-only categories.
Already using Patreon? check out our free hosting for Patreon creators.
Robust GitHub integration
Enable 2-way integration with our Discourse Code Review plugin and start having more in-depth development discussions. You can automatically create new topics for new commits, and replies in Discourse are mirrored back to GitHub. Mark commits for follow-up, assign reviews, and more! For a closer look, check out how the Discourse team uses it on review.discourse.org.
Looking for a lighter GitHub integration? Discourse GitHub enables linkbacks in GitHub when a commit is linked to from Discourse, allows you to award Discourse badges based on Github contributions, and converts all GitHub links to GitHub permalinks.
Add community to your support workflow
With our Zendesk plugin you can create tickets automatically from new topics in Discourse. Generate tickets from specific Discourse categories, add custom tags to tickets in Zendesk, and sync comments.
Fight toxicity with machine learning
With our Google Perspective API Plugin you can utilize Google’s machine learning API to automatically monitor the sentiment of discussions in your community. You can warn users before they post something rude or disrespectful, automatically flag posts that may be toxic, and optionally scan private messages for abuse.
Overcome language barriers with translation
Use our Translator plugin to integrate Google Translate or Microsoft Translator and allow users to see translations by simply pressing a button. Each post is only translated once per locale, which saves you money too.
Work wonders with Wordpress
The WP Discourse plugin allows you to closely integrate your Wordpress site with Discourse. Automatically create a new Discourse discussion for every Wordpress post, embed Discourse discussions in Wordpress, use Discourse as an authentication provider for your Wordpress site, or use Wordpress as the single-sign on provider for your Discourse community.
Don’t use Wordpress for your blog? You can also embed Discourse discussions anywhere using Javascript.
Automatic link previews with Onebox
Paste a link onto a new line in Discourse and you get a preview... it’s that simple.
Not only does onebox generate previews of any site using Open Graph or oEmbed, we’ve also baked in special embeds for commonly shared sites:
- Sharing a YouTube or Vimeo video? We’ll embed it.
- Great deal on Amazon? We’ll embed a preview and include the price.
- Sharing a GIF from Giphy? Yep, we embed it.
- While you’re here share a Soundcloud link, Discourse will embed audio playback too.
Connect with thousands of other apps
Automate your workflow and find productivity super powers. Connect popular applications to Discourse with minimal configuration through Zapier, Make, or Skyvia.
Go deeper and create your own custom Zapier "Zaps" that are triggered by Discourse webhooks, or make requests to the Discourse API.
Prefer Make? Explore their comprehensive integration breakdown.
Opting for Skyvia? Discover their detailed integration guide.
But wait, there’s more!
Stop spam with Akismet, embed video with Brightcove, supercharge search with Algolia — we’re constantly building new integrations so you can do more with Discourse.
With Discourse’s webhooks you can also integrate with the hundreds of services available via IFTTT. Trigger events based on user behavior, new topics, flags, or any other action taken in Discourse — the possibilities are endless!
