# Forum templates and other plug-ins
**URL:** https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37
**Category:** Project management
**Created:** [June 11, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37 "2020-06-11T12:32:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@tonytamsf](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/tonytamsf)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/1 "2020-06-11T12:32:21Z")
@keunes does Discourse allow for templates for posting in bug reports and feature categories?
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### Author:  [@keunes](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/keunes)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/2 "2020-06-11T15:37:35Z")
Hello,
To be honest I’m not super familiar with Discourse so I didn’t know, but I checked the Discourse Features and Plugins pages as well their forum, and came across this: [https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-templates/63384](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-templates/63384)
As it’s tagged as a feature request there, I think it’s not currently possible 🙂
(On a related note, @bytehamster, some of the [Plugins](https://www.discourse.org/plugins) might be useful to add. I’m thinking e.g. of the [Solved](https://www.discourse.org/plugins/solved.html), [GitHub](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-github/99895) and [Canned Replies](https://www.discourse.org/plugins/canned-replies.html) plug-ins.)
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### Author:  [@tonytamsf](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/tonytamsf)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/3 "2020-06-11T15:59:20Z")
Maybe we can create a template topic and pin that to the top of the category?
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/4 "2020-06-11T18:53:30Z")
Bug report and feature request should already have a template. At least I found a setting for that and copied the GitHub template.
The solved plugin is already installed. Moderators can see it behind the 3 dots on replies and the thread creator can see it directly below each post.
The GitHub badges would be nice to have but I think they are so rare that they can be awarded manually. I don’t think we need GitHub permalink. Linkback would be annoying to me because I receive emails for each comment on ~~Google Play~~ GitHub.
Canned replies look useful to me. I have to reply “please tell us the app version” a lot recently…
Any additional plugin requests? Installing plugins causes some downtime, so if there are multiple interesting ones, I will install them at once.
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### Author:  [@keunes](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/keunes)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/5 "2020-06-12T13:19:10Z")
> [@ByteHamster](#):
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> Bug report and feature request should already have a template.
Ah, I see now - great!
> [@ByteHamster](#):
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> The solved plugin is already installed. Moderators can see it behind the 3 dots on replies and the thread creator can see it directly below each post.
I only see flag, edit, bookmark, delete & admin actions (which doesn’t contain ‘solution’) behind the three dots in this ~~thread~~ topic. Is it maybe only available in a specific type of topics?
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/6 "2020-06-12T13:30:53Z")
> [@keunes](#):
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> Is it maybe only available in a specific type of topics?
It was not enabled for #Lounge, #Project management and #Translations. That’s fixed now.
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### Author:  [@keunes](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/keunes)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/7 "2020-06-12T13:50:24Z")
> [@ByteHamster](#):
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> Any additional plugin requests? Installing plugins causes some downtime, so if there are multiple interesting ones, I will install them at once.
Possibly:
- [Topic Voting](https://www.discourse.org/plugins/topic-voting.html)
- [Assign](https://www.discourse.org/plugins/assign.html) (I don’t expect we’d use it a lot, but might be handy in some cases)
- [Checklist](https://www.discourse.org/plugins/checklist.html) (useful esp. in the ‘feature request’ category
- [Topic Tooltips](https://www.discourse.org/plugins/tooltips.html)
Nice-to-haves:
- [Yearly Review](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-yearly-review-plugin/105713/65)
> [@ByteHamster](#):
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> The GitHub badges would be nice to have but I think they are so rare that they can be awarded manually. I don’t think we need GitHub permalink. Linkback would be annoying to me because I receive emails for each comment on Google Play.
I was mainly thinking of the linkbacks - if we add a link here in the ‘FR’ category to an issue on GitHub, it’d be nice to see there that this link was added/established. Not sure how the comments on Google Play are related?
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/8 "2020-06-12T14:17:22Z")
> [@keunes](#):
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> Not sure how the comments on Google Play are related?
Sorry. I meant GitHub, not Google Play.
> [@keunes](#):
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> Possibly:
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> - [Topic Voting](https://www.discourse.org/plugins/topic-voting.html)
> - [Assign](https://www.discourse.org/plugins/assign.html) (I don’t expect we’d use it a lot, but might be handy in some cases)
> - [Checklist](https://www.discourse.org/plugins/checklist.html) (useful esp. in the ‘feature request’ category
> - [Topic Tooltips](https://www.discourse.org/plugins/tooltips.html)
Now installing github, canned-replies, checklist, tooltips.
Voting can be done by leaving a heart on the first post. Currently, the active community is not big enough that assigning is useful, I think.
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2020, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/9 "2020-06-13T07:07:02Z")
I did not manage to get the automatic GitHub contributor badges to work. Only @tonytamsf received one. Now reverted back to a single manual contributor badge.
Still have to test the linkback feature: [https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/3772](https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/3772)
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### Author:  [@keunes](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/keunes)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2020, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/10 "2020-06-14T11:04:09Z")
> [@ByteHamster](#):
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> Still have to test the linkback feature: [Default settings in Google Groups so users get notified about replies · Issue #3772 · AntennaPod/AntennaPod · GitHub](https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/3772)
This seems to have worked 👍
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/11 "2020-06-22T20:49:33Z")
A post was split to a new topic: [Different playback speed for subscriptions](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/different-playback-speed-for-subscriptions/51)
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### Author:  [@tenkara\_vt](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/tenkara_vt)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/12 "2020-07-26T19:07:05Z")
I think the Assign plugin is useful only once the forum grows and/or the project development grows in which contributors have clearly defined roles in the project.
I like the [Formatting Toolbar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-toolbar/40649), but that’s personal preference.
My forum members seem to really like the [Who’s Online plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whos-online-plugin-discourse-whos-online/52345). There is also a setting for this whereby you can only see who’s online if you are logged into the forum.
I think this ties into the old style bulletin boards and isn’t my thing, but I know some people really like the [Discourse Signatures plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-signatures/42263).
There are also a variety of [OAuth2 login plugins](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oauth2-basic-support/33879) that many people like. There is Google, Facebook, Twitter, Github, and others.
Last but not least, you may consider [Discourse Voting](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-voting).
Anyhow, these were just a few thoughts.
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/13 "2020-07-26T19:17:25Z")
> [@tenkara\_vt](#):
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> There are also a variety of [OAuth2 login plugins](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oauth2-basic-support/33879) that many people like. There is Google, Facebook, Twitter, Github, and others.
Many OAuth providers seem to be integrated into a basic Discourse install already. I only set up Google because I think that this is the most common use-case.
> [@tenkara\_vt](#):
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> My forum members seem to really like the [Who’s Online plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whos-online-plugin-discourse-whos-online/52345). There is also a setting for this whereby you can only see who’s online if you are logged into the forum.
Interesting. I will keep that one in mind.
> [@tenkara\_vt](#):
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> I think this ties into the old style bulletin boards and isn’t my thing, but I know some people really like the [Discourse Signatures plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-signatures/42263).
No, please not 😃 You can already customize the text on your profile page. That should be enough.
> [@tenkara\_vt](#):
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> Last but not least, you may consider [Discourse Voting](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-voting).
I don’t see why voting would be better than giving hearts in our case. This just complicates the interface by adding even more buttons.
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### Author:  [@tenkara\_vt](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/tenkara_vt)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/14 "2020-07-26T19:20:57Z")
> [@ByteHamster](#):
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> No, please not
🤣 🤣 🤣
> [@ByteHamster](#):
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> I don’t see why voting would be better than giving hearts in our case. This just complicates the interface by adding even more buttons.
I can understand this, it makes sense.
> [@ByteHamster](#):
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> Many OAuth providers seem to be integrated into a basic Discourse install already.
This is likely something that grew out of the original plugins, because it was not originally baked in. But it’s been a wee bit since I’ve done a brand new installation and I likely didn’t realize it had become integrated. Cheers for letting me know.
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### Author:  [@keunes](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/keunes)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/15 "2020-07-28T18:53:03Z")
I also wanted to request [Formatting Toolbar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-toolbar/40649). It would allow us to float images, which can be really helpful when sharing screenshots of the app while continuing the text next to it.
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### Author:  [@keunes](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/keunes)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/16 "2020-07-28T20:45:00Z")
> [@ByteHamster](#):
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> > [@tenkara\_vt](#):
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> > Last but not least, you may consider [Discourse Voting](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-voting).
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> I don’t see why voting would be better than giving hearts in our case. This just complicates the interface by adding even more buttons.
To be honest, I don’t think giving a heart = upvoting an idea. I think the voting plug-in could potentially save many ‘+1’ posts ([first example](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/introduce-folders-to-organise-podcasts/61/5)) with its very clear button & indicator.
And IMHO it doesn’t clutter the interface too much, plus it can be enabled only to the ‘feature request’ category.
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### Author:  [@tenkara\_vt](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/tenkara_vt)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/17 "2020-07-28T20:48:53Z")
That’s how it’s been used on my forum in the past, so I’d agree with you on this @keunes. But this isn’t my place, so whatever @ByteHamster wishes to use, I’m okay with that choice.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2022, 8:11am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/forum-templates-and-other-plug-ins/37/18 "2022-02-25T08:11:40Z")