Forums Feature Requests Thread

[Enhancement] Forums: thread templates for structured posts

Patrick Bass · May 24 · 24 · 1 Locked
[Feature Enhancement] [High Effort] [Deployed to Production]
🚀 OP May 24, 2026 7:52pm

Type: Enhancement

Priority: P2

Current state: No way for community admins to define post templates.

Proposed improvement: Allow admins to create templates per forum (e.g., bug report format, feature request format, introduction template) that pre-populate the composer when a member starts a new thread. Reduces low-quality posts and standardizes submissions.


Patrick Bass
@mobieus

🚀 May 26, 2026 1:31pm

Already implemented. Thread templates are fully built and deployed.

How it works:

  1. Go to any forum's Settings (Mod Tools > Settings)
  2. Scroll to Topic Templates section
  3. Fill in templates for Question, Announcement, or Showcase types
  4. When a member creates a new thread in that forum, they see type chips (Discussion, Question, Announcement, Showcase)
  5. Clicking a type pre-fills the composer body with the template

Schema: template_question, template_announcement, template_showcase columns on the forums table.

To activate: Configure templates in forum settings. Forums with no templates show the standard single-body composer.


Patrick Bass
@mobieus

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