Extensions Guide
This instance comes with 80+ extensions installed. Visit Admin Panel → Extensions to see and configure them all.
Here's how they're organized (rendered with the bundled Mermaid extension):
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Composer & posting
Flamoji (emoji)
Rich Text editor
Polls, Drafts, Upload
Mermaid (you're seeing it!)
PhotoSwipe (image lightbox)
Discussions & nav
Tags, Categories, Frontpage
Stickiest, Best Answer
Mobile Tab, Mobile Search
User experience
Gamification & rankings
Profile Cover, Bio, Messages
Reactions, Topic Rating
Moderation & admin
Hide, Lock, Suspend
Audit log, Recycle Bin, Diff
Backup, Log Viewer
Themes & looks
Avocado (try it!)
Colored, Modern Footer
Enabled by Default
Flarum core bundle: Tags, Likes, Mentions, Subscriptions, Lock, Sticky, Suspend, Markdown, BBCode, Emoji, Flags, Nicknames, Approval, Statistics, Extension Manager.
Composer & posting:
- PhotoSwipe — 📸 Full-screen tap-to-zoom image lightbox (try the Photo Gallery seed discussion)
- Flamoji — Visual emoji picker
- Drafts — Save post drafts
- Formatting — Autoimage, Autovideo, MediaEmbed
- Polls — Polls in discussions
- Upload — File and image attachments
- Rich Text — WYSIWYG-style editor
- BBCode Details — Expandable sections
- BBCode FA — Font Awesome icons in posts
- Mermaid — Render
mermaid fenced blocks as flowcharts/sequence diagrams (sample diagrams sprinkled throughout the seed discussions)
- Markdown Tables — Tables in posts
- Inline Audio — Audio player in posts
Discussions & navigation:
User experience:
Moderation & admin:
Other:
Installed but Not Enabled
Some extensions are installed but disabled by default — try them out!
Enable any of them from the Admin Panel → Extensions.
Try the Moderation Tools
This instance also ships with a 🛠️ Moderation Playground discussion (with users user1 through user5 arguing about moderation policy) and a dedicated moderator account (in the Mod group). Log in as moderator / password and practice locking, hiding, suspending, etc. on real-looking content. Combine with Log Viewer to see your moderator actions logged.
Installing More Extensions
The Extension Manager is enabled — search for and install additional extensions directly from the Admin Panel, no command line needed.
Feedback
Have ideas or found a bug? Visit our GitHub repository to open an issue or contribute.
