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:

Best Answer — Q&A-style best answers
Byobu — Private discussions
Categories — Category-based navigation
Follow Tags — Per-tag subscriptions
Frontpage — Pin a discussion as the homepage
Sitemap — XML sitemap for SEO
Synopsis — Discussion excerpts in the list
Discussion Views — View counters
Stickiest — Three-tier sticky system
External Links in New Tab — Outbound links open in a new tab
Last Post Avatar — Show the last poster's avatar in the discussion list
Menu Control — Customize the navigation menu
Mobile Search — Better mobile search experience
Mobile Tab — Bottom navigation on mobile

User experience:

Reactions — Post reactions beyond likes
Gamification — Voting and rankings
User Bio — Profile bio field
User Directory — Browsable user list
Ignore Users — Ignore other users
Profile Cover — Cover images on profiles (with GIF/WebP support)
MagicSlider — Image slider in posts
MagicRead — Reading progress / scroll tracking
Profile Messages — Public profile messages (XenForo-style)
Profile Views — Track and display profile view counts
Topic Rating — Rate discussions
Forum Widgets — Customizable widgets

Moderation & admin:

Audit — Audit log of admin and moderation actions
Moderator Notes — Per-user mod notes
Impersonate — Admin can log in as any user
Split — Split discussions
Merge Discussions — Merge discussions
Move Posts — Move posts between discussions
Diff — Post edit history
Recycle Bin — Restore deleted discussions/posts
Backup — On-demand database + storage backups from the admin panel
Log Viewer — View Flarum log files in the admin panel

Other:

Linguist — Customize translations
Links — Custom navigation links
Post Search — Search within posts
AutoVerify — Auto-confirms email on signup (no mail server needed)

Installed but Not Enabled

Some extensions are installed but disabled by default — try them out!

🥑 Avocado — Modern, polished theme with hero banner and rich customization (see the dedicated post!)
🎨 Colored — Colorful usernames by group
🦶 Modern Footer — Responsive footer
🔤 Font Sizer — Adjustable font sizes
🧰 MagicBB — Extended BBCode toolkit (extra composer icons)
👋 WelcomeBox — Customizable welcome banner
🃏 Discussion Cards — Card-style discussion list
💬 Shoutbox — Lightweight realtime chat box
🔑 Passkey — WebAuthn passwordless sign-in
🔐 OAuth — Social login framework (Google, Discord, GitHub, etc.)
🟡 Yandex OAuth — Yandex ID login (requires OAuth + setup)
🛡️ Yandex SmartCaptcha — Yandex CAPTCHA for signup
📄 Pages — Custom static pages
🖼️ Discussion Thumbnail — Thumbnails in discussion list
🤝 Terms — Terms of service acceptance
📣 Share Social — Social media sharing
🛡️ Anti Spam — Spam prevention

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.